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notice. If any person wishes to comment 

concerning the termination of the 

receivership, such comment must be 

made in writing and sent within thirty 

days of the date of this notice to: Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, Division 

of Resolutions and Receiverships, 

Attention: Receivership Oversight 

Department 34.6, 1601 Bryan Street, 

Dallas, TX 75201. 

No comments concerning the 

termination of this receivership will be 

considered which are not sent within 

this time frame. 

Dated: October 11, 2017. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22290 Filed 10–13–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6714–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or 

Bank Holding Company 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank 

or bank holding company. The factors 

that are considered in acting on the 

notices are set forth in paragraph 7 of 

the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the offices of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than 

November 1, 2017. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 

(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice 

President) 230 South LaSalle Street, 

Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414: 

1. Nathan Halverson, Mason City, 

Iowa; individually and as co-trustee of 

the Richard A. Halverson Disclaimer 

Trust, and as a group acting in concert 

with Kelli Halverson, Scottsdale, 

Arizona, and the Richard A. Halverson 

Disclaimer Trust, Mason City, Iowa, cotrustees Richard A. Halverson and 

Nathan Halverson, both of Mason City, 

Iowa; to join Richard A. Halverson as 

members of the Halverson Family 

Control Group; to retain voting shares of 

Farmers State Bancshares, Inc., Mason 

City, Iowa, and thereby indirectly retain 

shares of Farmers State Bank, 

Northwood, Iowa. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, October 11, 2017. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22353 Filed 10–13–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

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 will also 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. 

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 November 13, 

2017. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 

(Adam M. Drimer, Assistant Vice 

President) 701 East Byrd Street, 

Richmond, Virginia 23261–4528. 

Comments can also be sent 

electronically to or 

Comments.applications@rich.frb.org: 

1. Howard Bancorp, Inc., Ellicott City, 

Maryland; to acquire voting shares of 

First Mariner Bank, Baltimore, 

Maryland. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, October 11, 2017. 

Ann Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22354 Filed 10–13–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Sunshine Act; Notice of Board Member 

Meeting: Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board 

Agenda 

Federal Retirement Thrift Investment 

Board Members’ Meeting, October 23, 

2017, 8:30 a.m. (In-Person). 

Open Session 

1. Approval of the Minutes of the 

September 18, 2017 Board 

Members’ Meeting 

2. Investment Manager Annual Service 

Review 

3. Monthly Reports 

(a) Participant Activity Report 

(b) Legislative Report 

4. Quarterly Reports 

(c) Investment Policy 

(d) Budget Review 

(e) Audit Status 

5. Mid-Year Financial Audit 

6. ORM Annual Report 

7. OEP Annual Report/Survey 

8. Blended Retirement Update 

9. IT Update 

Closed Session 

Information covered under 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(9)(B). 

Adjourn 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Kimberly Weaver, Director, Office of 

External Affairs, (202) 942–1640. 

Dated: October 12, 2017. 

Megan Grumbine, 

General Counsel, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22487 Filed 10–12–17; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6760–01–P 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Federal Trade Commission 

(‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) is seeking 

public comments on its request to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(‘‘OMB’’) for a three-year extension of 

the current PRA clearance for the 

information collection requirements 

contained in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley 

Financial Privacy Rule (GLB Privacy 

Rule). That clearance expires on October 

31, 2017. 


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1On December 4, 2015, Congress amended the 

GLBA as part of the Fixing America’s Surface 

Transportation Act (FAST Act). This amendment, 

titled Eliminate Privacy Notice Confusion (FAST 

Act, Pub. L. 114094, section 75001) added new 

GLBA section 503(f). This subsection provides an 

exception under which financial institutions that 

meet certain conditions are not required to provide 

annual privacy notices to customers. Section 503(f) 

requires that to qualify for this exception, a 

financial institution must not share nonpublic 

personal information about customers except as 

described in certain statutory exceptions, under 

which sharing does not trigger a customer’s 

statutory right to opt out of the sharing. In addition, 

section 503(f)(2) requires that the financial 

institution must not have changed its policies and 

practices with regard to disclosing nonpublic 

personal information from those that the institution 

disclosed in the most recent privacy notice the 

customer received. 

