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1Page one from comment by Kevin M. Burke, 

President and CEO, American Apparel & Footwear 

Association, March 26, 2012, Advance Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Public Comment; 

Rules and Regulations under the Wool Products 

Labeling Act of 1939; 77 FR 4498 (Jan. 30, 2012). 

USA, Inc. (the ‘‘Complainant’’) against 

Dependable Highway Express, Inc. 

(‘‘DHE’’) and Mediterranean Shipping 

Company, (USA) Inc., on behalf of 

Mediterranean Shipping Company, S.A. 

(‘‘MSC’’). Complainant states that the 

Commission has subject matter 

jurisdiction over the complaint under 

the Shipping Act of 1998, as amended, 

46 U.S.C. 40101 et seq. Complainant 

states that the Commission has personal 

jurisdiction over Respondent DHE as a 

party for the purposes of this proceeding 

when it acted directly or indirectly in 

conjunction with Respondent MSC in 

some instances and personal 

jurisdiction over Respondent MSC as an 

ocean common carrier as this term is 

defined at 46 U.S.C. 40102(18). 

Complainant ICL USA, Inc. is a 

corporation organized and existing 

under the laws of the New York with its 

principal place of business in Rosedale, 

New York and acts as a destination 

agent in the United States for various 

affiliated Commission registered nonvessel-operating common carriers. 

Complainant identifies Respondent 

DHE as a corporation organized and 

existing under the laws of California 

with a principal place of business in Los 

Angeles, California and as a Federal 

Motor Carrier Safety Administration 

motor carrier. 

Complainant identified Respondent 

MSC as an entity headquartered in 

Geneva, Switzerland with an agent in 

the United States located in New York 

and as a vessel-operating common 

carrier. 

Complainant alleges that the 

Respondents violated 46 U.S.C. 

41104(a)(2)(A) and 41102(c) and 46 CFR 

545.5, because Respondent DHE acted 

directly or indirectly in conjunction 

with Respondent MSC to assess 

unauthorized per diem related charges, 

including Admin Fees. 

An answer to the complaint must be 

filed with the Commission within 25 

days after the date of service. 

The full text of the complaint can be 

found in the Commission’s electronic 

Reading Room at https://www2.fmc.gov/ 

readingroom/proceeding/24-04/. This 

proceeding has been assigned to the 

Office of Administrative Law Judges. 

The initial decision of the presiding 

judge shall be issued by January 13, 

2025, and the final decision of the 

Commission shall be issued by July 28, 

2025. 

Alanna Beck, 

Federal Register Alternate Liaison Officer, 

Federal Maritime Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6730–02–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Trade 

Commission (‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) 

is seeking public comments on its 

proposal to extend for an additional 

three years the current Paperwork 

Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’) clearance for 

information collection requirements 

contained in the Commission’s rules 

and regulations under the Wool 

Products Labeling Act of 1939 (‘‘Wool 

Rules’’). That clearance expires on June 

30, 2024. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

March 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment online or on paper, by 

following the instructions in the 

Request for Comment part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Write ‘‘Wool Rules; PRA 

Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’ on 

your comment, and file your comment 

online at https://www.regulations.gov by 

following the instructions on the webbased form. If you prefer to file your 

comment on paper, mail your comment 

to the following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 

20580. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jock 

K. Chung, Attorney, Division of 

Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 

Mail Code CC–9528, 600 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580, 

(202) 326–2984. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Rules and 

Regulations under the Wool Products 

Labeling Act of 1939, 16 CFR part 300. 

OMB Control Number: 3084–0100. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Wool Products Labeling 

Act of 1939 (Wool Act) prohibits the 

misbranding of wool products. The 

Wool Rules establish disclosure 

requirements that assist consumers in 

making informed purchasing decisions 

and recordkeeping requirements that 

assist the Commission in enforcing the 

Rules. 

Likely Respondents: Manufacturers, 

importers, processors, and marketers of 

wool products. 

Frequency of Response: Third party 

disclosure; recordkeeping requirement. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

2,046,667 hours (160,000 recordkeeping 

hours + 1,886,667 disclosure hours). 

Recordkeeping: 160,000 hours (4,000 

wool firms incur an average 40 hours 

per firm). 

