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11 The blended rate is based upon 20 percent for 

attorney services, 60 percent for skilled clerical 

workers, and 20 percent for management time. 

12 See note 10. 

13 The blended rate is 15 percent for attorney 

services, 40 percent for skilled clerical workers, 25 

percent for computer programming, and 20 percent 

for management time. 

14 The blended rate is 40 percent for computer 

programming, 10 percent for attorney services, 30 

percent for skilled clerical workers, and 20 percent 

for management time. 

15 Six percent is determined by an approximate 

halving of the above-noted 11% reduction staff has 

applied to its prior estimate of the number of 

vendors (see note 5). As in past clearance requests 

for this Rule, it is halved on the assumption that 

pay-per-call services do not account for any more 

than half of all telephone-billed purchases. 

estimated percentage of advertising both 

directed to individuals under 18 and 

relating to certain other pay-per-call 

services to 20 percent of overall pay-percall services. FTC staff estimated that 

each disclosure mandated by the Rule 

requires approximately one hour of 

compliance time. 

The total estimated annual cost of 

these burden hours is $3,316,140 

applying a blended wage rate of $69/ 

hour.11

(b) The Rule’s preamble disclosure. 

To comply with the Act, the Pay-PerCall Rule also requires that every payper-call service be preceded by a free 

preamble and that four different 

disclosures be made in each preamble. 

Additionally, preambles to sweepstakes 

pay-per-call services and services that 

offer information on federal programs 

must provide additional disclosures. 

Each preamble need only be prepared 

one time, unless the cost or other 

information is changed. There is no 

additional burden on the vendor to 

make the disclosures for each telephone 

call, because the preambles are taped 

and play automatically when a caller 

dials the pay-per-call number. 

In its 2006 submission for renewed 

OMB clearance under the PRA, FTC 

staff estimated that there were 

approximately 45,864 pay-per-call 

services required to make disclosures in 

the preamble to the pay-per-call service, 

at an average burden of 10 hours for 

each preamble, resulting in a total 

burden estimate of 458,640 hours. As 

noted above, staff now believes that the 

industry has had at least an 11 percent 

reduction in size since the FTC’s 

immediately prior pursuit of renewed 

clearance. Accordingly, staff now 

estimates that there are no more than 

40,819 advertised pay-per-call services. 

As with advertising disclosures, 

preambles for certain pay-per-call 

services require additional preamble 

disclosures. Consistent with the 

estimates of advertised pay-per-call 

services discussed above, staff estimates 

that an additional 20 percent of all such 

pay-per-call services (8,164) relating to 

certain types of pay-per-call services 

would require such additional 

disclosures.12 On further reflection, staff 

now estimates that it would require no 

more than one hour to draft each type 

of disclosure because the disclosures 

applicable to the preamble closely 

approximate in content and volume the 

advertising disclosures discussed above. 

Accordingly, staff estimates a total of 

48,983 burden hours (40,819 + 8,164) to 

comply with these requirements. At one 

hour each, cumulative labor cost 

associated with these disclosures is 

$3,379,827, using a blended wage rate of 

$69/hour (i.e., similar to the blended 

rate used for advertising disclosures). 

(c) Telephone-billed charges in billing 

statements. Section 308.5(j) of the Rule, 

16 CFR 308.5(j), requires that vendors 

ensure that certain disclosures appear 

on each billing statement that contains 

a charge for a call to a pay-per-call 

service. Because these disclosures 

appear on telephone bills already 

generated by the local telephone 

companies, and because the carriers are 

already subject to nearly identical 

requirements pursuant to the FCC’s 

rules, FTC staff estimated that the 

burden to comply would be minimal. At 

most, the burden on the vendor would 

be limited to spot checking telephone 

bills to ensure that the charges are 

displayed in the manner required by the 

Rule. 

As it had in the 2006 PRA 

submission, FTC staff estimates that 

only 10 percent of vendors (1,350) 

would monitor billing statements in this 

manner and that it would take 12 hours 

per year to conduct such checks. Using 

the total estimated number of vendors 

noted above, this results in a total of 

16,020 burden hours. The total annual 

cost would be at most $997,245, using 

a blended rate of $62.25/hour.13

(d) Dispute resolution procedures in 

billing statements. This disclosure 

requirement is set forth in 16 CFR 

308.7(c). The blended rate being used 

for these disclosures is $53.5/hour.14

FTC staff previously estimated that the 

billing entities would spend 

approximately 5 hours each to review, 

revise, and provide the disclosures on 

an annual basis. The estimated hour 

burden for the annual notice component 

of this requirement is 6,250 burden 

hours (based on 1,250 possible billing 

entities each requiring 5 hours each), or 

a total cost of $334,375. 

(e) Further disclosures related to 

consumers reporting a billing error 

As in the 2006 PRA submission for 

this Rule, FTC staff estimates that the 

incremental disclosure obligations 

related to consumers reporting a billing 

error under section 308.7(d) requires, on 

average, about one hour per each billing 

error. Previously, staff projected that 

approximately 5 percent of an estimated 

49,980,000 calls made to pay-per-call 

services each year involves such a 

billing error. The staff is now reducing 

its prior estimate of the number of those 

calls by 6 percent15 (46,981,200 calls) to 

reflect recent changes in the amount of 

pay-per-call services and their billing. 

