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11 This estimate is based on (http://www.bls.gov/ 

ncs/ncswage2007.htm) (National Compensation 

Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States 

2007, US Department of Labor released August 

2008, Bulletin 2704, Table 3 (‘‘Full-time civilian 

workers,’’ mean and median hourly wages) for the 

various managerial and technical staff support 

exemplified above. 

12 This estimate is derived from an analysis of a 

database of U.S. businesses based on NAICS codes 

for businesses in industries that typically use 

consumer reports from CRAs described in the Rule, 

which total 1,658,758 users of consumer reports 

subject to the FTC’s jurisdiction. 

13 Report to Congress Under Sections 318 and 319 

of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions of 

2003, Federal Trade Commission, 80 (Dec. 2004) 

available at (http://www.ftc.gov/reports/facta/ 

041209factarpt.pdf). 

14 Staff further assumes that this estimate is 

representative of new entrants in any given threeyear PRA clearance cycle. 

15 Based generally on the National Compensation 

Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 

2007, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor 

Statistics released August 2008, Bulletin 2704, 

Table 3 (‘‘Full-time civilian workers,’’ mean and 

median hourly wages), available at (http:// 

www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/sp/nctb0300.pdf). Clerical 

estimates are derived from the above source data, 

applying roughly a mid-range of mean hourly rates 

for potentially applicable clerical types, e.g., 

computer operators, data entry and information 

processing workers. 

assumes that for all entities, 

professional technical personnel and/or 

management personnel will create and 

implement the Program, prepare the 

annual report, and train employees, at 

an hourly rate of $35.00.11

Based on the above estimates and 

assumptions, the total annual labor cost 

for all categories of covered entities 

under the Red Flags and Card Issuer 

Rules for Section 114 is $188,206,480 

[4,165,421 hours + 1,000,251 hours + 

211,656 hours) x $35.00)]. 

B. Section 315 - The Address 

Discrepancy Rule 

As discussed above, the Rule’s 

implementation of section 315 provides 

guidance on reasonable policies and 

procedures that a user of consumer 

reports must employ when a user 

receives a notice of address discrepancy 

from a CRA. Given the broad scope of 

users of consumer reports, it is difficult 

to determine with precision the number 

of users of consumer reports that are 

subject to the FTC’s jurisdiction. As 

noted above, there are numerous small 

businesses under the FTC’s jurisdiction, 

and there is no formal way to track 

them; moreover, as a whole, the entities 

under the FTC’s jurisdiction are so 

varied that there are no general sources 

that provide a record of their existence. 

Nonetheless, FTC staff estimates that the 

Rule’s implementation of section 315 

affects approximately 1.66 million users 

of consumer reports subject to the FTC’s 

jurisdiction.12 Approximately 10,000 of 

these users will, in the course of their 

usual and customary business practices, 

have to furnish to CRAs an address 

confirmation upon notice of a 

discrepancy.13

FTC staff estimates that the average 

annual information collection burden 

during the three-year period for which 

OMB clearance is sought will be 

776,334 hours. The estimated burden is 

$12,421,344. 

1. Estimated Hours Burden 

Although section 315 created a new 

obligation for CRAs to provide a notice 

of address discrepancy to users of 

consumer reports, prior to the FACT Act 

enactment, users of consumer reports 

could compare the address on the 

consumer report to the address provided 

by the consumer and discern for 

themselves any discrepancy. As a result, 

FTC staff believes that many users of 

consumer reports have developed 

methods of reconciling address 

discrepancies, and the following 

estimates represent the incremental 

amount of time users of consumer 

reports may require to develop and 

comply with the policies and 

procedures for when they receive a 

notice of address discrepancy. 

Due to the varied nature of the entities 

under the FTC’s jurisdiction, it is 

difficult to determine precisely the 

appropriate burden estimates. 

Nonetheless, FTC staff estimates that it 

would require an infrequent user of 

consumer reports no more than 16 

minutes to develop and comply with the 

policies and procedures that it will 

employ when it receives a notice of 

address discrepancy, while a frequent 

user might require one hour. Similarly, 

FTC staff estimates that, during the 

remaining two years of clearance, it may 

take an infrequent user no more than 

one minute to comply with the policies 

and procedures it will employ when it 

receives a notice of address discrepancy, 

while a frequent user might require 45 

minutes. Taking into account these 

extremes, FTC staff estimates that, 

during the first year, it will take users 

of consumer reports under the 

jurisdiction of the FTC an average of 38 

minutes [the midrange between 16 

minutes and 60 minutes] to develop and 

comply with the policies and 

procedures that they will employ when 

they receive a notice of address 

discrepancy. FTC staff also estimates 

that the average recurring burden for 

users of consumer reports to comply 

with the Rule will be 23 minutes [the 

midrange between one minute and 45 

minutes]. 

