69970 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 222 / Friday, November 18, 2005 / Notices 

2All numbers pertaining to hours and cost 

burden estimates have been rounded to the nearest 

thousand. 

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). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed information 

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: On August 

25, 2005, the FTC sought comment on 

the information collection requirements 

associated with the Fuel Rating Rule, 16 

CFR Part 306 (OMB Control Number: 

3084–0068). See 70 FR 49925. No 

comments were received. Pursuant to 

the OMB regulations that implement the 

PRA (5 CFR Part 1320), the FTC is 

providing this second opportunity for 

public comment while seeking OMB 

approval to extend the existing 

paperwork clearance for the Rule. All 

comments should be filed as prescribed 

in the ADDRESSES section above, and 

must be received on or before December 

19, 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 

keep 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. 

Industry estimates of the useful life of 

dispenser labels range from 6 to 10 

years. The estimate is based on the 

bottom of that range, i.e., 6 years. Based 

on industry input, staff believes that the 

average retailer has six dispensers, all 

being obtained or replaced in 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 (28,000 × 6 × .50 ). 

William Blumenthal, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 05–22848 Filed 11–17–05; 8:45 am] 

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 FTC intends to survey 

consumers to advance its understanding 

of the incidence of identity theft (‘‘ID 

Theft’’) and to allow the FTC to better 

serve the people who experience ID 

Theft and the law enforcement agencies 

that investigate and prosecute it. The 

survey is a follow-up to the FTC’s ID 

Theft Survey conducted in March 2003 

and released in September 2003. Before 

gathering this information, the FTC is 

seeking public comments on its 

proposed consumer research. 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). 

DATES: Comments on the proposed 

information requests must be received 

on or before December 19, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘ID Theft 

Survey: FTC File No. P034303’’ 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 E), 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, as prescribed below. 

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 is requesting 

that any comment filed in paper form be 

sent by courier or overnight service, if 

possible. 

Comments filed in electronic form 

should be submitted by clicking on the 

following Web link: https:// 

secure.commentworks.com/FTCIDTSurvey and following the 

instructions on the Web-based form. To 

ensure that the Commission considers 

an electronic comment, you must file it 

on the Web-based form at https:// 

secure.commentworks.com/FTCIDTSurvey. If this notice appears at 

http://www.regulations.gov, you may 

also file an electronic comment through 

that Web site. The Commission will 

consider all comments that 

regulations.gov forwards to it. 

Comments should also be submitted 

to: Office of Management and Budget, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal 

Trade Commission. Comments should 

be submitted via facsimile to (202) 395– 

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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. 

6974 because U.S. Postal Mail is subject 

to lengthy delays 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. All timely and responsive 

public comments will be considered by 

the Commission and will be available to 

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 collection of 

information, should be addressed to 

Joanna P. Crane, Program Manager, 

Federal Trade Commission ID Theft 

Program, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20580. 

Telephone: (202) 326–3228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In March 

2003, OMB approved the FTC’s request 

to conduct a survey on ID Theft and 

assigned OMB 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 On August, 25, 2005, 

the FTC published a Federal Register 

Notice seeking comments from the 

public concerning a new survey that 

would follow up on the 2003 survey. 

See 70 FR 49924. No comments were 

received. Pursuant to the OMB 

regulations that implement the PRA (5 

CFR Part 1320), the FTC is providing 

this second opportunity for public 

comment while requesting that OMB 

reinstate the clearance for the survey. 

All comments should be filed as 

prescribed in the ADDRESSES section 

above, and must be received on or 

before December 19, 2005. 

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. 

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, whether the 

type and frequency of ID Theft is 

changing, and 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 should produce statistically 

significant samples for particular types 

of fraud 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 conduct 

another follow-up survey in 

approximately two years. 

Estimated Hours Burden 

The consumer research firm will 

pretest the survey on approximately 100 

respondents to ensure that all questions 

are easily understood. This pretest will 

take approximately 3 minutes 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 to 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. 

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. 

William Blumenthal, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 05–22849 Filed 11–17–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60 Day–06–06AC] 

Proposed Data Collections Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

In compliance with the requirement 

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed projects. To 

request more information on the 

proposed projects or to obtain a copy of 

the data collection plans and 

instruments, call 404–639–4766 and 

send comments to Seleda Perryman, 

CDC Assistant Reports Clearance 

Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS–D74, 

Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an e-mail to 

omb@cdc.gov. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Written comments should 

be received within 60 days of this 

notice. 

Proposed Project 

Low Back Exposure Assessment Tool 

for Mining—NEW—National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention (CDC). 

The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act 

of 1977, section 501, enables CDC/ 

NIOSH to carry out research relevant to 

the health and safety of workers in the