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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 August 2, 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. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11596 Filed 6–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–P 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Information Collection 

Renewal; Comment Request for OGE 

Form 278e Executive Branch 

Personnel Public Financial Disclosure 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics 

(OGE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: After this first round notice 

and public comment period, the Office 

of Government Ethics (OGE) intends to 

request that the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) renew its approval 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act for 

an existing information collection, 

entitled the OGE Form 278e Executive 

Branch Personnel Public Financial 

Disclosure Report. 

DATES: Written comments by the public 

and agencies on this proposed extension 

are invited and must be received by 

August 2, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted to OGE by any of the 

following methods: 

Email: usoge@oge.gov (Include 

reference to ‘‘OGE Form 278e 

paperwork comment’’ in the subject line 

of the message.) 

Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of 

Government Ethics, 1201 New York 

Avenue NW, Suite 500, Attention: Grant 

Anderson, Assistant Counsel, 

Washington, DC 20005–3917. 

Instructions: Comments may be 

posted on OGE’s website, www.oge.gov. 

Sensitive personal information, such as 

account numbers or Social Security 

numbers, should not be included. 

Comments generally will not be edited 

to remove any identifying or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Grant Anderson at the U.S. Office of 

Government Ethics; telephone: 202– 

482–9318; TTY: 800–877–8339; Email: 

ganderso@oge.gov. An electronic copy 

of the OGE Form 278e is available on 

OGE’s website at https://www.oge.gov. A 

paper copy may also be obtained, 

without charge, by contacting Mr. 

Anderson. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Executive Branch Personnel 

Public Financial Disclosure Report. 

Agency Form Number: OGE Form 

278e. 

Abstract: The OGE Form 278 collects 

information from certain officers and 

high-level employees in the executive 

branch for conflicts of interest review 

and public disclosure. The form is also 

completed by individuals who are 

nominated by the President for highlevel executive branch positions 

requiring Senate confirmation and 

individuals entering into and departing 

from other public reporting positions in 

the executive branch. The financial 

information collected relates to: Assets 

and income; transactions; gifts, 

reimbursements and travel expenses; 

liabilities; agreements or arrangements; 

outside positions; and compensation 

over $5,000 paid by a source—all 

subject to various reporting thresholds 

and exclusions. The information is 

collected in accordance with section 

102 of the Ethics in Government Act, 5 

U.S.C. app. sec. 102, as amended by the 

Representative Louise McIntosh 

Slaughter Stop Trading on 

Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 

(Pub. L. 112–105) (STOCK Act) and 

OGE’s implementing financial 

disclosure regulations at 5 CFR part 

2634. 

In 2013, OGE sought and received 

approval for the OGE Form 278e, an 

electronic version of the Form 278, 

implemented pursuant to the e-filing 

system mandated under section 11(b) of 

the STOCK Act. The OGE Form 278e 

collects the same information as the 

OGE Form 278. In 2014, OGE sought 

and received approval to incorporate the 

OGE Form 278e into its Integrity e-filing 

application. Integrity has been in use 

since January 1, 2015, and OGE now 

requires filers to use a version of the 

OGE Form 278e rather than the old OGE 

Form 278. The version of the Form 278e 

that is produced by Integrity is a 

streamlined output report format that 

presents only the filer’s inputs in given 

categories and does not report other 

categories not selected by the filer. OGE 

also continues to maintain an Excel 

version of the form and a 508 compliant 

PDF version on its website. 

OMB Control Number: 3209–0001. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

Type of Review Request: Regular. 

Affected Public: Private citizen 

Presidential nominees to executive 

branch positions subject to Senate 

confirmation; other private citizens who 

are potential (incoming) Federal 

employees whose positions are 

designated for public disclosure filing; 

those who file termination reports from 

such positions after their Government 

service ends; and Presidential and VicePresidential candidates. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 3,196. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

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Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

31,960 hours. 

Request for Comments: OGE is 

publishing this first round notice of its 

intent to request paperwork clearance 

renewal for OGE Form 278e. Public 

comment is invited specifically on the 

need for and practical utility of this 

information collection, the accuracy of 

OGE’s burden estimate, the 

enhancement of quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collected, and 

the minimization of burden (including 

the use of information technology). 

Comments received in response to this 

notice will be summarized for, and may 

be included with, the OGE request for 

extension of OMB paperwork approval. 

