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1Non-labor (e.g., capital/other start-up) costs are 

generally subsumed in activities otherwise 

undertaken in the ordinary course of business (e.g., 

business records from which only existing 

information must be reported to the Commission, 

pay-per-call advertisements or audiotext to which 

cost or other disclosures are added, etc.). To the 

extent that entities incur operating or maintenance 

expenses, or purchase outside services to satisfy the 

Rule’s requirements, staff believe those expenses 

are also included in (or, if contracted out, would be 

comparable to) the annual burden hour and cost 

estimates provided below (where such costs are 

labor-related), or are otherwise included in the 

ordinary cost of doing business (regarding non-labor 

costs). 

(d) Metrics 

4. FY22 Budget Review and Approval 

5. Participant Survey Report 

Closed Session 

6. Information covered under 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(9)(B) and 552b(c)(10). 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b (e)(1). 

Dated: August 12, 2021. 

Dharmesh Vashee, 

General Counsel, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

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BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Federal Trade Commission 

(FTC or Commission) is seeking public 

comment on its proposal to extend for 

an additional three years the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

clearance for information collection 

requirements contained in the rules and 

regulations under the Pay-Per-Call Rule 

(Rule). That clearance expires on 

November 30, 2021. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 18, 2021. 

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 ‘‘Pay-Per-Call Rule; PRA 

Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’ on 

your comment, and file your comment 

online at https://www.regulations.gov by 

following the instructions on the webbased 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, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: P. 

Connell McNulty, Attorney, Division of 

Marketing Practices, Bureau of 

Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 

Commission, Mail Code CC–8528, 600 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20580, (202) 326–2061. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Trade Regulation Rule Pursuant 

to the Telephone Disclosure and 

Dispute Resolution Act of 1992 (‘‘PayPer-Call Rule’’), 16 CFR part 308. 

OMB Control Number: 3084–0102. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The existing reporting and 

disclosure requirements of the Pay-PerCall Rule are mandated by the 

Telephone Disclosure and Dispute 

Resolution Act of 1992 (TDDRA) to help 

prevent unfair and deceptive acts and 

practices in the advertising and 

operation of pay-per-call services and in 

the collection of charges for telephonebilled purchases. The information 

obtained by the Commission pursuant to 

the reporting requirement is used for 

law enforcement purposes. The 

disclosure requirements ensure that 

consumers are told about the costs of 

using a pay-per-call service, that they 

will not be liable for unauthorized nontoll charges on their telephone bills, and 

how to deal with disputes about 

telephone-billed purchases. 

Likely Respondents: 

telecommunications common carriers 

(subject to the reporting requirement 

only, unless acting as a billing entity), 

information providers (vendors) offering 

one or more pay-per-call services or 

programs, and billing entities. 

Estimated Annual Hours Burden: 

1,029,570 hours (18 + 1,029,552) 

Reporting: 18 hours for reporting by 

common carriers 

Disclosure: 1,029,552 [(21,240 hours for 

advertising by vendors + 21,732 hours 

for preamble disclosure which applies 

to every pay-per-call service + 7,080 

burden hours for telephone-billed 

charges in billing statements (applies 

to vendors; applies to common 

carriers if acting as billing entity) + 

11,500 burden hours for dispute 

resolution procedures in billing 

statements (applies to billing entities) 

+ 968,000 hours for disclosures 

related to consumers reporting a 

billing error (applies to billing 

entities)] 

Estimated annual cost burden: 

$50,456,136 (solely relating to labor 

costs).1

As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) 

of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the 

FTC is providing this opportunity for 

public comment before requesting that 

OMB extend the existing clearance for 

the information collection requirements 

contained in the Commission’s Pay-PerCall Rule. 

Burden Estimates 

Brief Description of the Need for and 

Proposed Use of the Information 

The existing reporting and disclosure 

requirements are mandated by the 

TDDRA to help prevent unfair and 

deceptive acts and practices in the 

advertising and operation of pay-percall services and in the collection of 

charges for telephone-billed purchases. 

