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2The Report is available at http://www.ftc.gov/os/

2003/09/synovatereport.pdf.

3The questionnaire for the 2003 survey is 

available as Appendix A to the Report.

1Commission Rule 4.2(d), 16 CFR 4.2(d). 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 Commission Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 

4.9(c).

Control Number 3084–0124. The FTC 

completed the consumer research in 

April 2003 and issued its report, Federal 

Trade Commission—Identity Theft 

Survey Report, in September 2003.2 As 

required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

PRA, the FTC is providing this 

opportunity for public comment before 

requesting that OMB reinstate the 

clearance for the survey, which expired 

in June 2003.

The FTC invites comments on: (1) 

Whether the proposed collections of 

information are necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the FTC, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

the FTC’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collections of information; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of collecting information on 

those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. All comments 

should be filed as prescribed in the 

ADDRESSES section above, and must be 

received on or before October 24, 2005. 

1. Description of the Collection of 

Information and Proposed Use 

The FTC proposes to survey up to 

5,000 consumers in order to gather 

specific information on the incidence of 

ID Theft in the general population. All 

information will be collected on a 

voluntary basis, and the identities of the 

consumers will remain confidential. 

Subject to OMB approval for the survey, 

the FTC has contracted with a consumer 

research firm to identify consumers and 

conduct the survey. The results will 

assist the FTC in determining the 

incidence of ID Theft in the general 

population and whether the type and 

frequency of ID Theft is changing, and 

will inform the FTC about how best to 

combat ID Theft. 

ID Theft has been the top consumer 

complaint reported to the FTC since 

calendar year 2000. The information 

collected by the survey will ensure that 

the FTC has accurate and timely 

information on the extent of ID Theft 

and its impact on victims. This 

information will be highly useful to 

Congress and others who often request 

statistical information on ID Theft from 

the FTC. 

The FTC intends to use a larger 

sample size than the 2003 survey to 

allow for a more in-depth analysis of the 

resulting data. The additional data 

points will allow for statistically 

significant samples for particular types 

of ID Theft and particular demographic 

characteristics. The questions will be 

very similar to the 2003 survey so that 

the results from the 2003 survey can be 

used as a baseline for a time-series 

analysis.3 The FTC may choose to 

conduct another follow-up survey in 

approximately two years.

2. Estimated Hours Burden 

The FTC will pretest the survey on 

approximately 100 respondents to 

ensure that all questions are easily 

understood. This pretest will take 

approximately 3 minutes on average per 

person and 5 hours as a whole (100 

respondents × 3 minutes each). Based 

on FTC staff’s experience with the 2003 

survey, the staff estimates that 

approximately 12 percent of those 

interviewed will have experienced ID 

Theft within the last 5 years. Survey 

participants who have not experienced 

ID Theft in this period of time will only 

be asked the initial 4 or 5 survey 

questions. The staff expects that this 

will take less than 2 minutes. For those 

who have experienced ID Theft in the 

last 5 years, our experience with the 

earlier survey suggests that it will take 

about 12 to 15 minutes to complete the 

survey. The staff therefore anticipates 

that the average time per survey 

participant will be approximately 3 

minutes. Answering the consumer 

survey will require approximately 250 

hours as a whole (5,000 respondents ×

3 minutes each). Thus, cumulative total 

burden hours for the first year of the 

clearance will approximate 255 hours. 

3. Estimated Cost Burden 

The cost per respondent should be 

negligible. Participation is voluntary 

and will not require start-up, capital, or 

labor expenditures by respondents.

Christian S. White, 

Acting General Counsel.

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–P

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission 

(FTC).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The FTC is seeking public 

comments on its proposal to extend 

through December 31, 2008 the current 

Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’) 

clearance for information collection 

requirements contained in its Fuel 

Rating Rule (‘‘Rule’’). That clearance 

expires on December 31, 2005.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 24, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘Fuel Rating 

Rule: FTC File No. R811005’’ to 

facilitate the organization of comments. 

A comment filed in paper form should 

include this 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, Room H 135 (Annex 

J), 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20580. Because paper 

mail in the Washington area and at the 

Commission is subject to delay, please 

consider submitting your comments in 

electronic form, (in ASCII format, 

WordPerfect, or Microsoft Word) as part 

of or as an attachment to e-mail 

messages directed to the following email box: paperworkcomment@ftc.gov. 