2See FR 31604 (60-Day Federal Register Notice). 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

November 15, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment online or on paper by 

following the instructions in the 

Request for Comments part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Write ‘‘Privacy Rule: Paperwork 

Comment: FTC File No. P085405’’ on 

your comment, and file your comment 

online at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ 

glbfinancialrulepra2 by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. If 

you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, mail your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 

20580, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

Comments on the information 

collection requirements subject to 

review under the PRA should 

additionally be submitted to OMB. If 

sent by U.S. mail, they should be 

addressed to Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attention: 

Desk Officer for the Federal Trade 

Commission, New Executive Office 

Building, Docket Library, Room 10102, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S. 

postal mail-are subject to delays due to 

heightened security precautions. Thus, 

comments can also be sent via email to 

wliberante@omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the proposed information 

requirements should be addressed to 

David Lincicum, Attorney, Division of 

Privacy and Identity Protection, Bureau 

of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 

Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. 

NW., Drop Box 8232, Washington, DC 

20580, (202) 326–2773. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: GLB Privacy Rule (officially 

titled Privacy of Consumer Financial 

Information Rule), 16 CFR part 313. 

OMB Control Number: 3084–0121. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Privacy Rule is 

designed to ensure that customers and 

consumers, subject to certain 

exceptions, will have access to the 

privacy policies of the financial 

institutions with which they conduct 

business. As mandated by the GrammLeach-Bliley Act (GLBA), 15 U.S.C. 

6801–6809, the Rule requires financial 

institutions to disclose to consumers: (1) 

Initial notice of the financial 

institution’s privacy policy when 

establishing a customer relationship 

with a consumer and/or before sharing 

a consumer’s non-public personal 

information with certain nonaffiliated 

third parties; (2) notice of the 

consumer’s right to opt out of 

information sharing with such parties; 

(3) annual notice of the institution’s 

privacy policy to any continuing 

customer; 1 and (4) notice of changes in 

the institution’s practices on 

information sharing. These 

requirements are subject to the PRA. 

The Rule does not require 

recordkeeping. For PRA burden 

calculations the FTC has attributed to 

itself the burden for all motor vehicle 

dealers that do not routinely extend 

credit to consumers directly without 

assigning the credit to unaffiliated third 

parties (hereafter, motor vehicle 

dealers), and then shares equally the 

remaining PRA burden with the CFPB 

for other types of financial institutions 

over which both agencies have 

enforcement authority. See 12 U.S.C. 

5519. 

On July 7, 2017, the Commission 

sought comment on the Rule’s 

information collection requirements.2

The Commission did not receive any 

germane comments. As required by 

OMB regulations, 5 CFR 1320, the FTC 

is providing this second opportunity for 

public comment. 

Privacy Rule Burden Statement 

Estimated annual hours burden: 

1,725,600 annual hours (FTC portion). 

As noted in previous burden 

estimates for the Privacy Rule, 

determining the PRA burden of the 

Rule’s disclosure requirements is very 

difficult because of the highly diverse 

group of affected entities, consisting of 

financial institutions not regulated by a 

Federal financial regulatory agency. See 

15 U.S.C. 6805 (committing to the 

Commission’s jurisdiction entities that 

are not specifically subject to another 

agency’s jurisdiction). 

The burden estimates represent the 

FTC staff’s best assessment, based on its 

knowledge and expertise relating to the 

financial institutions subject to the 

Commission’s jurisdiction under this 

law. To derive these estimates, staff 

considered the wide variations in 

covered entities. In some instances, 

covered entities may make the required 

disclosures in the ordinary course of 

business, apart from the Privacy Rule. In 

addition, some entities may use highly 

automated means to provide the 

required disclosures, while others may 

rely on methods requiring more manual 

effort. The burden estimates shown 

below include the time that may be 

necessary to train staff to comply with 

the regulations. These figures are 

averages based on staff’s best estimate of 

the burden incurred over the broad 

spectrum of covered entities. 

Staff estimates that the number of 

entities each year that will address the 

Privacy Rule for the first time will be 

5,000 and the number of established 

entities already familiar with the Rule 

will be 100,000. While the number of 

established entities familiar with the 

Rule would theoretically increase each 

year with the addition of new entrants, 

staff retains its estimate of established 

entities for each successive year given 

that a number of the established entities 

will close in any given year, and also 

given the difficulty of establishing a 

more precise estimate. 

Staff believes that the usage of the 

model privacy form and the availability 

of the form builder simplify and 

automate much of the work associated 

with creating the disclosure documents 

for new entrants. Staff thus estimates 1 

hour of clerical time and 2 hours of 

professional/technical time per new 

entrant. 

For established entities, staff similarly 

believes that the usage of the model 

privacy form and the availability of the 

Online Form Builder reduces the time 

associated with the modification of the 

notices. Staff thus estimates 7 hours of 

clerical time and 3 hours of 

professional/technical time per 

respondent. Staff estimates that no more 

than 1% of the estimated 100,000 

established-entity respondents would 

make additional changes to privacy 

policies at any time other than the 

occasion of the annual notice. 

