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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). 

License Number: 018332F. 

Name: Pioneer Logistics, Inc. 

Address: 2300 Higgins Road, Suite 204, 

Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. 

Date Revoked: August 25, 2005. 

Reason: Failed to maintain a valid bond. 

License Number: 018948NF. 

Name: Reliable International Logistics, 

Inc. 

Address: 33442 Western Avenue, Union 

City, CA 94587. 

Date Revoked: August 14, 2005. 

Reason: Failed to maintain valid bonds. 

License Number: 009602N. 

Name: Sea Traders Line, Inc. 

Address: 2350 North Sam Houston 

Pkwy East, Suite 750, Houston, TX 

77032. 

Date Revoked: September 15, 2005. 

Reason: Failed to maintain a valid bond. 

License Number: 019102N. 

Name: Starlink Consolidation Service 

(New York), Inc. 

Address: JFK Cargo Area, Bldg., #75, 

North Hangar Rd., Suite #230, 

Jamaica, NY 11430. 

Date Revoked: July 26, 2005. 

Reason: Surrendered license 

voluntarily. 

License Number: 004408F. 

Name: Richard A. Banuelos dba Surface 

Sea Forwarding. 

Address: 8432 Lindante Drive, Whittier, 

CA 90903. 

Date Revoked: August 29, 2005. 

Reason: Surrendered license 

voluntarily. 

Sandra L. Kusumoto, 

Director, Bureau of Certification and 

Licensing. 

[FR Doc. 05–19367 Filed 9–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P 

FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 

Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

License Applicants 

Notice is hereby given that the 

following applicants have filed with the 

Federal Maritime Commission an 

application for license as a Non-VesselOperating Common Carrier and Ocean 

Freight Forwarder—Ocean 

Transportation Intermediary pursuant to 

section 19 of the Shipping Act of 1984 

as amended (46 U.S.C. app. 1718 and 46 

CFR part 515). 

Persons knowing of any reason why 

the following applicants should not 

receive a license are requested to 

contact the Office of Transportation 

Intermediaries, Federal Maritime 

Commission, Washington, DC 20573. 

Non-Vessel—Operating Common Carrier 

Ocean Transportation Intermediary 

Applicants: 

Global Port Ship Lines, Inc., 11067 

60th Avenue, Prole, IA 50229. 

Officers: Timothy Stephen 

Mansfield, Secretary (Qualifying 

Individual) Timothy F. Pontier, 

President. 

Amer-Asia Trading Corporation, 99–

984 Iwaena Street, Aiea, HI 96701. 

Officers: Ove-Christensen, Asst. 

Secretary (Qualifying Individual) 

Thang Huy Pham, President. 

NSM Logistics, Inc. dba Skyy 

Logistics, Inc., 163 Burlington Path 

Road, Suite H, Cream Ridge, NJ 

08514. Officer: Sandeep Sharma, 

President (Qualifying Individual). 

Oceanika Express, Inc., 8231 NW 68 

Street, Miami, FL 33166. Officer: 

Luis Suarez, President (Qualifying 

Individual). 

Marco Polo Logistics (Chi) Inc., 10929 

Franklin Drive, Unit W, Franklin 

Park, IL 60131. Officers: Philip Lee, 

CFO (Qualifying Individual) James 

Ya-Hsiung Wu, President. 

Non-Vessel—Operating Common Carrier 

and Ocean Freight Forwarder 

Transportation Intermediary 

Applicants: 

R.T.I. Shipping Inc., 191–03 Jamiaca 

Aveune, Hollis, NY 11423. Officers: 

Romain Singh, Owner (Qualifying 

Individual) Tyrone Singh, Owner. 

Anchor Global (USA), Inc., 11133 

Oakton Road, Oackton, VA 22124. 

Officers: Ellen Haiyan Sun, Vice 

President (Qualifying Individual) 

Hao Peng, President. 

General Logistics Solutions, Corp., 

3520 NW 115th Avenue, Miami, FL 

33178. Officer: Alejandro Orsini, 

President (Qualifying Individual). 

Servicios Hondurenos, 6601 Hillcroft, 

Suite 207, Houston, TX 77081, 

Francis Mendez Alvarez, Sole 

Proprietor. 