Disclosure: 1,886,667 hours (240,000 

hours for determining label content + 

480,000 hours to draft and order labels 

+ 1,166,667 hours to attach labels). 

Estimated Annual Cost Burden: 

$28,258,668.84 (solely relating to labor 

costs). 

As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the 

FTC is providing this opportunity for 

public comment before requesting that 

OMB extend the existing clearance for 

the information collection requirements 

contained in the Wool Rules. 

Burden Statement 

FTC staff’s burden estimates for the 

Wool Rules are based on data from the 

Department of Commerce’s Bureau of 

the Census, the International Trade 

Commission, the Department of Labor’s 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and 

data or other input from the main 

industry association, the American 

Apparel and Footwear Association 

(AAFA), and from SICCode.com, which 

specializes in the business classification 

of SIC (Standard Industrial 

Classification) and NAICS (North 

American Industry Classification 

System) codes for business 

identification, verification, and 

targeting. The AAFA, a national trade 

association which represents U.S. 

apparel, footwear and other sewn 

products companies and their suppliers, 

has stated that ‘‘[t]he use of labels on 

textiles and apparels is beneficial to 

consumers, manufacturers, and business 

in general as it allows for the necessary 

flow of information along the supply 

chain.’’ 1

The relevant information collection 

requirements in these rules and staff’s 

corresponding burden estimates follow. 

The estimates address the number of 

hours needed and the labor costs 

incurred to comply with the 

requirements. FTC staff believes that a 

significant portion of hours and labor 

costs currently attributable to burden 

below are time and financial resources 

usually and customarily incurred by 

persons in the course of their regular 

activity (e.g., industry participants 

already have and/or would have care 


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2 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2). 

3The wage rate for supervisors of office and 

administrative support workers is based on data 

through May 2022 from the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics 

Survey at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ 

ocwage.htm (released on April 25, 2023). 

4The wage rate for correspondence clerks is 

based on recent data from the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics 

Survey at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ 

ocwage.htm. 

5For imported products, the labels generally are 

attached in the country where the products are 

manufactured. According to information compiled 

by an industry trade association using data from the 

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade 

Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau, 

approximately 97.1% of apparel used in the United 

States is imported. With the remaining 2.9% 

attributable to U.S. production at an approximate 

domestic hourly wage of $12 to attach labels, staff 

has calculated a weighted average hourly wage of 

$6.52 per hour attributable to U.S. and foreign labor 

combined. 

6This estimate includes the wage rate for 

correspondence clerks. 

labels regardless of the Rules) and could 

be excluded from PRA-related burden.2

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

2,046,667 hours (160,000 recordkeeping 

hours + 1,886,667 disclosure hours). 

Recordkeeping: FTC staff estimates 

that approximately 4,000 wool firms are 

subject to the Wool Rules’ 

recordkeeping requirements. Based on 

an average annual burden of 40 hours 

per firm, the total recordkeeping burden 

is 160,000 hours. 

Disclosure: Approximately 8,000 wool 

firms, producing or importing about 

700,000,000 wool products annually, 

are subject to the Wool Rules’ disclosure 

requirements. FTC staff estimates the 

burden of determining label content to 

be 30 hours per year per firm, or a total 

of 240,000 hours, and the burden of 

drafting and ordering labels to be 60 

hours per firm per year, or a total of 

480,000 hours. FTC staff believes that 

the process of attaching labels is now 

fully automated and integrated into 

other production steps for about 40 

percent of all affected products. For the 

remaining 420,000,000 items (60 

percent of 700,000,000), the process is 

semi-automated and requires an average 

of approximately ten seconds per item, 

for a total of 1,166,667 hours per year. 

Thus, the total estimated annual burden 

for all firms is 1,886,667 hours (240,000 

hours for determining label content + 

480,000 hours to draft and order labels 

+ 1,166,667 hours to attach labels). FTC 

staff believes that any additional burden 

associated with advertising disclosure 

requirements would be minimal (less 

than 10,000 hours) and can be 

subsumed within the burden estimates 

set forth above. 

Estimated Annual Cost Burden: 

$28,258,668.84 (solely relating to labor 

costs). The chart below summarizes the 

total estimated costs. 