Furthermore, under Section 503(f), 

businesses who have not changed their 

privacy notice since the last notice sent 

and who do not share information with 


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non-affiliated third parties outside of 

certain statutory exceptions do not have 

to issue annual notices to their 

customers. Staff estimates that at least 

80% of businesses covered by the rule 

will, accordingly, not be required to 

issue annual notices. 

The complete burden estimates for 

new entrants and established entities 

are detailed in the charts below. 

START-UP HOURS AND LABOR COSTS FOR ALL NEW ENTRANTS (TABLE IA) 

Event Hourly wage and labor category * Hours per 

respondent 

Approximate 

number of 

respondents 

Approximate 

total annual 

hours 

Approximate 

total labor 

costs 

Reviewing internal policies and developing GLB Act-implementing instructions **.$42.76 Professional/Technical ....... 20 5,000 100,000 $4,276,000 

Creating disclosure document or 

electronic disclosure (including initial, annual, and opt-out disclosures).

$17.91 Clerical ...............................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .......

1 

2 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

10,000 

89,550 

427,600 

Disseminating initial disclosure (including opt-out notices).$17.91 Clerical ...............................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .......

15 

10 

5,000 

5,000 

75,000 

50,000 

1,343,250 

2,138,000 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ 240,000 8,274,400 

* Staff calculated labor costs by applying appropriate hourly cost figures to burden hours. The hourly rates used were based on mean wages 

for Financial Examiners and for Office and Administrative Support, corresponding to professional/technical time (e.g., compliance evaluation and/ 

or planning, designing and producing notices, reviewing and updating information systems), and clerical time (e.g., reproduction tasks, filing, and, 

where applicable to the given event, typing or mailing) respectively. See BLS Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2016, Table 1 at http://

www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf. Labor cost totals reflect solely that of the commercial entities affected. Staff estimates that the time 

required of consumers to respond affirmatively to respondents’ opt-out programs (be it manually or electronically) would be minimal. 

** Reviewing instructions includes all efforts performed by or for the respondent to: Determine whether and to what extent the respondent is 

covered by an agency collection of information, understand the nature of the request, and determine the appropriate response (including the creation and dissemination of documents and/or electronic disclosures). 

Burden for established entities 

already familiar with the Rule 

predictably would be less than for 

startup entities because start-up costs, 

such as crafting a privacy policy, are 

generally one-time costs and have 

already been incurred. Staff’s best 

estimate of the average burden for these 

entities is as follows: 

BURDEN HOURS AND COSTS FOR ALL ESTABLISHED ENTITIES (TABLE IB) 

Event Hourly wage and labor category * Hours per 

respondent 

Approximate 

number of 

respondents ** 

Approximate 

total annual 

hrs. 

Approximate 

total labor 

costs 

Reviewing GLB Act-implementing 

policies and practices.

$42.76 Professional/Technical ......... 4 100,000 400,000 $17,104,000 

Disseminating initial notices to new 

customers.

$17.91 Clerical ................................. 15 100,000 1,500,000 26,865,000 

Disseminating annual disclosure to 

pre-existing customers.

$17.91 Clerical .................................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .........

15 

5 

14,000 

14,000 

210,000 

70,000 

3,761,100 

2,993,200 

Changes to privacy policies and related disclosures.$17.91 Clerical .................................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .........

7 

3 

1,000 

1,000 

7,000 

3,000 

125,370 

128,280 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ 2,190,000 50,976,950 

* Staff calculated labor costs by applying appropriate hourly cost figures to burden hours. The hourly rates used were based on mean wages 

for Financial Examiners and for Office and Administrative Support, corresponding to professional/technical time (e.g., compliance evaluation and/ 

or planning, designing and producing notices, reviewing and updating information systems), and clerical time (e.g., reproduction tasks, filing, and, 

where applicable to the given event, typing or mailing) respectively. See BLS Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2016, Table 1 at http://

www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf. Labor cost totals reflect solely that of the affected commercial entities. Consumers have a continuing 

right to opt out, as well as a right to revoke their opt-out at any time. When a respondent changes its information sharing practices, consumers 

are again given the opportunity to opt out. Again, staff assumes that the time required of consumers to respond affirmatively to respondents’ optout programs (be it manually or electronically) would be minimal. 

