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loan holding company and/or to acquire 

the assets or the ownership of, control 

of, or the power to vote shares of a 

savings association and nonbanking 

companies owned by the savings and 

loan holding company, including the 

companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The application also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the HOLA (12 U.S.C. 1467a(e)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 10(c)(4)(B) of the 

HOLA (12 U.S.C. 1467a(c)(4)(B)). Unless 

otherwise noted, nonbanking activities 

will be conducted throughout the 

United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than February 15, 

2018. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of 

Philadelphia (William Spaniel, Senior 

Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105– 

1521. Comments can also 

be sent electronically to 

Comments.applications@phil.frb.org: 

1. William Penn Mutual Holding 

Company and William Penn Bancorp, 

Levittown, Pennsylvania; to acquire 

voting shares of Audubon Savings Bank, 

Audubon, New Jersey, and thereby 

merge it with William Penn Bank, 

Levittown, Pennsylvania. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 16, 2018. 

Ann E. Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00947 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications will also be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than February 14, 

2018. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 

(Robert L. Triplett III, Senior Vice 

President) 2200 North Pearl Street, 

Dallas, Texas 75201–2272: 

1. Independent Bank Group, Inc., 

McKinney, Texas; to acquire 100 percent 

of the voting shares of Integrity 

Bancshares, Inc., and indirectly acquire 

shares of Integrity Bank, SSB, both of 

Houston, Texas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 16, 2018. 

Ann E. Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00948 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT 

Board Member Meeting 

77 K Street NE, 10th Floor, Washington, DC 

20002, January 22, 2018, 8:30 a.m. (InPerson) 

Open Session 

1. Approval of the minutes for the 

December 18, 2017 Board Meeting 

2. Monthly Reports 

(a) Participant Activity Report 

(b) Legislative Report 

3. Quarterly Reports 

(c) Investment Policy 

(d) Budget Review 

(e) Audit Status 

4. IT Update 

5. Annual Expense Ratio Review 

6. Blended Retirement Update 

7. Vendor Financials 

Closed Session 

Information covered under 5 U.S.C. 

552b (c)(4) and (c)(9)(B). 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Kimberly Weaver, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 

Dated: January 16, 2018. 

Kimberly Weaver, 

Director, Office of External Affairs. 

Megan Grumbine, 

General Counsel, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01050 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 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 clearance 

for information collection requirements 

pertaining to the Commission’s 

administrative activities. That clearance 

expires on April 30, 2018, and consists 

of: (a) Applications to the Commission, 

including applications and notices 

contained in the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice (primarily Parts I, II, and IV); 

(b) the FTC’s consumer complaint 

systems; and (c) the FTC’s program 

evaluation activities. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 23, 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 ‘‘Paperwork Reduction 

Act: FTC File No. P072108’’ on your 

comment, and file your comment online 

at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ 

ftc/adminactivitiespra by following the 

instructions on the web-based 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, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 


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1Figures based on national median salaries, 

including bonuses and benefits, divided by a 2,080 

hour work year (52 weeks × 40 hours/week), for a 

‘‘Managing Attorney ($145,’’ ‘‘Attorney II,’’ 

‘‘Attorney III,’’ ‘‘Attorney IV,’’ and Attorney V’’ at 

www.salary.com. 

2The FTC received a mandate from a presidential 

executive order entitled ‘‘Improving the security of 

Consumer Financial Transactions’’ on October 17, 

2014 to create a complete service and complaint 

form for Identity Theft victims. 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

purposes specific to this Federal 

Register Notice: (a) Applications to the 

Commission: Gary Greenfield (Office of 

the General Counsel), 202–326–2753; (b) 

Complaint Systems: Nicholas 

Mastrocinque (Nick M.) and Ami 

Dziekan (Ami D.) (Bureau of Consumer 

Protection); Nick M., 202–326–3188 and 

Ami D., 202–326–2648; and (c) Program 

Evaluations: Jennifer Lee (Divestiture 

Orders), 202–326–2246; Katherine 

Ambrogi (Review of Competition 

Advocacy Program), 202–326–2205. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activities 

Under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521, 

federal agencies must get OMB approval 

for each collection of information they 

conduct, sponsor, or require. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ means 

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 pertaining to the 

Commission’s administrative activities 

(OMB Control Number 3084–0047). 