Task Hourly 

rate 

Burden 

hours Labor cost 

Determine label content ....................................................................................................................... $31.49 3 240,000 $7,557,600 

Draft and order labels .......................................................................................................................... 20.46 4 480,000 9,820,800 

Attach labels ........................................................................................................................................ 6.52 5 1,166,667 7,606,668.84 

Recordkeeping ..................................................................................................................................... 20.46 6 160,000 3,273,600 

Total .............................................................................................................................................. ................ .................... 28,258,668.84 

FTC staff believes that there are no 

current start-up costs or other capital 

costs associated with the Wool Rules. 

Because the labeling of wool products 

has been an integral part of the 

manufacturing process for decades, 

manufacturers have in place the capital 

equipment necessary to comply with the 

Rules. Based on knowledge of the 

industry, staff believes that much of the 

information required by the Wool Act 

and Rules would be included on the 

product label even absent their 

requirements. Similarly, recordkeeping 

and advertising disclosures are tasks 

performed in the ordinary course of 

business so that covered firms would 

incur no additional capital or other nonlabor costs as a result of the Rules. 

Request for Comment 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, the FTC invites comments on: 

(1) whether the disclosure and 

recordkeeping requirements are 

necessary, including whether the 

information will be practically useful; 

(2) the accuracy of our burden estimates, 

including whether the methodology and 

assumptions used are valid; (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(4) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information. 

For the FTC to consider a comment, 

we must receive it on or before March 

19, 2024. Your comment, including your 

name and your state, will be placed on 

the public record of this proceeding, 

including the https://

www.regulations.gov website. 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. Due to heightened security 

screening, postal mail addressed to the 

Commission will be subject to delay. We 

encourage you to submit your comments 

online through the https://

www.regulations.gov website. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Wool Rules; PRA Comment: FTC 

File No. P072108’’ on your comment 

and on the envelope, and mail it to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 

20580. 

Because your comment will become 

publicly available at https://

www.regulations.gov, you are solely 

responsible for making sure that your 

comment does not include any sensitive 

or confidential information. In 

particular, your comment should not 

include any sensitive personal 

information, such as your or anyone 

else’s Social Security number; date of 

birth; driver’s license number or other 

state identification number, or foreign 

country equivalent; passport number; 

financial account number; or credit or 

debit card number. You are also solely 

responsible for making sure that your 

comment does not include any sensitive 

health information, such as medical 

records or other individually 

identifiable health information. In 

addition, your comment should not 

include any ‘‘trade secret or any 

commercial or financial information 

which . . . is privileged or 

confidential’’—as provided by section 

6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and 

FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)— 

including, in particular, competitively 

sensitive information, such as costs, 

sales statistics, inventories, formulas, 

patterns, devices, manufacturing 

processes, or customer names. 

Comments containing material for 

which confidential treatment is 

requested must (1) be filed in paper 

form, (2) be clearly labeled 

‘‘Confidential,’’ and (3) comply with 

FTC Rule 4.9(c). In particular, the 

written request for confidential 

treatment that accompanies the 

comment must include the factual and 


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1On December 4, 2015, Congress amended the 

GLBA as part of the Fixing America’s Surface 

Transportation Act (‘‘FAST Act’’). This amendment, 

titled Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion (FAST 

Act, Pub. L. 114–94, section 75001) added new 

GLBA section 503(f). This subsection provides an 

exception under which financial institutions that 

meet certain conditions are not required to provide 

annual privacy notices to customers. Section 503(f) 

requires that to qualify for this exception, a 

financial institution must not share nonpublic 

personal information about customers except as 

described in certain statutory exceptions, under 

which sharing does not trigger a customer’s 

statutory right to opt out of the sharing. In addition, 

section 503(f)(2) requires that the financial 

institution must not have changed its policies and 

practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic 

personal information from those that the institution 

disclosed in the most recent privacy notice the 

customer received. On December 9, 2021, the 

Privacy Rule was amended at 16 CFR 313.5(e) to 

incorporate this exception. The amendments were 

effective January 10, 2022. 86 FR 70020 (Dec. 9, 

2021). 

legal basis for the request and must 

identify the specific portions of the 

comment to be withheld from the public 

record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your 

comment will be kept confidential only 

if the General Counsel grants your 

request in accordance with the law and 

the public interest. Once your comment 

has been posted publicly at 

www.regulations.gov, we cannot redact 

or remove your comment unless you 

submit a confidentiality request that 

meets the requirements for such 

treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and 

the General Counsel grants that request. 