Assuming the same apportionment (5 

percent) of overall calls to pay-per-call 

services, this amounts to 2,349,060 

hours, cumulatively. Applying the 

$53.5/hour blended wage rate, the 

estimated annual cost is $125,674,710 

annually. 

David C. Shonka, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E9–8665 Filed 4–14–09: 8:45 am] 

[BILLING CODE 6750–01–S] 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–09–0040] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–5960 and 

send comments to Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

CDC Acting Reports Clearance Officer, 

1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, 

GA 30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

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on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

NCEH/ATSDR Exposure 

Investigations (EIs) [OMB NO: 0923– 

0040]—Extension—The National Center 

for Environmental Health (NCEH), and 

the Agency for Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

This is a brief summary of a joint 

clearance between the NCEH and 

ATSDR, (hereafter ATSDR will 

represent both ATSDR and NCEH). 

ATSDR is mandated pursuant to the 

1980 Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act (CERCLA) and its 1986 

Amendments, the Superfund 

Amendments and Reauthorization Act 

(SARA) to prevent or mitigate adverse 

human health effects and diminished 

quality of life resulting from the 

exposure to hazardous substances in the 

environment. EIs are an approach 

developed by ATSDR that employs 

targeted biologic (e.g., urine, blood, hair 

samples) and environmental (e.g., air, 

water, soil, or food) sampling to 

determine whether people are or have 

been exposed to unusual levels of 

pollutants at specific locations (e.g., 

where people live, spend leisure time, 

or anywhere they might come into 

contact with contaminants under 

investigation). After a chemical release 

or suspected release into the 

environment, ATSDR’s EIs are used by 

public health professionals, 

environmental risk managers, and other 

decision makers to determine if current 

conditions warrant intervention 

strategies to minimize or eliminate 

human exposure. EIs are usually 

requested by officials of a state health 

agency, county health departments, the 

Environmental Protection Agency, the 

general public, and ATSDR staff. 

ATSDR has been conducting EIs since 

1995 throughout the United States. All 

of ATSDR’s biomedical assessments and 

some of the environmental 

investigations involve participants. 

Participation is completely voluntary. 

To assist in interpreting the sampling 

results, a survey questionnaire 

appropriate to the specific contaminant 

is administered to participants. ATSDR 

collects contact information (e.g., name, 

address, phone number) to provide the 

participant with their individual results. 

Name and address information are 

broken into nine separate questions 

(data fields) for computer entry. General 

information, which includes height, 

weight, age, race, gender, etc., is also 

collected primarily on biomedical 

investigations to assist with results 

interpretation. General information can 

account for approximately 28 questions 

per investigation. Some of this 

information is investigation-specific; not 

all of this data is collected for every 

investigation. ATSDR is seeking an 

extension of our approved set of 61 

general information questions. 

ATSDR also collects information on 

other possible confounding sources of 

chemical(s) exposure such as medicines 

taken, foods eaten, hobbies, jobs, etc. In 

addition, ATSDR asks questions on 

recreational or occupational activities 

that could increase a participant’s 

exposure potential. That information 

represents an individual’s exposure 

history. To cover those broad categories, 

ATSDR is seeking an extension to our 

approved sets of topical questions. Of 

these, we use approximately 12–15 

questions about the pertinent 

environmental exposures per 

investigation. This number can vary 

depending on the number of chemicals 

being investigated, the route of exposure 

(e.g., breathing, eating, touching), and 

number of other sources of the 

chemical(s) (e.g., products used, jobs). 

Typically, the number of participants 

in an individual EI ranges from 10 to 50. 

Questionnaires are generally needed in 

less than half of the EIs (approximately 

10–15 per year). 

The subject matter for the complete 

set of topical questions includes the 

following: (1) Media specific which 

includes: Air (indoor/outdoor); water 

(water source and plumbing); soil, and 

food (gardening, fish, game, domestic 

animals (e.g., chickens)). (2) Other 

sources such as: Occupations; hobbies; 

household chemical uses and house 

construction characteristics; lifestyle 

(e.g., smoking); medicines and/or health 

conditions, and foods. 

There are no costs to respondents 

other than their time. 

ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS

Respondents Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total burden 

(in hours) 

Exposure Investigation Participants ................................................................ 750 1 30/60 375 

Dated: April 8, 2009. 

Maryam I. Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–8537 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection: 

Comment Request 

In compliance with the requirement 

for opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects 

(section 3506(c)(2)(A) of Title 44, United 

States Code, as amended by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. 

L. 104–13), the Health Resources and 

Services Administration (HRSA) 

publishes periodic summaries of 

proposed projects being developed for 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 

information on the proposed project or 

to obtain a copy of the data collection 

plans and draft instruments, e-mail 

paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA 

Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443– 

1129. 

Comments are invited on: (a) The 

proposed collection of information for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the agency; (b) the accuracy of the 


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