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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 Comments 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. March 19, 2018. Write ‘‘Wool 

Rules: FTC File No. P072108’’ on your 

comment. Your comment—including 

your name and your state—will be 

placed on the public record of this 

proceeding, including, to the extent 

practicable, on the public Commission 

website, at https://www.ftc.gov/policy/ 

public-comments. Postal mail addressed 

to the Commission is subject to delay 

due to heightened security screening. As 

a result, we encourage you to submit 

your comments online. To make sure 

that the Commission considers your 

online comment, you must file it at 

https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ 

ftc/woolrulespra1 by following the 

instructions on the web based form. If 

this Notice appears at https://

www.regulations.gov, you also may file 

a comment through that website. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Wool Rules: FTC File No. 

P072108’’ on your comment and on the 

envelope, and mail your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex C), Washington, DC 

20580, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 

5th Floor, Suite 5610, Washington, DC 

20024. If possible, submit your paper 

comment to the Commission by courier 

or overnight service. 

Because your comment will be placed 

on the publicly accessible FTC website 

at www.ftc.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 be filed in paper form, 

must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’ 

and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). 

In particular, the written request for 

confidential treatment that accompanies 

the comment must include the factual 

and 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 on the public FTC 

website—as legally required by FTC 

Rule 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or 

remove your comment from the FTC 

website, 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. 

Visit the Commission website at 

https://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice. 

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, 2018. You can find 

more information, including routine 

uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in 

the Commission’s privacy policy, at 

https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/ 

privacy-policy. 

David C. Shonka, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00539 Filed 1–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission 

(FTC or Commission). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The information collection 

requirements described below will be 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA). The FTC seeks public 

comments on its proposal to extend for 

three years the current PRA clearances 

for information collection requirements 

contained in the Care Labeling of 

Textile Wearing Apparel and Certain 

Piece Goods As Amended (Care 

Labeling Rule). The clearance expires on 

April 30, 2018. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 19, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment online or on paper by 

following the instructions in the 

Request for Comments part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Write ‘‘Care Labeling Rule: FTC 

File No. P072108’’ on your comment, 

and file your comment online at https:// 

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ 

carelabelingrulepra1 by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. If 

you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, mail or deliver 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, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for copies of the collection of 

information and supporting 

documentation should be addressed to 

Hampton Newsome, Attorney, Division 

of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 

Mail Code CC–9528, 600 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 

326–2889. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activities 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

(PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, federal 

agencies must get OMB approval for 

each collection of information they 

conduct, sponsor, or require. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ means 


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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). 

2 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2). 

3The Care Labeling Rule imposes no specific 

recordkeeping requirements. Although the Rule 

requires manufacturers and importers to have 

reliable evidence to support the recommended care 

instructions, companies rely on current technical 

literature or past experience. 

4About 1 billion of the 19.4 billion garments 

produced annually are either not covered by the 

Care Labeling Rule (gloves, hats, caps, and leather, 

fur, plastic, or leather garments) or are subject to an 

exemption that allows care instructions to appear 

on packaging (hosiery). 

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 97.5% of apparel used in the United 

States is imported. With the remaining 2.5% 

attributable to U.S. production at an approximate 

domestic hourly wage of $11 to attach labels, staff 

has calculated a weighted average hourly wage of 

$5.50 per hour attributable to U.S. and foreign labor 

combined. The estimated percentage of imports 

supplied by particular countries is based on trade 

data for the year ending in September 2014 

compiled by the Office of Textiles and Apparel, 

International Trade Administration. Wages in major 

textile exporting countries, factored into the above 

hourly wage estimate, were based on 2012 data 

from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor 

Statistics. See Table 1.1 Indexes of hourly 

compensation costs in manufacturing, U.S. dollar 

basis, 1996–2012 (Index, U.S. = 100) available at: 

http://www.bls.gov/fls/#compensation. 

agency requests or requirements to 

submit reports, keep records, or provide 

information to a third party. 44 U.S.C. 

3502(3); 5 CFR 1320.3(c). As required by 

section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the 

FTC is providing this opportunity for 

public comment before requesting that 

OMB extend the existing PRA clearance 

for the information collection 

requirements associated with the 

Commission’s Care Labeling of Textile 

Wearing Apparel and Certain Piece 

Goods As Amended (Care Labeling 

Rule), 16 CFR 423 (OMB Control 

Number 3084–0103). 

The FTC invites comments on: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(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 

on those who are to respond. All 

comments must be received on or before 

March 19, 2018. 

Burden Estimates 

Staff’s burden estimates 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 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. 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 

labels regardless of the rule) and could 

be excluded from PRA-related burden.2

The Care Labeling Rule requires 

manufacturers and importers to attach a 

permanent care label to all covered 

textile clothing in order to assist 

consumers in making purchase 

decisions and in determining what 

method to use to clean their apparel. 

Also, manufacturers and importers of 

piece goods used to make textile 

clothing must provide the same care 

information on the end of each bolt or 

roll of fabric. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

32,600,587 hours (solely relating to 

disclosure 3). 

Staff estimates that approximately 

10,744 manufacturers or importers of 

textile apparel, producing about 18.4 

billion textile garments annually, are 

subject to the Rule’s disclosure 

requirements. The burden of developing 

proper care instructions may vary 

greatly among firms, primarily based on 

the number of different lines of textile 

garments introduced per year that 

require new or revised care instructions. 

