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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. 

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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 

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4The estimated consumption of garments in the 

U.S. in 2012 was 19.4 billion. However, staff 

estimates that 1 billion garments are exempt from 

the Textile Act (i.e., any kind of headwear and 

garments made from something other than a textile 

fiber product, such as leather) or are subject to a 

special exemption for hosiery products sold in 

packages where the label information is contained 

on the package. Based on available data, staff 

estimates that an additional 3 billion household 

textile products (non-garments, such as sheets, 

towels, blankets) were consumed. However, 

approximately 0.6 billion of all of these garments 

and household products are subject to the Wool 

Act, not the Textile Act, because they contain some 

amount of wool. Thus, the estimated net total 

products subject to the Textile Act is 20.8 billion 

(19.4¥1 + 3 = 21.4¥0.6 = 20.8 billion). 

5 In 2007, Congress amended the Wool Act to 

explicitly define ‘‘cashmere’’ and certain terms used 

to describe superfine wool (e.g., ‘‘Super 80s,’’ 

‘‘Super 90s,’’ etc.). See Public Law 109–428. In 

2014, the Commission revised the Wool Rules to 

incorporate these amendments as well as to clarify 

and streamline certain provisions and to allow more 

flexibility in marketing wool products (e.g., 

allowing the use of certain hang-tags that do not 

disclose a product’s full fiber content). The 

Commission sought comment on the increased 

burden, if any, imposed by these changes but did 

not receive any comments asserting that the 

amendments would increase compliance costs. See 

79 FR 32157 (June 4, 2014). 

6The Commission revised the Textile Rules in 

2006 in response to amendments to the Textile Act. 

See 70 FR 73369 (Dec. 12, 2005). These 

amendments concerned the placement of labels on 

packages of certain types of socks and, therefore, do 

not place any additional disclosure burden on 

covered entities. In 2014, the Commission revised 

the Textile Rules to clarify and streamline certain 

provisions and to allow more flexibility in 

marketing textile products (e.g., allowing the use of 

certain hang-tags that do not disclose the product’s 

full fiber content). The Commission sought 

comment on the increased burden, if any, imposed 

by these changes but did not receive any comments 

asserting that the amendments would increase 

compliance costs. See 79 FR 18766 (Apr. 4, 2014). 

7For 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. 

and recordkeeping requirements that 

assist the Commission in enforcing the 

Rules. The Rules also contain a petition 

procedure for requesting the 

establishment of generic names for 

textile fibers. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

37,007,147 hours (782,600 

recordkeeping hours + 36,224,547 

disclosure hours). 

Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that 

approximately 12,040 textile firms are 

subject to the Textile Rules’ 

recordkeeping requirements. Based on 

an average burden of 65 hours per firm, 

the total recordkeeping burden is 

782,600 hours. 

Disclosure: Approximately 10,744 

textile firms, producing or importing 

about 20.8 billion textile fiber products 

annually, are subject to the Textile 

Rules’ disclosure requirements.4 Staff 

estimates the burden of determining 

label content to be 65 hours per year per 

firm, or a total of 698,360 hours and the 

burden of drafting and ordering labels to 

be 80 hours per firm per year, or a total 

of 859,520 hours.5 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 

12.48 billion items (60 percent of 20.8 

billion), the process is semi-automated 

and requires an average of 

approximately ten seconds per item, for 

a total of 34,666,667 hours per year. 

Thus, the total estimated annual 

disclosure burden for all firms is 

36,224,547 hours (698,360 hours to 

determine label content + 859,520 hours 

to draft and order labels + 34,666,667 

hours to attach labels).6 Staff believes 

that any additional burden associated 

with advertising disclosure 

requirements or the filing of generic 

fiber name petitions would be minimal 

(less than 10,000 hours) and can be 

subsumed within the burden estimates 

set forth above. 

Estimated annual cost burden: 

$239,778,909 (solely relating to labor 

costs). The chart below summarizes the 

total estimated costs. 

Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost 

Determine label content ............................................................................................................... $28.00 698,360 $19,554,080 

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

Attach labels ................................................................................................................................ 7 5.50 34,666,667 190,666,669 

Recordkeeping ............................................................................................................................. 18.00 782,600 14,086,800 

Total ...................................................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ 239,778,909 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs or other capital costs 

associated with the Textile Rules. 

Because the labeling of textile 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’ labeling requirements. Industry 

sources indicate that much of the 

information required by the Textile Act 

and Rules would be included on the 

product label even absent their 

requirements. Similarly, recordkeeping, 

invoicing, and advertising disclosures 

are tasks performed in the ordinary 

course of business; therefore, covered 

firms would incur no additional capital 

or other non-labor costs as a result of the 

Rules. 

Request for Comments 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. March 23, 2018. Write ‘‘Textile 

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/textilerulespra1 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 ‘‘Textile 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 


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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 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 

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 23, 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. 2018–00980 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

National Center for Health Statistics 

(NCHS), ICD–10 Coordination and 

Maintenance (C&M) Committee 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The CDC, National Center for 

Health Statistics (NCHS), Classifications 

and Public Health Data Standards Staff, 

announces the following meeting of the 

ICD–10 Coordination and Maintenance 

(C&M) Committee meeting. This 

meeting is open to the public, limited 

only by the space available. The meeting 

room accommodates approximately 240 

people. The meeting will be broadcast 

live via Webcast at http://www.cms.gov/ 

live/. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

March 6, 2018, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

EST and March 7, 2018x, 9:00 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. EST. 

ADDRESSES: Centers for Medicare and 

Medicaid Services (CMS) Auditorium, 

7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, 

Maryland 21244. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Traci Ramirez, Program Specialist, CDC, 

3311 Toledo Rd., Hyattsville, MD 20782; 

telephone (301) 458–4454; Email 

address TRamirez@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose: The ICD–10 Coordination 

and Maintenance (C&M) Committee is a 

public forum for the presentation of 

proposed modifications to the 

International Classification of Diseases, 

Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification 

and ICD–10 Procedure Coding System. 

Matters to be Considered: The agenda 

will include discussions on ICD–10–PCS 

Topics: 

Blalock-Taussig Shunt Occlusion 

Knee Replacement 

Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) 

Endovascular Cardiac Implant 

Combined Thoracic Arch Replacement 

and Thoracic Aorta Restriction 

Spinal Fusion with Radiolucent 

Hydroxyapatite 

Interbody Fusion Device 

Endovascular Intracranialy 

Thrombectomy 

Cell Suspension Autografting 

Trigard Cerebral Embolic Protection 

Endobronchial Coils 

Addenda and Key Updates 

ICD–10–CM Topics: 

Cyclic Vomiting 

Electronic Nicotine Delivery System 

(ENDS) 

Exertional Heat Stroke 

Intracranial Hypotension 

ICD–10–CM Addendum 

Agenda items are subject to change as 

priorities dictate. 

Security Considerations: Due to 

increased security requirements CMS 

has instituted stringent procedures for 

entrance into the building by nongovernment employees. Attendees will 

need to present valid government-issued 

picture identification, and sign-in at the 

security desk upon entering the 

building. 

Attendees who wish to attend the 

March 6–7, 2018, ICD–10–CM C&M 

meeting must submit their name and 

organization by March 1, 2018, for 

inclusion on the visitor list. This visitor 

list will be maintained at the front desk 

of the CMS building and used by the 

guards to admit visitors to the meeting. 

Participants who attended previous 

Coordination and Maintenance meetings 

will no longer be automatically added to 

the visitor list. You must request 

inclusion of your name prior to each 

meeting you wish attend. 

Please register to attend the meeting 

on-line at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ 

apps/events/. 

Please contact Mady Hue (410–786– 

4510) or Marilu.hue@cms.hhs.gov for 

questions about the registration process. 

Note: CMS and NCHS no longer provide 

paper copies of handouts for the meeting. 

Electronic copies of all meeting materials 

will be posted on the CMS and NCHS 

websites prior to the meeting at http://

www.cms.hhs.gov/ 

ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/03_

meetings.asp#TopOfPage and https://

www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm_

maintenance.htm. 

The Director, Management Analysis 

and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 


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