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. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

1,167,181 hours (110 + 1,166,994 + 72 

+ 5). 

Estimated annual labor cost: $25,240 

($14,300 + $0 + $10,440 + $500). 

Estimated annual non-labor/capital 

cost: $0. 

(a) Applications to the Commission, 

including applications and notices 

supported pursuant to the Commission’s 

Rules of Practice: 110 hours. 

Most applications to the Commission 

generally fall within the ‘‘law 

enforcement’’ exception to the PRA and 

are mostly found in Part III (Rules of 

Practice for Adjudicative Proceedings) 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. 

See 16 CFR 3.1–3.83. Nonetheless, there 

are various applications and notices to 

the Commission contained in other 

rules (generally in Parts I, II, and IV of 

the Commission’s Rule of Practice). For 

example, based on an averaging of 

results in recent years, staff estimates 

that the FTC annually receives 

approximately 30 requests for clearance 

submitted by former FTC employees in 

order to participate in certain matters 

and screening affidavits submitted by 

partners or legal or business associates 

of former employees pursuant to Rule 

4.1, 16 CFR 4.1. There are also 

procedures set out in Rule 4.11(e) for 

agency review of outside requests for 

Commission employee testimony, 

through compulsory process or 

otherwise, in cases or matters to which 

the agency is not a party. Rule 4.11(e) 

requires that a person who seeks such 

testimony submit a statement in support 

of the request. Staff estimates that 

agency personnel receive approximately 

15 requests per year. Cumulatively, the 

above, along with various sundry 

additional requests of sporadic nature 

for which the Commission also specifies 

particular information required of the 

applicant or requester, amount to about 

55 applications or notices per year. Staff 

estimates each respondent will incur, on 

average, approximately 2 hours of 

burden to submit an application or 

notice, resulting in a cumulative 110 

burden hours per year (55 applications 

or notices × 2 burden hours). 

Annual labor cost burden: Using the 

burden hours estimated above, staff 

estimates that the total annual labor 

cost, based on an estimated average of 

$130/hour for executives’ and attorneys’ 

wages, would be approximately $14,300 

(110 hours × $130).1 There are no 

capital, start-up, operation, 

maintenance, or other similar costs to 

respondents. 

(b) Complaint Systems: 1,166,994 

annual hours. 

Consumer Response Center 

Consumers can submit complaints 

about fraud and other practices to the 

FTC’s Consumer Response Center (CRC) 

by telephone or through the FTC’s 

website. Telephone complaints and 

inquiries to the FTC are answered both 

by FTC staff and contractors. These 

telephone counselors ask for the same 

information that consumers would enter 

on the applicable forms available on the 

FTC’s website. For telephone inquiries 

and complaints, the FTC staff estimates 

that it takes 6.1 minutes per call to 

gather information, and an estimated 4.8 

minutes for consumers to enter a 

complaint online. The burden estimate 

conservatively assumes that all of the 

phone call is devoted to collecting 

information from consumers, although 

frequently telephone counselors devote 

a small portion of the call to providing 

requested information to consumers. 

Complaints Concerning the National Do 

Not Call Registry 

To receive complaints from 

consumers of possible violations of the 

rules governing the National Do Not Call 

Registry, 16 CFR 310.4(b), the FTC 

maintains both an online form and a toll 

free hotline with automated voice 

response system. Consumer 

complainants must provide the phone 

number that was called, whether the 

call was prerecorded, and the date and 

time of the call. They may also provide 

either the name or telephone number of 

the company about which they are 

complaining, their name and address so 

they can be contacted for additional 

information, as well as for a brief 

comment regarding their complaint. In 

addition, complainants have the option 

of answering three yes-or-no questions 

to help law enforcement investigating 

complaints. The FTC staff estimates that 

the time required of consumer 

complainants is 3.0 minutes for phone 

complaints and 2.5 minutes for online 

complaints. 