The comments will also become a 

matter of public record. 

Approved: May 27, 2021. 

Emory Rounds, 

Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11551 Filed 6–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6345–03–P 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Information Collection 

Renewal; Comment Request for OGE 

Form 450 Executive Branch 

Confidential Financial Disclosure 

Report 

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics 

(OGE). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: After this first round notice 

and public comment period, the Office 

of Government Ethics (OGE) plans to 

request that the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) renew its approval 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act for 

an existing information collection, 

entitled the OGE Form 450 Executive 

Branch Confidential Financial 

Disclosure Report. 

DATES: Written comments by the public 

and agencies on this proposed extension 

are invited and must be received by 

August 2, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted to OGE by any of the 

following methods: 

Email: usoge@oge.gov. (Include 

reference to ‘‘OGE Form 450 paperwork 

comment’’ in the subject line of the 

message.) 

Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of 

Government Ethics, 1201 New York 

Avenue NW, Suite 500, Attention: Grant 

Anderson, Assistant Counsel, 

Washington, DC 20005–3917. 

Instructions: Comments may be 

posted on OGE’s website, www.oge.gov. 

Sensitive personal information, such as 

account numbers or Social Security 

numbers, should not be included. 

Comments generally will not be edited 

to remove any identifying or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Grant Anderson at the U.S. Office of 

Government Ethics; telephone: 202– 

482–9318; TTY: 800–877–8339; Email: 

ganderso@oge.gov. An electronic copy 

of the OGE Form 450 is available on 

OGE’s website at https://www.oge.gov. A 

paper copy may also be obtained, 

without charge, by contacting Mr. 

Anderson. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Executive Branch Confidential 

Financial Disclosure Report. 

Agency Form Number: OGE Form 

450. 

Abstract: The OGE Form 450 collects 

information from covered department 

and agency employees as required 

under OGE’s executive branch wide 

regulatory provisions in subpart I of 5 

CFR part 2634. The basis for the OGE 

reporting regulation is section 201(d) of 

Executive Order 12674 of April 12, 1989 

(as modified by Executive Order 12731 

of October 17, 1990) and section 107(a) 

of the Ethics in Government Act, 5 

U.S.C. app. sec. 107(a). OGE maintains 

the form in three formats on its website: 

a PDF version, a 508 compliant PDF 

version, and an Excel spreadsheet 

version. OGE seeks renewal of the OGE 

Form 450 without modification. 

OMB Control Number: 3209–0006. 

Type of Information Collection: 

Extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

Type of Review Request: Regular. 

Affected Public: Prospective 

Government employees, including 

special Government employees, whose 

positions are designated for confidential 

disclosure filing and whose agencies 

require that they file new entrant 

confidential disclosure reports prior to 

assuming Government responsibilities. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 30,449. 

Estimated Time per Response: 3 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

91,347 hours. 

Request for Comments: OGE is 

publishing this first round notice of its 

intent to request paperwork clearance 

renewal for the OGE Form 450. Public 

comment is invited specifically on the 

need for and practical utility of this 

information collection, the accuracy of 

OGE’s burden estimate, the 

enhancement of quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collected, and 

the minimization of burden (including 

the use of information technology). 

Comments received in response to this 

notice will be summarized for, and may 

be included with, the OGE request for 

extension of OMB paperwork approval. 

The comments will also become a 

matter of public record. 

Approved: May 27, 2021. 

Emory Rounds, 

Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11553 Filed 6–1–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6345–03–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[Document Identifier: CMS–10637 and CMS– 

10501] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, Health and Human 

Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing 

an opportunity for the public to 

comment on CMS’ intention to collect 

information from the public. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the 

PRA), federal agencies are required to 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

concerning each proposed collection of 

information (including each proposed 

extension or reinstatement of an existing 

collection of information) and to allow 

60 days for public comment on the 

proposed action. Interested persons are 

invited to send comments regarding our 

burden estimates or any other aspect of 

this collection of information, including 

the necessity and utility of the proposed 

information collection for the proper 

performance of the agency’s functions, 

the accuracy of the estimated burden, 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected, and the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology to minimize the 

information collection burden. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

August 2, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: When commenting, please 

reference the document identifier or 

OMB control number. To be assured 

consideration, comments and 

recommendations must be submitted in 

any one of the following ways: 

1. Electronically. You may send your 

comments electronically to http:// 


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