The information obtained by the 

Commission pursuant to the reporting 

requirement is used for law enforcement 

purposes. The disclosure requirements 

ensure that consumers are told about the 

costs of using a pay-per-call service, that 

they will not be liable for unauthorized 

non-toll charges on their telephone bills, 

and how to deal with disputes about 

telephone-billed purchases. 

Likely Respondents and Their Estimated 

Number 

Respondents are telecommunications 

common carriers (subject to the 

reporting requirement only, unless 

acting as a billing entity), information 

providers (vendors) offering one or more 

pay-per-call services or programs, and 

billing entities. Staff estimates that there 

are 6 common carriers, approximately 

5,900 vendors, and approximately 2,300 

possible billing entities. The FTC seeks 

public comment or data on these 

estimates and those stated below. 

Estimated annual reporting and 

disclosure burden: 1,029,570 hours; 

$50,456,136 in associated labor costs. 

The burden hour estimate for each 

reporting and disclosure requirement 

has been multiplied by a ‘‘blended’’ 

wage rate (expressed in dollars per 

hour), based on the particular skill mix 

needed to carry out that requirement, to 

determine its total annual cost. The 

blended rate calculations are based on 

the following skill categories and 

average wage rates and/or labor costs: 

$123/hour for professional (attorney) 

services; $20/hour for skilled clerical 

workers; $46/hour for computer 

programmers; and $60/hour for 

management time. These figures are 

averages, based on the most currently 

available Bureau of Labor Statistics 

(‘‘BLS’’) cost figures posted online. FTC 


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staff calculated labor costs by applying 

appropriate hourly cost figures to the 

burden hours discussed further below. 

(1) Reporting Burden (Applies to 

Common Carriers) 

The Rule provides that common 

carriers must make available to the 

Commission, upon written request, any 

records and financial information 

maintained by such carrier relating to 

the arrangements between the carrier 

and any vendor or service bureau (other 

than for the provision of local exchange 

service). See 16 CFR 308.6. Staff 

believes that the resulting burden on 

this segment of the industry will be 

minimal, since OMB’s definition of 

‘‘burden’’ for PRA purposes excludes 

any business effort that would be 

expended regardless of a regulatory 

requirement. 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2). 

Because this reporting requirement 

permits staff to seek information limited 

to that which is already maintained by 

the carriers, the only burden would be 

the time an entity expends to compile 

and provide the information to the 

Commission. Because the Commission 

has seldom needed to rely on this 

requirement, staff estimates the annual 

time for reporting at 3 hours per entity. 

In obtaining OMB clearance for this 

reporting requirement in 2015, staff 

estimated a total reporting burden of 18 

hours. For 2021, staff is maintaining the 

total burden estimate of 18 hours, based 

on an average estimate of 3 hours 

expended by 6 common carriers. Using 

a $56/hour blended wage rate, the FTC 

now estimates an annual cost of $1,008. 

(2) Disclosure Burden 

(a) Advertising (applies to vendors). 

FTC staff estimates that the annual 

burden on the industry for the Rule’s 

advertising disclosure requirements is 

21,240 hours. The estimate reflects the 

burden on approximately 5,900 vendors 

who must make cost disclosures for all 

pay-per-call services and additional 

disclosures if the advertisement is (a) 

directed to individuals under 18 or (b) 

for certain pay-per-call services. 

Because of continued industry changes 

and the fact that the Commission has 

seldom needed to rely on this 

requirement, staff is retaining the 

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 estimates that 

each disclosure mandated by the Rule 

requires approximately one hour of 

compliance time. The total estimated 

annual cost of these burden hours is 

$1,040,760, applying a blended wage 

rate of $49/hour. 

(b) The Rule’s preamble disclosure 

(applies to every pay-per-call service). 

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. 

Staff believes that the industry has 

had at least a 12 percent reduction in 

size since 2015 (when there were an 

estimated 20,580 pay-per-call services). 

Accordingly, staff now estimates that 

there are no more than 18,110 

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 20 percent of all such pay-per-call 

services (3,622) relating to certain types 

of pay-per-call services would require 

such additional disclosures. Staff 

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 

21,732 burden hours (18,110 + 3,622) to 

comply with these requirements. At one 

hour each, cumulative labor cost 

associated with these disclosures is 

$1,064,868, using a blended wage rate of 

$49/hour (i.e., the same blended rate 

used for advertising disclosures). 

(c) Telephone-billed charges in billing 

statements (applies to vendors; applies 

to common carriers if acting as billing 

entity). 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 2015 PRA 

submission, FTC staff estimates that 

only 10 percent of vendors 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 

(5,900), this results in a total of 7,080 

burden hours. The total annual cost 

would be at most $354,000, using a 

blended rate of $50/hour. 

(d) Dispute resolution procedures in 

billing statements (applies to billing 

entities). This disclosure requirement is 

set forth in 16 CFR 308.7(c). The 

blended rate used for these disclosures 

is $49/hour. 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 

11,500 burden hours (based on 2,300 

possible billing entities each requiring 5 

hours), or a total cost of $563,500. 

(e) Further disclosures related to 

consumers reporting a billing error 

(applies to billing entities). 

As in the 2015 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 

22,001,000 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 approximately 12 percent (to 

19,360,880 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 968,000 hours, 

cumulatively. Applying the $49/hour 

blended wage rate, the estimated annual 

cost is $47,432,000. 

Request for Comments 

Pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, 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 


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burden of maintaining records and 

providing disclosures to consumers. All 

comments must be received on or before 

October 18, 2021. 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. For the FTC to consider your 

comment, we must receive it on or 

before October 18, 2021. Write ‘‘Pay-PerCall Rule; PRA Comment: 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 the 

https://www.regulations.gov website. 

Due to the public health emergency in 

response to the COVID–19 outbreak and 

the agency’s heightened security 

screening, postal mail addressed to the 

Commission will be subject to delay. We 

encourage you to submit your comments 

online through the https://

www.regulations.gov website. 

If you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, write ‘‘Pay-Per-Call Rule; PRA 

Comment: 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 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 become 

publicly available at https://

www.regulations.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 publicly at 

www.regulations.gov, we cannot redact 

or remove your comment 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 October 18, 2021. 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. 

Josephine Liu, 

Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[Docket No. CDC–2021–0089] 

Advisory Committee on Immunization 

Practices (ACIP) 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting and request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), announces the 

following meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on Immunization Practices 

(ACIP). This meeting is open to the 

public. The meeting will be webcast live 

via the World Wide Web. A notice of 

this ACIP meeting has also been posted 

on CDC’s ACIP website at: http://

www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/index.html. 

In addition, CDC has sent notice of this 

ACIP meeting by email to those who 

subscribe to receive email updates about 

ACIP. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

August 24, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m., EDT (dates and times subject to 

change), see the ACIP website for 

updates: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ 

acip/index.html. The public may submit 

written comments from August 18, 2021 

through August 24, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2021– 

0089 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, 

MS H24–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329– 

4027, Attn: August 24, 2021 ACIP 

Meeting. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Agency name and 

Docket Number. All relevant comments 

received in conformance with the 

https://www.regulations.gov suitability 

policy will be posted without change to 

https://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. For 

access to the docket to read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

https://www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie Thomas, ACIP Committee 

Management Specialist, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 

National Center for Immunization and 

Respiratory Diseases, 1600 Clifton Road 

NE, MS–H24–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329– 

4027; Telephone: (404) 639–8367; 

Email: ACIP@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 41 CFR 102–3.150(b), 

less than 15 calendar days’ notice is 

being given for this meeting due to the 

exceptional circumstances of the 

COVID–19 pandemic and rapidly 

evolving COVID–19 vaccine 

development and regulatory processes. 

A notice of this ACIP meeting has also 

been posted on CDC’s ACIP website at: 

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/ 

index.html. In addition, CDC has sent 

notice of this ACIP meeting by email to 

those who subscribe to receive email 

updates about ACIP. 

Purpose: The committee is charged 

with advising the Director, CDC, on the 

use of immunizing agents. In addition, 

under 42 U.S.C. 1396s, the committee is 

mandated to establish and periodically 


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