Identity Theft 

To handle complaints about identity 

theft, the FTC must obtain more detailed 

information than is required of other 

complainants. Identity theft complaints 

generally require more information 

(such as a description of actions 

complainants have taken with credit 

bureaus, companies, and law 

enforcement, and the identification of 

multiple suspects) than general 

consumer complaints and fraud 

complaints.2 Moreover, since January 

2016, with the rollout of enhanced 

features within the FTC’s 

IdentityTheft.gov website, consumers 

can create a personal recovery plan and 

review various steps to implement it. 

For those that do, FTC staff estimates, 

based on contractor-provided 

information, that consumers will need 

15 minutes, on average, to complete the 


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3According to system-generated results, 84% of 

complainants using IdentityTheft.gov opt to create 

a personalized recovery plan. By extension, 16% do 

not. These apportionments inform the associated 

population figures that appear in the table below 

regarding identity theft complaints online. 

4The population estimates generally present 

marked increases from prior submissions for OMB 

clearance regarding information collected through 

these activities. While the FTC cannot definitively 

explain such pronounced increase in consumer 

visits to the FTC complaint site, the following are 

several possible factors: (1) A sharp rise in Do-NotCall violations (by extension, an associated increase 

in consumer complaints); (2) increased media 

coverage regarding the Do-Not-Call and identity 

theft portals; and (3) expanded FTC outreach 

regarding its ftccomplaintassistant.gov website. 

complaint form, create an 

IdentityTheft.gov account, and to review 

their personalized recovery plan. For 

those that do not, and based on 

contractor-provided information, FTC 

staff estimates that consumers will need 

8.5 minutes, on average, to complete the 

online complaint form.3

For consumers who call the CRC with 

an identity theft complaint, staff 

estimates that it will take 6 minutes per 

call to obtain identity theft-related 

information. A substantial portion of 

identity theft-related calls typically 

consists of counseling consumers on 

other steps they should consider taking 

to obtain relief (which may include 

directing consumers to a revised online 

complaint form). The time needed for 

counseling is excluded from the 

estimate. 

CRC Surveys 

Consumer customer satisfaction 

surveys give the agency information 

about the overall effectiveness and 

timeliness of the CRC. Subsets of 

consumers contacted throughout the 

year are questioned about specific 

aspects of CRC customer service. Each 

consumer surveyed is asked several 

questions chosen from a list prepared by 

staff. The questions are designed to 

elicit information from consumers about 

the overall effectiveness of the call 

center and online complaint intake. For 

the online survey, half of the questions 

ask consumers to rate CRC performance 

on a scale or require a yes-or-no 

response. The second half of the online 

survey asks more open-ended questions 

seeking a short answer. In addition, the 

CRC may survey a sample of consumers 

immediately after they file their 

complaints regarding the services they 

received. Staff estimates that each 

respondent will require 4.3 minutes to 

answer the questions during the phone 

survey and about 3.1 minutes for the 

online survey (approximately 20–30 

seconds per question). 

In addition, the FTC currently uses 

ForeSee, Inc. for online customer 

satisfaction surveys on 

www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov. It 

randomly selects consumers to take part 

in a brief survey to provide feedback 

about the website. Staff estimates the 

brief survey will require 6.5 minutes per 

respondent. This estimate and others 

relating to ForeSee surveys are included 

under ‘‘Misc. and fraud-related 

consumer complaints (Web chat)’’ in the 

table below. 

Consumer Sentinel Network Survey 

The FTC might conduct a brief survey 

of Consumer Sentinel Network 

satisfaction within the next three years. 

It will likely be an online survey with 

ten-minute duration. If so, estimated 

maximum burden would be 417 hours 

if every member completed it, given that 

the maximum possible Sentinel user 

base is 2,500 users. 