However, if the comment contains any 

material for which confidential 

treatment is requested, it must be filed 

in paper form, and the first page of the 

document must be clearly labeled 

‘‘Confidential.’’ 1

The FTC Act and other laws the 

Commission administers permit the 

collection of public comments to 

consider and use in this proceeding as 

appropriate. All timely and responsive 

public comments will be considered by 

the Commission and will be available to 

the public on the FTC website, to the 

extent practicable, at www.ftc.gov. As a 

matter of discretion, the FTC makes 

every effort to remove home contact 

information for individuals from the 

public comments it receives before 

placing those comments on the FTC 

Web site. 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.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed information 

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2All numbers pertaining to hours and cost 

burden estimates have been rounded to the nearest 

thousand.

requirements should be sent to Neil 

Blickman, Attorney, Division of 

Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 

600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–3038.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3520, Federal agencies 

must obtain approval from OMB for 

each collection of information they 

conduct or sponsor. ‘‘Collection of 

information’’ means agency requests or 

requirements that members of the public 

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 paperwork 

clearance for the regulations noted 

herein. 

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, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. All comments 

should be filed as prescribed in the 

ADDRESSES section above, and must be 

received on or before October 24, 2005. 

The Fuel Rating Rule, 16 CFR part 306 

(OMB Control Number: 3084–0068), 

establishes standard procedures for 

determining, certifying, and disclosing 

the octane rating of automotive gasoline 

and the automotive fuel rating of 

alternative liquid automotive fuels, as 

required by the Petroleum Marketing 

Practices Act. 15 U.S.C. 2822(a)–(c). The 

Rule also requires refiners, producers, 

importers, distributors, and retailers to 

retain records showing how the ratings 

were determined, including delivery 

tickets or letters of certification. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 2

40,000 total burden hours (16,000 

recordkeeping hours + 24,000 disclosure 

hours).

Recordkeeping: Based on industry 

sources, staff estimates that 195,000 fuel 

industry members each incur an average 

annual burden of approximately five 

minutes to ensure retention of relevant 

business records for the period required 

by the Rule, resulting in a total of 16,000 

hours. 

Disclosure: Staff estimates that 

affected industry members incur an 

average burden of approximately one 

hour to produce, distribute, and post 

octane rating labels. Because the labels 

are durable, only about one of every 

eight industry members (i.e., 

approximately 24,000 of 195,000 

industry members) incur this burden 

each year, resulting in a total annual 

burden of 24,000 hours. 

Estimated annual cost burden:

$804,000 ($720,000 in labor costs and 

$84,000 in non-labor costs). 

Labor costs: Staff estimates that the 

work associated with the Rule’s 

recordkeeping and disclosure 

requirements is performed by skilled 

information and record clerks at an 

average rate of $18.00 per hour. Thus, 

the annual labor cost to respondents of 

complying with the recordkeeping and 

disclosure requirements of the Rule is 

estimated to be $720,000 ((16,000 hours 

+ 24,000 hours) × $18.00 per hour). 

Capital or other non-labor costs:

$84,000. 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs associated with the Rule. 

Because the Rule has been effective 

since 1979 for gasoline, and since 1993 

for liquid alternative automotive fuels, 

industry members already have in place 

the capital equipment and other means 

necessary to comply with the Rule. 

Retailers (approximately 170,000 

industry members), however, do incur 

the cost of procuring (and replacing) 

fuel dispenser labels to comply with the 

Rule. According to industry input, the 

price per label is about fifty cents. Based 

on ranging industry estimates of a 6–10 

year useful life per dispenser label, staff 

will conservatively factor into its 

calculation of labeling cost the shortest 

assumed useful life, i.e., 6 years. Staff 

believes that the average retailer has six 

dispensers, with all of them being 

obtained either simultaneously or 

otherwise within the same year. 

Assuming that, in any given year, 1⁄6th 

of all retailers (28,000 retailers) will 

replace their dispenser labels, staff 

estimates total labeling cost to be 

$84,000 (28,333 × 6 × .50 ).

Christian S. White, 

Acting General Counsel.

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[30Day–05–05CK] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

The Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of 

information collection requests under 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). To request a copy of these 

requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance 

Officer at (404) 371–5974 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written 

comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written 

comments should be received within 30 

days of this notice. 

Proposed Project 

Collection of Assessment Information 

about the Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention Publications—NEW—

National Center for Health Marketing 

(NCHM), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

Background and Brief Description 

As part of CDC’s Future’s Initiative, 

the National Center for Health 

Marketing was created to ensure that 

health information, interventions, and 

programs at CDC are based on sound 

science. 

Numerous CDC-operated 

communication platforms targeting 

scientific, professional, and technical 

audiences have been developed in the 

past twenty years. The reach of many of 

these platforms has increased 

significantly in the past five years. In 

order to ensure future growth, it is 

critical to obtain feedback from 

subscribers of these platforms to 

understand who uses them, how they 

use them, how satisfied they are with 

the platforms, and solicit suggestions on 

ways to improve each platform to 

bolster satisfaction. The data collected 

from this effort will allow us to answer 

critical operating questions, including: