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1 64 Fed. Reg. 59888 (1999).

2See 16 CFR § 312.10; 64 Fed. Reg. at 59906–

59908, 59915.

3See 16 CFR § 312.10(b)(1); 64 Fed. Reg. at 59915.

4See 16 CFR § 312.10(b)(2); 64 Fed. Reg. at 59915. 5See 16 CFR § 312.10(b)(3); 64 Fed. Reg. at 59915.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Children’s Online Privacy Protection

Safe Harbor Proposed Self-Regulatory

Guidelines; Children’s Advertising

Review Unit of the Council of Better

Business Bureaus, Inc.

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice of proposed ‘‘safe

harbor’’ guidelines and request for

public comment.

SUMMARY: The Federal Trade

Commission publishes this notice and

request for public comment concerning

proposed self-regulatory guidelines

submitted by the Children’s Advertising

Review Unit (‘‘CARU’’) of the Council of

Better Business Bureaus, Inc. under the

safe harbor provision of the Children’s

Online Privacy Protection Rule, 16 CFR.

§ 312.10.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before May 30, 2000.

Comments will be posted on the

Commission’s website: http://

www.ftc.gov.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be submitted to: Secretary, Federal

Trade Commission, Room H–159, 600

Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20580. The

Commission requests that commenters

submit the original plus five copies, if

feasible. To enable prompt review and

public access, comments also should be

submitted, if possible, in electronic

form, on either a 51⁄4 or a 31⁄2 inch

computer disk, with a disk label stating

the name of the commenter and the

name and version of the word

processing program used to create the

document. (Programs based on DOS or

Windows are preferred. Files from other

operating systems should be submitted

in ASCII text format.) Alternatively, the

Commission will accept comments

submitted to the following e-mail

address, safeharbor@ftc.gov. Individual

members of the public filing comments

need not submit multiple copies or

comments in electronic form. All

submissions should be captioned:

‘‘CARU Safe Harbor Proposal—

Comment, P004504.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Loren G. Thompson, (202) 326–2049,

Abbe Goldstein, (202) 326–3423, or

Karen J. Mandel, (202) 326–2491,

Division of Advertising Practices,

Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal

Trade Commission, 601 Pennsylvania

Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Section A. Background

On October 20, 1999, the Commission

issued its final Rule 1 pursuant to the

Children’s Online Privacy Protection

Act, 15 U.S.C. 6501, et seq. The Rule

requires certain web site operators to

post privacy policies, provide notice,

and obtain parental consent prior to

collecting, using, or disseminating

personal information from children. The

Rule contains a ‘‘safe harbor’’ provision

enabling industry groups or others to

submit self-regulatory guidelines that

would implement the protections of the

Rule to the Commission for approval.2

Pursuant to Section 312.10 of the

Rule, CARU has submitted proposed

self-regulatory guidelines to the

Commission for approval. The full text

of the proposed guidelines is available

on the Commission’s website,

www.ftc.gov.

Section B. Questions on the Proposed

Guidelines

The Commission is seeking comment

on various aspects of the proposed

guidelines, and is particularly interested

in receiving comment on the questions

that follow. These questions are

designed to assist the public and should

not be construed as a limitation on the

issues on which public comment may

be submitted. Responses to these

questions should cite the number and

subsection of the questions being

answered. For all comments submitted,

please provide any relevant data,

statistics, or any other evidence, upon

which those comments are based.

1. Please provide comment on any or

all of the provisions in the proposed

guidelines. For each provision

commented on please describe (a) The

impact of the provision(s) (including

any benefits and costs), if any, and (b)

what alternatives, if any, CARU should

consider, as well as the costs and

benefits of those alternatives.

2. Do the provisions of the proposed

guidelines governing operators’

information practices provide ‘‘the same

or greater protections for children’’ as

those contained in Sections 312.2–312.8

of the Rule? 3 Where possible, please

cite the relevant sections of both the

Rule and the proposed guidelines.

3. Are the mechanisms used to assess

operators’ compliance with the

guidelines effective? 4 If not, please

describe (a) How the proposed

guidelines could be modified to satisfy

the Rule’s requirements, and (b) the

costs and benefits of those

modifications.

4. Are the incentives for operators’

compliance with the guidelines

effective? 5 If not, please describe (a)

How the proposed guidelines could be

modified to satisfy the Rule’s

requirements, and (b) the costs and

benefits of those modifications.

5. Do the guidelines provide adequate

means for resolving consumer

complaints? If not, please describe (a)

How the proposed guidelines could be

modified to resolve consumer

complaints adequately, and (b) the costs

and benefits of those modifications.

or

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submission for OMB

Review; Comment Request

The Department of Health and Human

Services, Office of the Secretary

publishes a list of information

collections it has submitted to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance in compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR 1320.5.

The following are those information

collections recently submitted to OMB.

1. HHS Acquisition Regulations—

HHSAR Subpart 315 Solicitation and

Receipt of Proposals and Quotations—

0990–0139—Extension with no

change—Subpart 315.4 is needed to

ensure consistency in all Departmental

solicitations and to ensure that all

solicitations describe all of the

information which an offeror would

need to submit an acceptable proposal.

Respondents: State or local

governments, Businesses or other for

profit organizations, non-profit

institutions, small businesses; Total

Number of Respondents: 6,645:

Frequency of Response: one time;

Average Burden per Response: 2 hours;

Estimated Annual Burden: 13,290

hours.

OMB Desk Officer. Allison Eydt.

Copies of the information collection

packages listed above can be obtained

by calling the OS Reports Clearance

Officer on (202) 690–6207. Written