Ocean Freight Forwarder—Ocean 

Transportation Intermediary 

Applicants: 

ACD Cargo, Inc., 7100 N.W. 36th 

Avenue, Miami, FL 33147. Officer: 

Maria (a/k/a Mercy Flores, 

President (Qualifying Individual) 

Jair Alberto Pitty, Partner. 

Oceanpac Transport, Inc., 1428 Brett 

Place, Unit 81, San Pedro, CA 

90732. Officers: Nobuyuki Kase, 

President (Qualifying Individual) 

Fumiko Kase, CFO. 

Dated: September 23, 2005. 

Karen V. Gregory, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–19365 Filed 9–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6730–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Extension 

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’’) (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). The 

FTC is seeking public comments on its 

proposal to extend through December 

31, 2008 the current PRA clearances for 

information collection requirements 

contained in four product labeling rules 

enforced by the Commission. Those 

clearances expire on December 31, 2005. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 28, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘Apparel 

Rules: FTC File No. P948404’’ 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/Office of the 

Secretary, Room H–135 (Annex J), 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue, 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 

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2The total number of fur garments, fur-trimmed 

garments, and fur accessories is estimated to be 

approximately 3,500,000, based on International 

Trade Commission data. Of that number, 

approximately 500,000 items are estimated to be 

exempt from the labeling requirements pursuant to 

16 CFR 301.39 (items where either the cost of the 

fur trim to the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s 

selling price for the finished product is less than 

$150 are exempt). 

3The invoice disclosure burden for PRA purposes 

excludes the time that respondents would spend for 

invoicing, apart from the Fur Act Regulations, in 

the ordinary course of business. See 5 CFR 

1320.3(b)(2). 

4Per industry sources, most fur labeling is done 

in the U.S., and this rate is reflective of an average 

domestic hourly wage for such tasks. Conversely, 

attaching labels with regard to the others 

regulations discussed herein is mostly performed by 

foreign labor, as detailed in note 5. 

the public on the FTC Web site, 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 

requirements should be addressed as 

follows: 

For the Fur Act Regulations, Wool Act 

Regulations, and Textile Act 

Regulations, contact Carol Jennings, 

Attorney, Enforcement Division, Bureau 

of Consumer Protection, 600 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20580, (202) 326–2996. 

For the Care Labeling Rule, contact 

Connie Vecellio, Attorney, Enforcement 

Division, Bureau of Consumer 

Protection, 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–2996. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, 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 November 28, 

2005. 

Staff’s burden estimates for the four 

rules in question are based on data from 

the Bureau of Census, U.S. Customs and 

International Trade Commission, the 

Department of Labor, and data or other 

input from industry sources. The 

relevant information collection 

requirements within these rules and 

corresponding burden estimates follow. 

1. Regulations Under the Fur Products 

Labeling Act, 15 U.S.C. 69 et seq. (‘‘Fur 

Act’’) (OMB Control Number: 3084–

0099) 

The Fur Act prohibits the 

misbranding and false advertising of fur 

products. The Fur Act Regulations, 16 

CFR 301, establish disclosure 

requirements that assist consumers in 

making informed purchasing decisions, 

and recordkeeping requirements that 

assist the Commission in enforcing 

these regulations. The Regulations also 

provide a procedure for exemption from 

certain disclosure provisions under the 

Fur Act. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

168,000 hours, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (54,080 hours for 

recordkeeping + 113,633 hours for 

disclosure). 

Recordkeeping: The Regulations 

require that retailers, manufacturers, 

processors, and importers of furs and fur 

products keep certain records in 

addition to those they may keep in the 

ordinary course of business. Staff 

estimates that 1,300 retailers incur an 

average recordkeeping burden of about 

13 hours per year (16,900 hours total); 

115 manufacturers and fur processors 

combined incur an average 

recordkeeping burden of about 52 hours 

per year (5,980 total); and 1,200 

importers of furs and fur products incur 

an average recordkeeping burden of 26 

hours per year (31,200 hours total). The 

combined recordkeeping burden for the 

industry is approximately 54,080 hours 

annually. 