What follows is a tabular presentation 

of staff’s estimates of burden for these 

various collections of information, 

including the surveys. The figures for 

the online forms and consumer hotlines 

are an average of annualized volume for 

the respective programs, including both 

current and projected volumes over the 

3-year clearance period sought. The 

number of respondents for each activity 

has been rounded to the nearest 

thousand. The vast increase from the 

last estimate, 186,884 hours, to the 

current estimate, 1,166,994 hours, 

reflects strong consumer participation in 

the agency’s complaint collection 

process.4

Activity Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

minutes/ 

activity 

Total 

hours 

Misc. and fraud-related consumer complaints (phone) ............................................................... 973,690 6.1 98,992 

Misc. and fraud-related consumer complaints (online) ............................................................... 1,228,635 4.8 98,291 

Misc. and fraud-related consumer complaints (web chat) .......................................................... 175,926 6.5 19,058 

Do-Not-Call related consumer complaints (phone) ..................................................................... 1,795,155 3.0 89,758 

Do-Not-Call related consumer complaints (online) ..................................................................... 13,800,657 2.5 575,027 

Identity theft complaints (phone) ................................................................................................. 1,183,533 6.0 118,353 

Identity theft complaints (online) (those who create a personal recovery plan) ......................... 589,209 15.0 147,302 

Identity theft complaints (online) (those who complete online form but do not create a personal recovery plan) ................................................................................................................. 112,230 8.5 15,899 

CRC Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire(phone) ..................................................................... 20,084 4.3 1,439 

CRC Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire (online) .................................................................... 47,572 3.1 2,458 

Consumer Sentinel Network Survey ........................................................................................... 2,500 10 417 

Totals .................................................................................................................................... 19,929,191 ........................ 1,166,994 

Annual Labor Cost Burden: The cost 

per respondent should be negligible. 

Participation is voluntary and will not 

require any labor expenditures by 

respondents. There are no capital, startup, operation, maintenance, or other 

similar costs to the respondents. 

(c) Program Evaluations: 77 hours. 

Review of Divestiture Orders—72 

hours. 

The Commission issues, on average, 

approximately 15–17 orders in merger 

cases per year that require divestitures 

or other remedies. As a result of a 1999 

divestiture study and a more recent 

2015 remedy study authorized by OMB 

and conducted by the staffs of the 

Bureau of Competition (BC) and the 

Bureau of Economics, as well as ongoing 

experience, BC monitors these required 

remedies by interviewing 

representatives of the Commissionapproved buyers of the divested assets 

or other affected market participants 

within the first year after the divestiture 

is completed. 

BC staff interviews representatives of 

the buyers to ask whether all assets 

required to be divested were, in fact, 

divested; whether the buyer has used 

the divested assets to enter the market 

of concern to the Commission and, if so, 

the extent to which the buyer is 

participating in the market; whether the 

divestiture met the buyer’s expectations; 

and whether the buyer believes the 


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5See supra note 1 (attorney salary source data for 

‘‘Managing Attorney’’). 

divestiture has been successful. In a few 

cases, BC staff may also interview 

monitors, if appropriate. In cases in 

which a remedy other than a divestiture 

is required, staff will interview market 

participants such as competitors or 

customers to monitor the effectiveness 

of the remedy. In all these interviews, 

staff seeks to learn about pricing and 

other basic facts regarding competition 

in the markets of concern to the FTC. 

Participation by the buyers or other 

market participants is voluntary. Each 

responding company designates the 

company representative most likely to 

have the necessary information; 

typically, a company executive and an 

attorney represent the company. Each 

interview takes less than one hour to 

complete. BC staff further estimates that 

it takes each participant no more than 

one hour to prepare for the interview. 

Staff conservatively estimates that, for 

each interview of the responding 

company, two individuals (a company 

executive and an attorney) will devote 

two hours (one hour preparing and one 

hour participating) each to responding 

to questions for a total of four hours. 

Interviews of monitors typically involve 

only the monitor and take 

approximately one hour to complete 

with no more than one hour to prepare 

for the interview. Assuming that staff 

evaluates approximately 17 divestitures 

per year during the three-year clearance 

period, the total hours burden for the 

responding companies will be 

approximately 68 hours per year (17 

divestiture reviews × 4 hours for 

preparing and participating). Staff may 

include approximately 2 monitor 

interviews a year, which would add at 

most 4 hours (2 interviews × 2 hours for 

preparing and participating). 

Annual Labor Cost Burden: Using the 

burden hours estimated above, staff 

estimates that the total annual labor 

cost, based on a conservative estimated 

average of $145/hour for executives’ and 

attorneys’ wages, would be 

approximately $10,440 (72 hours × 

$145).5 There are no capital, start-up, 

operation, maintenance, or other similar 

costs to respondents. 

Review of Competition Advocacy 

Program—5 hours. 

The FTC’s competition advocacy 

program draws on the Commission’s 

expertise in competition and consumer 

protection matters to encourage state 

and federal legislators, agencies and 

regulatory officials, and courts to 

consider the effects of their decisions on 

competition and consumer welfare. The 

Commission and staff send 

approximately 20 letters to such 

decision makers annually regarding the 

likely effects of various bills and 

regulations. 

In the past, the Office of Policy 

Planning (‘‘OPP’’) has evaluated the 

effectiveness of these advocacy 

comments by surveying comment 

recipients and other relevant decision 

makers. OPP intends to continue this 

evaluation by sending a paper or 

electronic questionnaire to relevant 

parties within a year after sending an 

advocacy. 

Most survey questions ask the 

respondent to agree or disagree with a 

statement concerning the advocacy 

comment that they received. 

Specifically, these questions ask about 

the consideration, content, influence, 

and public effect of our comments. The 

questionnaire also provides respondents 

with an opportunity to provide 

additional remarks regarding the 

comments they received, advocacy 

comments in general, and the outcome 

of the matter. These survey results are 

also included in the FTC’s internal 

performance management indicators, 

and are used to guide the FTC’s 

selection and prioritization of future 

competition advocacy opportunities. 

OPP staff estimates that, on average, 

respondents will each require 15 

minutes or less to complete the 

questionnaire. Thus, staff estimates a 

cumulative total of 5 burden hours per 

year (15 minutes of burden per 

respondent × 20 respondents per year). 

OPP staff does not intend to conduct 

any follow-up activities that would 

involve the respondents’ participation. 

Annual Labor Cost Burden: OPP staff 

estimates a conservative hourly labor 

cost of $100 for the time of the survey 

participants (primarily state 

representatives and senators). Thus, 

staff estimates a total labor cost of $25 

for each response (15 minutes of burden 

at $100 per hour). Assuming 20 

respondents will complete the 

questionnaire on an annual basis, staff 

estimates cumulative yearly labor costs 

will approximate $500. There are no 

capital, start-up, operation, 

maintenance, or other similar costs to 

respondents. 

Request for Comments 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. For the FTC to consider your 

comment, we must receive it on or 

before March 23, 2018. Write 

‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act: 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 http://

www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. 

As a matter of discretion, the 

Commission tries to remove individuals’ 

home contact information from 

comments before placing them on the 

Commission website. 

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, or to send them to the 

Commission by courier or overnight 

service. To make sure that the 

Commission considers your online 

comment, you must file it at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ 

adminactivitiespra by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. 

When this Notice appears at http://

www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also 

may file a comment through that 

website. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act: 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, 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. 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 https://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 

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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). 

3 15 U.S.C. 70 et seq. 

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 23, 2018. 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. 

David C. Shonka, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00972 Filed 1–19–18; 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 Commission’s rules 

and regulations under the Textile Fiber 

Products Identification Act (Textile 

Rules). The clearance expires on April 

30, 2018. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 23, 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 ‘‘Textile Rules: FTC File 

No. P072108’’ on your comment, and 

file your comment online at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/

textilerulespra1 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 

Jock K. Chung, Attorney, Division of 

Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 

Mail Code CC–9528, 600 Pennsylvania 

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

326–2984. 

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 

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 rules and regulations 

under the Textile Fiber Products 

Identification Act (Textile Rules), 16 

CFR part 303 (OMB Control Number 

3084–0101). 

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 23, 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 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. 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 fiber 

content labels regardless of the rule(s)) 

and could be excluded from PRArelated burden.2

The Textile Fiber Products 

Identification Act (‘‘Textile Act’’) 3

prohibits the misbranding and false 

advertising of textile fiber products. The 

Textile Rules establish disclosure 

requirements that assist consumers in 

making informed purchasing decisions, 


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