Thus, for these 1.66 million entities, 

the average annual burden for each of 

them to perform these collective tasks 

will be 28 minutes [(38 + 23 + 23) ÷ 3]; 

cumulatively, 774,667 hours. 

For the estimated 10,000 users of 

consumer reports that will additionally 

have to furnish to CRAs an address 

confirmation upon notice of a 

discrepancy, staff estimates that these 

entities will require 30 minutes to 

develop related policies and procedures. 

But, these 10,000 affected entities14

likely will have automated the process 

of furnishing the correct address in the 

first year of a three-year PRA clearance 

cycle. Thus, allowing for 30 minutes in 

the first year, with no annual recurring 

burden in the second and third years of 

clearance, yields an average annual 

burden of 10 minutes per entity to 

furnish a correct address to a CRA, for 

a total of 1,667 hours. 

2. Estimated Cost Burden 

FTC staff assumes that the policies 

and procedures for compliance with the 

address discrepancy part of the Rule 

will be set up by administrative support 

personnel at an hourly rate of $16.15

Based on the above estimates and 

assumptions, the total annual labor cost 

for the two categories of burden under 

section 315 is $12,421,344 [(774,667 

hours + 1,667 hours) x $16.00]. 

C. Burden Totals for Sections 114 and 

315 

Cumulatively, then, rounded to the 

nearest thousand, estimated burden is 

6,154,000 hours (5,377,328 hours for 

section 114 and 776,334 hours for 

section 315) and $200,628,000 

($188,206,480 and $12,421,344, 

respectively) in associated labor cost. 

David C. Shonka, 

Acting General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E9–9425 Filed 4–23–09: 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–S 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Public Workshop: Business 

Opportunity Rule An FTC Workshop 

Analyzing Business Opportunity 

Disclosure Form and Other Proposed 

Changes to the Business Opportunity 

Rule 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission 

ACTION: Notice announcing public 

workshop, revised disclosure document, 

and request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Trade 

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

is planning to hold a public workshop 

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1 The comment must be accompanied by an 

explicit request for confidential treatment, 

including the factual and legal basis for the request, 

and must identify the specific portions of the 

comment to be withheld from the public record. 

The request will be granted or denied by the 

Commission’s General Counsel, consistent with 

applicable law and the public interest. See FTC 

Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). 

relating to the March 26, 2008 Revised 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(‘‘RNPR’’) that announced proposed 

changes to the trade regulation rule 

entitled ‘‘Business Opportunity Rule,’’ 

16 CFR Part 437 (the ‘‘Rule’’). The 

workshop will explore issues relating to 

the effectiveness of the proposed revised 

Business Opportunities Disclosure Form 

attached to this Notice as a means of 

conveying material information to 

prospective purchasers of business 

opportunities. The workshop is also 

anticipated to develop the record related 

to certain issues raised in the comments 

received in response to the RNPR. 

DATES: The public workshop will be 

held on June 1, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. 

until 5:00 p.m. at the FTC’s Satellite 

Building Conference Center, located at 

601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, 

Washington, DC. Requests to participate 

as a panelist must be received by May 

4, 2009. Any written comments related 

to the agenda topics and the issues 

discussed by the panelists at the 

workshop must be received by June 15, 

2009. The workshop is open to the 

public, and there is no fee for 

attendance. For admittance to the 

Conference Center, all attendees will be 

required to show valid photo 

identification such as a driver’s license. 

ADDRESSES: Registration information 

can be found in Section III of this 

Notice. In order to facilitate the 

organization of comments and requests 

to participate, comments and requests to 

be panelists should respectively refer to 

‘‘Business Opportunity Rule 

Workshop—Comment, Project No. 

P084405’’ or to ‘‘Business Opportunity 

Rule Workshop—Request to Participate, 

Project No. P084405.’’ A comment or 

request to participate as a panelist may 

be filed electronically or in paper form. 