Disclosure: Staff estimates that 1,400 

respondents (100 manufacturers + 1,300 

retail sellers of fur garments) each 

require an average of 20 hours per year 

to determine label content (28,000 hours 

total), and an average of five hours per 

year to draft and order labels (7,000 

hours total). Staff estimates that the total 

number of garments subject to the fur 

labeling requirements is approximately 

3,000,000.2 Staff estimates that for 

approximately half of these garments, 

labels are attached manually, requiring 

approximately two minutes per garment 

for a total of 50,000 hours annually. For 

the remaining 1,500,000, the process of 

attaching labels is semi-automated and 

requires an average of approximately 

two seconds per item, for a total of 1,000 

hours (rounded to the nearest 

thousand). Thus, the total burden for 

attaching labels is 51,000 hours, and the 

total burden for labeling garments is 

86,000 hours per year. 

Staff estimates that the incremental 

burden associated with the Regulations’

invoice disclosure requirement, beyond 

the time that would be devoted to 

preparing invoices in its absence, is 

approximately 30 seconds per invoice.3

The invoice disclosure requirement 

applies to fur garments, which are 

generally sold individually, and fur 

pelts, which are generally sold in groups 

of at least 50, on average. Assuming 

invoices are prepared for sales of 

3,000,000 garments and 160,000 groups 

(an estimated 8 million pelts ÷ 50) each 

of imported and domestic pelts, the 

invoice disclosure requirement entails 

an estimated total burden of 26,333 

hours. 

Staff estimates that the Regulations’

advertising disclosure requirements 

impose an average burden of one hour 

per year for each of the approximately 

1,300 domestic fur retailers, or a total of 

1,300 hours. 

Thus, staff estimates the total 

disclosure burden to be approximately 

113,633 hours (86,000 hours for labeling 

+ 26,333 hours for invoices + 1,300 

hours for advertising). 

Estimated annual cost burden: 

$2,153,000, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (solely relating to labor costs). 

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Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost 

Determine label content ............................................................................................. $20.00 28,000 $560,000 

Draft and order labels ................................................................................................ 13.00 7,000 91,000 

Attach labels .............................................................................................................. 4 8.50 51,000 433,500 

Invoice disclosures .................................................................................................... 13.00 26,333 342,329 

Prepare advertising disclosures ................................................................................ 18.00 1,300 23,400 

Recordkeeping ........................................................................................................... 13.00 54,080 703,040 

Total .................................................................................................................... .............................. .............................. 2,153,269 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs or other capital costs 

associated with the Regulations. 

Because the labeling of fur products has 

been an integral part of the 

manufacturing process for decades, 

manufacturers have in place the capital 

equipment necessary to comply with the 

Regulations’ labeling requirements. 

Industry sources indicate that much of 

the information required by the Fur Act 

and its implementing Regulations 

would be included on the product label 

even absent the regulations. Similarly, 

invoicing, recordkeeping, and 

advertising disclosures are tasks 

performed in the ordinary course of 

business so that covered firms would 

incur no additional capital or other nonlabor costs as a result of the Act or the 

Regulations. 

2. Regulations Under the Wool Products 

Labeling Act, 15 U.S.C. 68 et seq. 

(‘‘Wool Act’’) (OMB Control Number: 

3084–0100) 

The Wool Act prohibits the 

misbranding of wool products. The 

Wool Act Regulations, 16 CFR 300, 

establish disclosure requirements that 

assist consumers in making informed 

purchasing decisions and recordkeeping 

requirements that assist the Commission 

in enforcing the Regulations. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

407,000 hours, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (80,000 recordkeeping hours + 

326,667 disclosure hours). 

Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that 

approximately 4,000 wool firms are 

subject to the Regulations’

recordkeeping requirements. Based on 

an average annual burden of 20 hours 

per firm, the total recordkeeping burden 

is 80,000 hours. 

Disclosure: Approximately 8,000 wool 

firms, producing or importing about 

500,000,000 wool products annually, 

are subject to the Regulations’

disclosure requirements. Staff estimates 

the burden of determining label content 

to be 15 hours per year per respondent, 

or a total of 120,000 hours, and the 

burden of drafting and ordering labels to 

be 5 hours per respondent per year, or 

a total of 40,000 hours. 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 300,000,000 items (60 

percent of 500,000,000), the process is 

semi-automated and requires an average 

of approximately two seconds per item, 

for a total of 166,667 hours per year. 

