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1 Commission 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). 

1. The Schifferdecker Limited 

Partnership, to acquire control of G.N. 

Bankshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly 

acquire control of The Girard National 

Bank, all of Girard, Kansas. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 1, 2008. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E8–18107 Filed 8–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The applications also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than September 2, 

2008. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. First Community Financial 

Partners, Inc., Joliet, Illinois, to acquire 

at least 57.8 percent of the voting shares 

of First Community Bank of Plainfield 

(in organization), Plainfield, Illinois. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 4, 2008. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc.E8–18187 Filed 8–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

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’’). The FTC is seeking public 

comments on its proposal to extend 

through January 31, 2012, the current 

PRA clearance for information sought 

through compulsory process orders to a 

combined ten or more of the largest 

cigarette manufacturers and smokeless 

tobacco manufacturers in order to obtain 

from them information including, 

among other things, their sales and 

marketing expenditures. The current 

clearance expires on January 31, 2009. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed 

information requests must be received 

on or before October 6, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments. 

Comments should refer to ‘‘Tobacco 

Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File 

No. P054507’’ to facilitate the 

organization of comments. The 

Commission is requesting that any 

comment filed in paper form be sent by 

courier or overnight service, if possible 

because U.S. postal mail in the 

Washington area and at the FTC is 

subject to delay due to heightened 

security precautions. Moreover, because 

paper mail in the Washington area and 

at the FTC is subject to delay, please 

consider submitting your comments in 

electronic form, as prescribed below. If, 

however, 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

Comments filed in electronic form 

should be submitted by following the 

instructions on the web-based form at 

(https://secure.commentworks.com/ftcTobaccoReports) 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/ftcTobaccoReports). If this notice appears 

at www.regulations.gov, you may also 

file an electronic comment through that 

website. The Commission will consider 

all comments that www.regulations.gov 

forwards to it. 

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 

website. 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.shtm). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed collection of 

information should be addressed to 

Shira Modell, Attorney, Division of 

Advertising Practices, Bureau of 

Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 

Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. 

Telephone: (202) 326-3116. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For forty 

years, the Federal Trade Commission 

has published periodic reports 

containing data on domestic cigarette 

sales and marketing expenditures by the 

major U.S. cigarette manufacturers. The 

Commission has published comparable 

reports on smokeless tobacco sales and 

marketing expenditures since 1987. 

Both reports originally were issued 

pursuant to statutory mandates. After 

those statutory mandates were 

terminated, the Commission continued 

to collect and publish information 

obtained from the cigarette and 

smokeless tobacco industries pursuant 

to Section 6(b) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 

46(b). The current PRA clearance to 

collect this information is valid through 


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2 In 2007, the Commission issued information 

requests to five cigarette companies and five 

smokeless tobacco companies. Given changing 

growth conditions in the industry since then, the 

Commission anticipates that it will issue requests 

to six cigarette companies in 2009. 

3 70 FR 24415 (May 9, 2005); 70 FR 62313 

(October 31, 2005). 

January 31, 2009, under OMB Control 

No. 3084-0134. 

The FTC plans to continue sending 

information requests annually to the 

ultimate parent company of several of 

the largest cigarette companies and 

smokeless tobacco companies in the 

United States (‘‘industry members’’). 

The information requests will seek data 

regarding, inter alia: (1) the tobacco 

sales of industry members; (2) how 

much industry members spend 

advertising and promoting their tobacco 

products, and the specific amounts 

spent in each of a number of specified 

expenditure categories; (3) whether 

industry members are involved in the 

appearance of their tobacco products in 

television shows or movies; (4) how 

much industry members spend on 

advertising intended to reduce youth 

tobacco usage; (5) the events, if any, 

during which industry members’

tobacco brands are televised; and (6) for 

the cigarette industry, the tar, nicotine, 

and carbon monoxide ratings of their 

cigarettes, to the extent they possess 

such data. The information will again be 

sought using compulsory process under 

Section 6(b) of the FTC Act. 

Under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521, 

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 instant collection of information. 

The FTC invites comments on: (1) 

whether the proposed collection of 

information required by the Rule 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. 

Estimated hours burden: The FTC 

staff’s estimate of the hours burden is 

based on the time required to respond 

to each information request. Although 

the FTC currently anticipates sending in 

2009 information requests to the six 

largest cigarette companies and the five 

largest smokeless tobacco companies,2

the burden estimate is based on up to 15 

information requests being issued per 

year to take into account any future 

changes in these industries. These 

companies vary greatly in size, in the 

number of products that they sell, and 

in the extent and variety of their 

advertising and promotion. Prior input 

received from the industries, combined 

with staff’s knowledge of them, suggests 

that the time most companies would 

require to gather, organize, format, and 

produce their responses would range 

from 30 to 80 hours per information 

request for the smaller companies, to as 

much as hundreds of hours for the very 

largest companies. As an 

approximation, staff continues to 

assume a per company average of 180 

hours for the ten largest recipients of the 

Commission’s information request to 

comply with it; cumulatively, 1,800 

hours per year.3 Staff further estimates 

that for the eleventh anticipated 

recipient of the information request to 

be issued in 2009 and the four possible 

additional recipients, all of which 

would be smaller companies, the 

burden should not exceed 60 hours per 

company or 300 hours, cumulatively. 

Thus, overall estimated burden for a 

maximum of 15 recipients of the 

information request is 2,100 hours. 

These estimates include any time spent 

by separately incorporated subsidiaries 

and other entities affiliated with the 

ultimate parent company that has 

received the information request. 

Estimated cost burden: It is not 

possible to calculate with precision the 

labor costs associated with this data 

production, as they entail varying 

compensation levels of management 

and/or support staff among companies 

of different sizes. Financial, legal, 

marketing, and clerical personnel may 

be involved in the information 

collection process. Commission staff 

assumes that professional personnel 

will handle most of the tasks involved 

in gathering and producing responsive 

information, and have applied an 

average hourly wage of $150/hour for 

their combined labor. Staff’s best 

estimate for the total labor costs for up 

to 15 information requests is $315,000. 

Staff believes that the capital or other 

non-labor costs associated with the 

information requests are minimal. 

Although the information requests may 

necessitate that industry members 

maintain the requested information 

provided to the Commission, they 

should already have in place the means 

to compile and maintain business 

records. 

William Blumenthal 

General Counsel 

[FR Doc. E8–18098 Filed 8–6–08: 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6750–01–S 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2008–N–0063] (formerly 

Docket No. 2008N–0016) 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Announcement of Office of 

Management and Budget Approval; 

Exports: Notification and 

Recordkeeping Requirements 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) is announcing 

that a collection of information entitled 

‘‘Exports: Notification and 

Recordkeeping Requirements’’ has been 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonna Capezzuto, Office of Information 

Management (HFA–710), Food and Drug 

Administration, 5600 Fishers 

Lane,Rockville, MD 20857, 301–796–

3794. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

Federal Register of May 8, 2008 (73 FR 

26119), the agency announced that the 

proposed information collection had 

been submitted to OMB for review and 

clearance under 44 U.S.C. 3507. An 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

a person is not required to respond to, 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. OMB has now approved the 

information collection and has assigned 

OMB control number 0910–0482. The 

approval expires on July 31, 2011. A 

copy of the supporting statement for this 

information collection is available on 

the Internet at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. 


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