Please note that your comment— 

including your name and your state— 

will be placed on the public record of 

this proceeding, including on the 

publicly accessible FTC Website, at 

(http://www.ftc.gov/os/ 

publiccomments.shtm). 

Because comments will be made 

public, they should not include any 

sensitive personal information, such as 

an individual’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. Comments 

also should not include any sensitive 

health information, such as medical 

records or other individually 

identifiable health information. In 

addition, comments should not include 

any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or 

financial information which is obtained 

from any person and which is privileged 

or confidential. . . .,’’ as provided in 

Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade 

Commission Act (‘‘FTC Act’’), 15 U.S.C. 

46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 

4.10(a)(2). 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), 16 CFR 4.9(c).1

Because paper mail addressed to the 

FTC is subject to delay due to 

heightened security screening, please 

consider submitting your comments and 

requests to participate in electronic 

form. Comments filed in electronic form 

should be submitted by using the 

following weblink: (https:// 

secure.commentworks.com/ftcbusinessopportunityworkshop) (and 

following the instructions on the webbased form). To ensure that the 

Commission considers an electronic 

comment, you must file it on the webbased form at the weblink (https:// 

secure.commentworks.com/ftcbusinessopportunityworkshop). If this 

Notice appears at (http:// 

www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp), 

you may also file an electronic comment 

through that website. The Commission 

will consider all comments that 

regulations.gov forwards to it. Requests 

to participate filed in an electronic form 

should be submitted by e-mail to: 

businessopportunityworkshop@ftc.gov. 

You may also visit the FTC Website at 

http://www.ftc.gov to read the Notice 

and the news release describing it. 

A comment or request to participate 

as a panelist filed in paper form should 

include the ‘‘Business Opportunity Rule 

Workshop—Comment, Project No. 

P084405’’ or ‘‘Business Opportunity 

Rule Workshop—Request to Participate, 

Project No. P084405’’ reference both in 

the text and on the envelope, and 

should be mailed or delivered, with two 

complete copies, to the following 

address: Federal Trade Commission, 

Office of the Secretary, Room H-135 

(Annex S), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW, Washington, DC 20580. The FTC is 

requesting that any comment filed in 

paper form be sent by courier or 

overnight service, if possible, because 

U.S. postal mail in the Washington area 

and at the Commission is subject to 

delay due to heightened security 

precautions. 

The FTC Act and other laws 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, 

whether filed in paper or electronic 

form. Comments received will be 

available to the public on the FTC 

Website, to the extent practicable, at 

(http://www.ftc.gov/os/ 

publiccomments.shtm). As a matter of 

discretion, the Commission makes every 

effort to remove home contact 

information for individuals from the 

public comments it receives before 

placing those comments on the FTC 

Website. More information, including 

routine uses permitted by the Privacy 

Act, may be found in the FTC’s privacy 

policy, at (http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/ 

privacy.shtm). 

Comments on any proposed filing, 

recordkeeping, or disclosure 

requirements that are subject to 

paperwork burden review under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act should 

additionally be submitted to: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(‘‘OMB’’), Attention: Desk Officer for 

Federal Trade Commission. Comments 

should be submitted via facsimile to 

(202) 395-5167 because U.S. postal mail 

at the OMB is subject to delays due to 

heightened security precautions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Benway (202) 326-2024, 

Division of Marketing Practices, Bureau 

of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 

Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW, Room H-286, Washington, DC 

20580. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

As part of the Commission’s overall 

policy of periodic review of its trade 

regulation rules, the Commission, in 

1995, commenced a regulatory review of 

its Trade Regulation Rule (‘‘TRR’’) 

entitled ‘‘Disclosure Requirements and 

Prohibitions Concerning Franchising 

and Business Opportunity Ventures’’ 

(the ‘‘Franchise Rule’’). This Rule, as 

originally promulgated, covered, in a 

single Code of Federal Regulations part, 

two distinct types of offerings: 

franchises and business opportunity 

ventures. Many of the very familiar 

national fast-food restaurants and 

hotels, for example, are franchises; 

business opportunity ventures include 

vending machine routes, rack display 

operations, and medical billing 

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2 62 FR at 9115 (Feb. 28, 1997). 

3 Business Opportunity Rule NPR, 71 FR 19054 

(Apr. 12, 2006). 

4 Multi-level marketing is one form of direct 

selling, and refers to a business model in which a 

company distributes products through a network of 

distributors who earn income from their own retail 

sales of the product and from retail sales made by 

the distributors’ direct and indirect recruits. 

Because they earn a commission from the sales their 

recruits make, each member in the MLM network 

has an incentive to continue recruiting additional 

sales representatives into their ‘‘down lines.’’ See 

Peter J. Vander Nat & William W. Keep, Marketing 

Fraud: An Approach to Differentiating Multilevel 

Marketing from Pyramid Schemes, 21 J. Pub. Pol’y 

& Marketing (Spring 2002) at 140. 

5 The Commission also received approximately 

187 comments, primarily from individual 

consumers or consumer groups, in favor of the 

IPBOR. Only a handful of comments from nonMLM companies and industry groups expressed 

concerns about obligations that the IPBOR would 

impose upon them. 6 Business Opportunity Rule Revised NPR, 73 FR 

16110 (Mar. 26, 2008) 7 The RNPR did not exempt MLMs from coverage 

of the RPBOR. Instead, it narrowed the scope of the 

IPBOR by significantly revising Section 437.1 by 

redefining the term ‘‘business opportunity.’’ The 

RNPR noted that while some MLMs do engage in 

unfair or deceptive acts or practices, including the 

operation of pyramid schemes or unsubstantiated 

earnings claims that cause consumer harm, 

commenters generally agreed that the IPBOR’s 

required disclosures would not help consumers 

identify a fraudulent pyramid scheme. In the RNPR, 

the Commission stated its belief that consumer 

harm flowing from deceptive practices in the MLM 

industry could be more effectively addressed 

through the use of Section 5 of the FTC Act. 

8 In response to the RNPR, the Commission 

received no public comments about the language or 

the layout of the proposed form. 

ventures. Business opportunity 

ventures, unlike franchises, typically do 

not involve the right to use a trademark 

or other commercial symbol, and 

generally do not involve a long-term 

reciprocal relationship between the 

seller and the purchaser of the venture. 

Nevertheless, these ventures typically 

do call for the business opportunity 

seller to provide purchasers with 

locations for machines or equipment or 

with clients. 

Much of the information revealed by 

the regulatory review focused on the 

differences between franchises and 

business opportunity ventures, and the 

distinct regulatory challenges presented 

by these two types of offerings. One 

result of the periodic review was that, 

based on the record amassed during the 

review proceeding, the Commission 

determined a need to create two 

separate rules—one covering the sale of 

franchises and one to govern the sale of 

non-franchise business opportunities. 

Accordingly, in February 1997, the 

Commission published an Advance 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

soliciting comment on several proposed 

Rule modifications, including the 

creation of a separate TRR governing the 

sale of business opportunities.2

In 2006, the Commission published 

an Initial Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (‘‘Initial NPR’’) announcing 

its intention to proceed with its 

proposal for a separate Business 

Opportunity Rule (‘‘Initial Proposed 

Business Opportunity Rule’’ or 

‘‘IPBOR’’).3 In response to the Initial 

NPR, the Commission received more 

than 17,000 comments, the 

overwhelming majority of which came 

from the multi-level marketing (‘‘MLM’’) 

industry.4 MLM companies, their 

representatives and trade associations, 

as well as individual participants in 

various MLM plans, expressed grave 

concern about the burdens the IPBOR 

would impose on them, and urged the 

Commission to narrow the scope of the 

IPBOR, to implement various safe 

harbor provisions, and/or to reduce the 

required disclosures.5

On March 30, 2007, while the 

Business Opportunity proceeding was 

underway, the Commission published 

the Amended Franchise Rule that 

separated the Franchise Rule into two 

distinct CFR parts—part 436, governing 

the sales of business format franchises, 

and a new part 437, the Business 

Opportunity Rule, governing the sales of 

non-franchise business opportunities. 

Part 437 is identical to the original 

Franchise Rule, with all of the 

definitional elements and references 

regarding business format franchising 

deleted. Part 437 continues to govern 

sales of non-franchise business 

opportunities, pending completion of 

the ongoing proceedings to amend it. 