Thus, the total estimated annual burden 

for all respondents is 326,667 hours. 

Staff believes that any additional burden 

associated with advertising disclosure 

requirements would be minimal (less 

than 10,000 hours) and can be 

subsumed within the burden estimates 

set forth above. 

Estimated annual cost burden: 

$4,460,000, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (solely relating to labor costs). 

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5For products that are imported, this work 

generally is done in the country where they are 

manufactured. According to information compiled 

by an industry trade association using data from the 

International Trade Commission, the U.S. Customs 

Service, and the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 

90% of apparel and other textile products used in 

the United States is imported. With the remaining 

10% attributable to U.S. production at an 

approximate domestic hourly wage of $8.50 to 

attach labels, staff has calculated a weighted 

average hourly wage of $3 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 2001 compiled 

by the Office of Textiles and Apparel, International 

Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. Wages in major textile exporting 

countries, factored into the above hourly wage 

estimate, were based on data published in February 

2000 by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs (See ‘‘Wages, Benefits, 

Poverty Line, and Meeting Workers’’ Needs in the 

Apparel and Footwear Industries of Selected 

Countries,’’ Table I–2: ‘‘Prevailing or Average 

Wages in the Manufacturing Sector and in the 

Footwear and Apparel Industries in Selected 

Countries, Latest Available Year’’). 

6The apparent consumption of garments in the 

U.S. in 2004 was 18.4 billion. 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 .5 billion of all of these 

combined products (garments and non-garments) 

are subject to the Wool Products Labeling Act, not 

the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act, 

because they contain some amount of wool. Thus, 

the estimated net total products subject to the 

Textile Fiber Products Identification Act is 19.9 

billion. 

7See note 5. 

Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost 

Determine label content ............................................................................................. $20.00 120,000 $2,400,000 

Draft and order labels ................................................................................................ 13.00 40,000 520,000 

Attach labels .............................................................................................................. 5 3.00 166,667 500,001 

Recordkeeping ........................................................................................................... 13.00 80,000 1,040,000 

Total .................................................................................................................... .............................. .............................. $4,460,001 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs or other capital costs 

associated with the Regulations. 

Because the labeling of wool products 

has been an integral part of the 

manufacturing process for decades, 

manufacturers have in place the capital 

equipment necessary to comply with the 

Regulations. Based on knowledge of the 

industry, staff believes that much of the 

information required by the Wool Act 

and its implementing regulations would 

be included on the product label even 

absent their requirements. Similarly, 

recordkeeping and advertising 

disclosures are tasks performed in the 

ordinary course of business so that 

covered firms would incur no additional 

capital or other non-labor costs as a 

result of the Regulations. 

3. Regulations Under The Textile Fiber 

Products Identification Act, 15 U.S.C. 70 

et seq. (‘‘Textile Act’’) (OMB Control 

Number: 3084–0101) 

The Textile Act prohibits the 

misbranding and false advertising of 

textile fiber products. The Textile Act 

Regulations, 16 CFR part 303, establish 

disclosure requirements that assist 

consumers in making informed 

purchasing decisions, and 

recordkeeping requirements that assist 

the Commission in enforcing the 

Regulations. The Regulations also 

contain a petition procedure for 

requesting the establishment of generic 

names for textile fibers. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

approximately 8,011,000 hours, 

rounded to the nearest thousand 

(600,000 recordkeeping hours + 

7,411,111 disclosure hours). 

Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that 

approximately 24,000 textile firms are 

subject to the Textile Regulations’

recordkeeping requirements. Based on 

an average burden of 25 hours per firm, 

the total recordkeeping burden is 

600,000 hours. 

Disclosure: Approximately 32,000 

textile firms, producing or importing 

about 19.9 billion textile fiber products 

annually, are subject to the Regulations’

disclosure requirements.6 Staff 

estimates the burden of determining 

label content to be 20 hours per year per 

respondent, or a total of 640,000 hours 

and the burden of drafting and ordering 

labels to be 5 hours per respondent per 

year, or a total of 160,000 hours. 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 11.9 billion 

items (60 percent of 19.9 billion), the 

process is semi-automated and requires 

an average of approximately two 

seconds per item, for a total of 6,611,111 

hours per year. Thus, the total estimated 

annual burden for all respondents is 

7,411,111 hours. 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: 

$42,513,000, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (solely relating to labor costs). 

Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost 

Determine label content ............................................................................................. $20.00 640,000 $12,800,000 

Draft and order labels ................................................................................................ 13.00 160,000 2,080,000 

Attach labels .............................................................................................................. 7 3.00 6,611,111 19,833,333 

Recordkeeping ........................................................................................................... 13.00 600,000 7,800,000 

Total .................................................................................................................... .............................. .............................. 42,513,333 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs or other capital costs 

associated with the Regulations. 

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 

Regulations’ labeling requirements. 

Industry sources indicate that much of 

the information required by the Textile 

Act and its implementing 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 so that covered firms would 

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8The Care Labeling Rule imposes no specific 

recordkeeping requirements. Although the Rule 

requires manufacturers and importers to have 

reliable evidence to support the recommended care 

instructions, companies may provide as support 

current technical literature or rely on past 

experience. 

9About 1 billion of the 18.4 billion garments 

produced annually are either not covered by the 

Care Labeling Rule (gloves, hats, caps, and leather, 

fur, plastic, or leather garments) or are subject to an 

exemption that allows care instructions to appear 

on packaging (hosiery). 

10See note 5. 

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). 

incur no additional capital or other nonlabor costs as a result of the Regulations. 

4. The Care Labeling Rule, 16 CFR Part 

423 (OMB Control Number: 3084–0103) 

The Care Labeling Rule, 16 CFR Part 

423, requires manufacturers and 

importers to attach a permanent care 

label to all covered textile clothing in 

order to assist consumers in making 

purchase decisions and in determining 

what method to use to clean their 

apparel. Also, manufacturers and 

importers of piece goods used to make 

textile clothing must provide the same 

care information on the end of each bolt 

or roll of fabric. 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

6,889,000 hours, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (solely relating to 

disclosure 8). 

Staff estimates that approximately 

24,700 manufacturers or importers of 

textile apparel, producing about 17.4 

billion textile garments annually, are 

subject to the Rule’s disclosure 

requirements. The burden of developing 

proper care instructions may vary 

greatly among firms, primarily based on 

the number of different lines of textile 

garments introduced per year that 

require new or revised care instructions. 

Staff estimates the burden of 

determining care instructions to be 43 

hours each year per respondent, for a 

cumulative total of 1,062,100 hours. 

Staff further estimates that the burden of 

drafting and ordering labels is 2 hours 

each year per respondent, for a total of 

49,400 hours. Staff believes that the 

process of attaching labels is fully 

automated and integrated into other 

production steps for about 40 percent of 

the approximately 17.4 billion garments 

that are required to have care 

instructions on permanent labels.9 For 

the remaining 10.4 billion items (60 

percent of 17.4 billion), the process is 

semi-automated and requires an average 

of approximately two seconds per item, 

for a total of 5,777,778 hours per year. 

Thus, the total estimated annual burden 

for all respondents is 6,889,278 hours. 

Estimated annual cost burden: 

$39,218,000, rounded to the nearest 

thousand (solely relating to labor costs). 

Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost 

Determine care instructions ....................................................................................... $20.00 1,062,100 $21,242,000 

Draft and order labels ................................................................................................ 13.00 49,400 642,200 

Attach labels .............................................................................................................. 10 3.00 5,777,778 17,333,334 

Total .................................................................................................................... .............................. .............................. 39,217,534 

Staff believes that there are no current 

start-up costs or other capital costs 

associated with the Rule. 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 Rule’s 

labeling requirements. Based on 

knowledge of the industry, staff believes 

that much of the information required 

by the Rule would be included on the 

product label even absent those 

requirements. 

William Blumenthal, 

General Counsel. 

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BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; 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’’) (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). The 

FTC is seeking public comments on its 

proposal to extend through January 31, 

2009 the current PRA clearances for 

information collection requirements 

contained in four consumer financial 

regulations enforced by the 

Commission. Those clearances expire 

on January 31, 2006. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 28, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘Regs BEMZ: 

FTC File No. P054803’’ 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/Office of the Secretary, 

Room H–135 (Annex J), 600 

Pennsylvania Avenue, 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.