The FTC Act and other laws that the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. The Commission will 

consider all timely and responsive 

public comments that it receives on or 

before March 19, 2024. For information 

on the Commission’s privacy policy, 

including routine uses permitted by the 

Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/ 

site-information/privacy-policy. 

Josephine Liu, 

Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Federal Trade Commission 

(FTC or Commission) is seeking public 

comment on its proposal to extend for 

an additional three years the current 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 

clearance for its information collection 

requirements in the Privacy of 

Consumer Financial Information Rule 

(Privacy Rule or Rule). The current 

clearance expires on January 31, 2024. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

February 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment online or on paper, by 

following the instructions in the 

Request for Comment part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. The reginfo.gov web 

link is a United States Government 

website produced by the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) and the 

General Services Administration (GSA). 

Under PRA requirements, OMB’s Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA) reviews Federal information 

collections. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Rimm, Attorney, Division of 

Privacy and Identity Protection, Bureau 

of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 

Commission, (202) 326–2277, jrimm@

ftc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Privacy of Consumer Financial 

Information (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act 

Privacy Rule), 16 CFR part 313. 

OMB Control Number: 3084–0121. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Private Sector: 

Businesses and other for-profit entities. 

Abstract: 

The Privacy Rule is designed to 

ensure that customers and consumers, 

subject to certain exceptions, will have 

access to the privacy policies of the 

covered financial institutions with 

which they conduct business—namely, 

motor vehicle dealers that do not 

routinely extend credit to consumers 

directly without assigning the credit to 

unaffiliated third parties (hereafter, 

‘‘motor vehicle dealers’’). As mandated 

by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act 

(‘‘GLBA’’), 15 U.S.C. 6801–6809, the 

Rule requires motor vehicle dealers to 

disclose to consumers: (1) initial notice 

of the financial institution’s privacy 

policy when establishing a customer 

relationship with a consumer and/or 

before sharing a consumer’s nonpublic 

personal information with certain 

nonaffiliated third parties; (2) notice of 

the consumer’s right to opt out of 

information sharing with such parties; 

(3) annual notice of the institution’s 

privacy policy to any continuing 

customer; 1 and (4) notice of changes in 

the institution’s practices on 

information sharing. These 

requirements are subject to the PRA. 

The Rule does not require 

recordkeeping. For PRA burden 

calculations, the FTC shares the PRA 

burden with the Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau (CFPB) for financial 

institutions over which both agencies 

have enforcement authority under the 

CFPB’s regulation corresponding to the 

Privacy Rule, titled Privacy of Consumer 

Financial Information (Regulation P), 12 

CFR part 1016, and attributes to itself 

the burden for all motor vehicle dealers. 

See 12 U.S.C. 5519. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

1,454,850. 

Estimated Annual Labor Costs: 

$35,820,366. 

Request for Comment 

On October 18, 2023, the FTC sought 

public comment on the information 

collection requirements associated with 

the Rule. 88 FR 71861. No germane 

comments were received. Pursuant to 

the OMB regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, 

that implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq., the FTC is providing this second 

opportunity for public comment while 

seeking OMB approval to renew the preexisting clearance for the Rule. 

Your comment—including your name 

and your state—will be placed on the 

public record of this proceeding. 

Because your comment will be made 

public, you are solely responsible for 

making sure that your comment does 

not include any sensitive personal 

information, such as anyone’s Social 

Security number; date of birth; driver’s 

license number or other state 

identification number, or foreign 

country equivalent; passport number; 

financial account number; or credit or 

debit card number. You are also solely 

responsible for making sure that your 

comment does not include any sensitive 

health information, such as medical 

records or other individually 

identifiable health information. In 

addition, your comment should not 

include any ‘‘trade secret or any 

commercial or financial information 

which . . . is privileged or 

confidential’’ —as provided by section 

6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and 

FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)— 

including in particular competitively 

sensitive information such as costs, 


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