After an extensive analysis of the 

public comments received in response 

to the Initial NPR and a reassessment of 

its law enforcement experience, the 

FTC, on March 26, 2008, issued a 

Revised Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

(‘‘RNPR’’) that proposed a Revised 

Proposed Business Opportunity Rule 

(‘‘RPBOR’’)6 more narrowly tailored 

than the IPBOR. In addition to minor 

wording and punctuation changes to 

improve clarity, the RPBOR modified 

the IPBOR in six significant ways: 

∑ It narrowed the scope of the 

proposed Rule to avoid broadly 

sweeping in sellers of multi-level 

marketing opportunities,7 while 

retaining coverage of those business 

opportunities sellers historically 

covered by the FTC’s original Franchise 

Rule (and by the FTC’s current Business 

Opportunity Rule), as well as coverage 

of sellers of work-at-home schemes; 

∑ It cured a potential overbreadth 

problem that may have inadvertently 

swept in companies using traditional 

product distribution arrangements; 

∑ It eliminated the previously 

proposed requirement that a covered 

business opportunity seller disclose the 

number of cancellation and refund 

requests it received; 

∑ It eliminated the proposed 

requirement to disclose litigation 

history of certain sales personnel (while 

retaining the requirement to disclose 

litigation history of the business 

opportunity seller, its principals, 

officers, directors, and sales managers, 

as well as any individual who occupies 

a position or performs a function similar 

to an officer, director, or sales manager); 

∑ It added a proposed requirement to 

include a citation to the Rule in the title 

of the required disclosure document; 

and 

∑ It added a proposed prohibition 

against misrepresenting that the 

government or any law forbids 

providing business opportunity 

prospects with a list of prior purchasers. 

The RNPR sought public comment on 

these proposed changes and on 

alternatives the Commission could 

consider. 

The RNPR also included a proposed 

one-page Business Opportunity 

Disclosure Form (‘‘proposed Disclosure 

Form’’) that sellers of business 

opportunities would be required to 

provide to prospective purchasers. 

Section 437.2 of the RPBOR would 

require ‘‘sellers’’ of covered business 

opportunities to provide potential 

purchasers with the proposed 

Disclosure Form at least seven calendar 

days before they sign a contract or pay 

any money toward a purchase. The 

proposed Disclosure Form is intended 

to provide prospective purchasers with 

material information with which to 

make an informed decision about the 

potential business opportunity, 

including information about earnings 

claims, legal actions, existence of 

cancellation or refund policies, and 

references. The RNPR announced that 

the Commission had engaged a 

consultant with expertise in document 

design and comprehension to evaluate 

the proposed Disclosure Form to ensure 

that it adequately conveyed to 

consumers information material to the 

prospective business opportunity, and 

to determine whether the overall 

presentation of the information in the 

proposed Disclosure Form could be 

improved to make it more useful and 

understandable. The RNPR also invited 

public comment on the proposed 

Disclosure Form.8 Following 

publication of the RNPR, the consultant 

conducted extensive consumer testing 

of the proposed Disclosure Form that 

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9 The version of the revised proposed Disclosure 

Form that was tested by the expert inadvertently 

omitted the phrase ‘‘or pay any money’’ from the 

conclusion of the penultimate sentence of the 

revised proposed Disclosure Form. The expert 

engaged by the FTC determined that this omission 

had no effect on the results of its testing. 

resulted in substantial improvement to 

both the layout and the wording of the 

form, e.g., the consultant suggested 

revising the preamble to clarify that the 

information on the proposed Disclosure 

Form relates specifically to the business 

opportunity that the reader is being 

offered, and suggested adding a note 

below the signature line stating that the 

FTC requires that the business 

opportunity seller give the reader at 

least seven calendar days before asking 

him or her to sign a purchase contract. 

The format and language of the revised 

proposed Business Opportunity 

Disclosure Form (‘‘revised proposed 

Disclosure Form’’) is set forth in 

Appendix A to this Notice.9 More 

information about the testing of the 

proposed Disclosure Form may be found 

at: (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/ 

bizopps/disclosure-form-report.pdf). 