Staff estimates the burden of 

determining care instructions to be 100 

hours each year per firm, for a 

cumulative total of 1,074,400 hours. 

Staff further estimates that the burden of 

drafting and ordering labels is 80 hours 

each year per firm, for a total of 859,520 

hours. Staff believes that the process of 

attaching labels is fully automated and 

integrated into other production steps 

for about 40 percent of the 

approximately 18.4 billion garments 

that are required to have care 

instructions on permanent labels.4 For 

the remaining 11.04 billion items (60 

percent of 18.4 billion), the process is 

semi-automated and requires an average 

of approximately ten seconds per item, 

for a total of 30,666,667 hours per year. 

Thus, the total estimated annual burden 

for all firms is 32,600,587 hours 

(1,074,400 hours to determine care 

instructions + 859,520 hours to draft 

and order labels + 30,666,666 hours to 

attach labels). 

Estimated annual cost burden: 

$214,221,229 (solely relating to labor 

costs). The chart below summarizes the 

total estimated costs. 

Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost 

Determine care instructions ......................................................................................................... $28.00 1,074,400 $30,083,200 

Draft and order labels .................................................................................................................. 18.00 859,520 15,471,360 

Attach labels ................................................................................................................................ 5 5.50 30,666,667 168,666,669 

Total ...................................................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ 214,221,229 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs or other capital costs 

associated with the Care Labeling Rule. 

Because the labeling of textile products 

has been an integral part of the 

manufacturing process for decades, 


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manufacturers have in place the capital 

equipment necessary to comply with the 

Rule’s labeling requirements. Based on 

knowledge of the industry, staff believes 

that much of the information required 

by the Rule would be included on the 

product label even absent those 

requirements. 

Request for Comments 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. March 19, 2018. Write ‘‘Care 

Labeling Rule: FTC File No. P072108’’ 

on your comment. Your comment— 

including your name and your state— 

will be placed on the public record of 

this proceeding, including, to the extent 

practicable, on the public Commission 

website, at https://www.ftc.gov/policy/ 

public-comments. Postal mail addressed 

to the Commission is subject to delay 

due to heightened security screening. As 

a result, we encourage you to submit 

your comments online. To make sure 

that the Commission considers your 

online comment, you must file it at 

https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ 

ftc/carelabelingrulepra1 by following 

the instructions on the web based form. 

If this Notice appears at https://

www.regulations.gov, you also may file 

a comment through that website. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Care Labeling Rule: FTC File No. 

P072108’’ on your comment and on the 

envelope, and mail your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex C), Washington, DC 

20580, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 

5th Floor, Suite 5610, Washington, DC 

20024. If possible, submit your paper 

comment to the Commission by courier 

or overnight service. 

Because your comment will be placed 

on the publicly accessible FTC website 

at www.ftc.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 be filed in paper form, 

must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’ 

and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). 

In particular, the written request for 

confidential treatment that accompanies 

the comment must include the factual 

and 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 on the public FTC 

website—as legally required by FTC 

Rule 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or 

remove your comment from the FTC 

website, 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, 2018. You can find 

more information, including routine 

uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in 

the Commission’s privacy policy, at 

https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/ 

privacy-policy. 

David C. Shonka, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00538 Filed 1–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 

OFFICE 

Request for Medicaid and CHIP 

Payment and Access Commission 

Nominations 

AGENCY: U.S. Government 

Accountability Office (GAO). 

ACTION: Request for letters of 

nomination and resumes. 

SUMMARY: The Children’s Health 

Insurance Program Reauthorization Act 

of 2009 (CHIPRA) established the 

Medicaid and CHIP Payment and 

Access Commission (MACPAC) to 

review Medicaid and CHIP access and 

payment policies and to advise Congress 

on issues affecting Medicaid and CHIP. 

CHIPRA gave the Comptroller General 

of the United States responsibility for 

appointing MACPAC’s members. GAO 

is now accepting nominations for 

MACPAC appointments that will be 

effective May 1, 2018. Letters of 

nomination and resumes should be 

submitted no later than February 5, 

2018 to ensure adequate opportunity for 

review and consideration of nominees 

prior to the appointment of new 

members. Nominations should be sent 

to the email or mailing address listed 

below. Acknowledgement of 

submissions will be provided within a 

week of submission. Please contact Will 

Black at (202) 512–6482 if you do not 

receive an acknowledgement. 

ADDRESSES: 

Email: MACPACappointments@

gao.gov. 

Mail: U.S. GAO, Attn: MACPAC 

Appointments, 441 G Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20548. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

GAO: Will Black, (202) 512–6482, 

BlackW@gao.gov, Office of Public 

Affairs, (202) 512–4800. 

Public Law 111–3, Section 506; 42 

U.S.C. 1396. 

Gene L. Dodaro, 

Comptroller General of the United States. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00117 Filed 1–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1610–02–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Board of Scientific Counselors, Office 

of Public Health Preparedness and 

Response, (BSC, OPHPR) 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

CDC announces the following meeting 

for the Board of Scientific Counselors, 

Office of Public Health Preparedness 

and Response, (BSC, OPHPR). This 

meeting is open to the public. The 

public is welcome to listen to the 

meeting via Adobe Connect. Preregistration is required by clicking the 

links below. WEB ID: (100 seats) https:// 


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