II. Issues for Discussion at the 

Workshop 

The primary focus of the workshop 

will be on the efficacy of the revised 

proposed Disclosure Form to convey 

critical material information to 

prospective purchasers of business 

opportunities. The workshop will 

explore the form as a whole, as well as 

specific aspects or sections of the 

form—for example, whether the 

required disclosures regarding legal 

actions and cancellation or refund 

policies are adequate. The workshop 

also will provide participants with an 

opportunity to discuss some general 

issues raised in the comments received 

in response to the RNPR, including: the 

implications of the RPBOR for 

businesses and consumers; whether 

certain definitions proposed in the 

RNPR accomplish the Commission’s 

purposes stated in the RNPR; and the 

RPBOR’s compatibility with existing 

federal and state policies. A more 

detailed agenda will be published at a 

later date, in advance of the scheduled 

workshop. 

III. Public Participation Information 

A. Registration Information 

The public workshop will consist of 

a roundtable discussion on the issues 

described above by those individuals 

selected to be panelists. A court reporter 

will be present to record the 

proceedings so that a transcription can 

be made for the public record. The FTC 

will accept pre-registration for this 

workshop. Pre-registration is not 

necessary to attend, but is encouraged 

so that staff may better plan this event. 

To pre-register, please email your name 

and affiliation to 

businessopportunityworkshop@ftc.gov. 

When you pre-register, the FTC collects 

your name, affiliation, and e-mail 

address. We will use this information to 

estimate how many people will attend 

and better understand the likely 

audience for the workshop, and will 

dispose of it following the workshop. 

We may use your e-mail address to 

contact you with information about the 

workshop. The FTC Act and other laws 

the Commission administers permit the 

collection of this contact information to 

consider and use for the above 

purposes. Under the Freedom of 

Information Act or other laws, we may 

be required to disclose the information 

you provide to outside organizations. 

For additional information, including 

routine uses permitted by the Privacy 

Act, see the Commission’s privacy 

policy at (http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/ 

privacy.shtm). 

B. Requests to Participate as a Panelist 

The workshop will consist of a 

roundtable format with participation by 

panelists selected by the FTC staff. 

Other attendees also will have an 

opportunity to comment and ask 

questions. Requests to participate as a 

panelist must be received on or before 

May 4, 2009. Persons selected as 

panelists will be notified on or before 

May 15, 2009. 

Requests to participate as a panelist at 

the workshop should be submitted 

electronically to 

businessopportunityworkshop@ftc.gov, 

or, if mailed, should be submitted in the 

manner detailed in the ADDRESSES

section of this Notice, and should be 

captioned ‘‘Business Opportunity 

Workshop—Request to Participate, 

Project No. P084405.’’ Parties are asked 

to include in their requests a brief 

statement setting forth their expertise in 

or knowledge of the issues on which the 

workshop will focus as well as their 

contact information, including a phone 

number, facsimile number, and e-mail 

address (if available), to enable the FTC 

to notify them if they are selected. For 

requests filed in paper form, an original 

and two copies of each document 

should be submitted to Federal Trade 

Commission/Office of the Secretary, 

Room 135-H (Annex S), 600 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, 

DC, 20580, and must be received on or 

before May 4, 2009. The Commission 

will also accept requests to participate 

received at the following e-mail address: 

businessopportunityworkshop@ftc.gov. 

C. Written and Electronic Comments 

The submission of comments is not 

required for participation in the 

workshop. If a person wishes to submit 

written or electronic comments about 

the topics to be discussed at the 

workshop, such comments should be 

filed as prescribed in the ADDRESSES

section above, and must be received on 

or before June 15, 2009. To read the 

FTC’s policy on how it handles the 

information you submit, please visit 

(http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.shtm). 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark 

Secretary 

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–S 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 3090–0014] 

Information Collection; Standard Form 

(SF) 123, Transfer Order-Surplus 

Personal Property and Continuation 

Sheet 

AGENCY: Federal Supply Service, GSA. 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments 

regarding a renewal to an existing OMB 

clearance. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the General Services 

Administration will be submitting to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) a request to review and approve 

a renewal of a currently approved 

information collection requirement 

regarding transfer order-surplus 

personal property and continuation 

sheet. 

Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary and whether it 

will have practical utility; whether our 

estimate of the public burden of this 

collection of information is accurate, 

and based on valid assumptions and 

methodology; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before: 

June 23, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William F. Kemp, Federal Supply 

Services, GSA at telephone (703) 605– 

2879 or via e-mail to 

william.kemp@gsa.gov. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding 

this burden estimate or any other aspect 

of this collection of information, 

including suggestions for reducing this 

burden to the Regulatory Secretariat 

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