** The estimate of respondents which are required to disseminate annual notices is based on the following assumptions: (1) 100,000 established respondents, approximately 70% of whom maintain customer relationships exceeding one year, (2) no more than 20% (14,000) of whom 

have made changes to their policies and share nonpublic information outside of the statutory exceptions, and therefore are required to provide 

annual notices under GLBA 503(f). See CFPB, Proposed Rule, 81 FR 44801, 44809 (July 11, 2016); (3) and no more than 1% (1,000) of whom 

make additional changes to privacy policies at any time other than the occasion of the annual notice; and (4) such changes will occur no more 

often than once per year. 

As calculated above, the total annual 

PRA burden hours and labor costs for all 

affected entities in a given year would 

be 2,430,000 hours and $59,251,350, 

respectively. 

The FTC now carves out from these 

overall figures the burden hours and 

labor costs associated with motor 

vehicle dealers. This is because the 

CFPB does not enforce the Privacy Rule 

for those types of entities. We estimate 

the following: 


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ANNUAL START-UP HOURS AND LABOR COSTS FOR NEW MOTOR VEHICLE DEALER ENTRANTS ONLY (TABLE IIA) 

Event Hourly wage and labor category Hours per 

respondent 

Approximate 

number of 

respondents 

(Table IA 

inputs × 

0.57) ** 

Approximate 

total annual 

hrs. 

Approximate 

total labor 

costs 

Reviewing internal policies and developing GLB Act-implementing instructions **.$42.76 Professional/Technical ......... 20 2,100 42,000 $21,795,920 

Creating disclosure document or 

electronic disclosure (including initial, annual, and opt -out disclosures).

$17.91 Clerical .................................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .........

1 

2 

2,100 

2,100 

2,100 

4,200 

37,611 

179,592 

Disseminating initial disclosure (including opt-out notices).$17.91 Clerical .................................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .........

15 

10 

2,100 

2,100 

31,500 

21,000 

564,165 

897,960 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ 100,800 3,475,248 

** Multiply the number of respondents from the comparable table above on all new entrants by the following allocation (43,708/105,000) = 0.42. 

The number in the denominator represents the total of the FTC’s existing Privacy Rule estimates for new entrants (5,000) and established entities (100,000). The numerator represents an estimate of motor vehicle respondents. For this category, Commission staff relied on the following 

industry estimates: 16,708 new car dealers per National Automobile Dealers Association data (2016) and 12,000 independent/used car dealers 

who do not extend credit directly to consumers without routinely assigning the credit to third-parties per National Independent Automobile Dealers 

Association data (2012), respectively, in addition to 15,000 dealers of other motor vehicles (motorcycles, boats, other recreational vehicles) per 

the 2012 economic census, which are also covered within the definition of ‘‘motor vehicle dealer’’ under section 1029(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act. 

ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND LABOR COSTS FOR ESTABLISHED MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS ONLY (TABLE IIB) 

Event Hourly wage and labor category * Hours per 

respondent 

Approximate 

number of 

respondents ** 

(Table IB 

inputs × 0.57) 

Approximate 

total annual 

hrs. 

Approximate 

total labor 

costs 

Reviewing GLB Act-implementing 

policies and practices.

$42.76 Professional/Technical ......... 4 42,000 168,600 $7,209,336 

Disseminating initial notices to new 

customers.

$17.91 Clerical ................................. 15 42,000 630,000 11,283,300 

Disseminating annual disclosure ...... $17.91 Clerical .................................

$42.76 Professional/Technical .........

15 

5 

5,880 

5,880 

88,200 

29,400 

1,579,662 

1,257,144 

Changes to privacy policies and related disclosures.$17.91 Clerical .................................

$42.76 Professional/Technical. ........

7 

3 

420 

420 

2,940 

1,260 

52,655 

53,878 

Total ........................................... ........................................................... ........................ ........................ 920,400 21,435,975 

The FTC’s portion of the annual hourly 

burden would be 1,021,200 + 

((2,430,000¥1,021,200)/2) = 1,725,600 

annual hours. The FTC’s portion of the 

annual cost burden would be 

$24,911,223 + 

$((59,251,350¥24,911,223)/2) = 

$42,081,287. 

Estimated Capital/Other Non-Labor 

Costs Burden 

Staff believes that capital or other 

non-labor costs associated with the 

document requests are minimal. 

Covered entities will already be 

equipped to provide written notices 

(e.g., computers with word processing 

programs, copying machines, mailing 

capabilities). Most likely, only entities 

that already have online capabilities 

will offer consumers the choice to 

receive notices via electronic format. As 

such, these entities will already be 

equipped with the computer equipment 

and software necessary to disseminate 

the required disclosures via electronic 

means. 

Request for Comment 

You can file a comment online or on 

paper. For the FTC to consider your 

comment, we must receive it on or 

before November 15, 2017. Write 

‘‘Privacy Rule: Paperwork Comment: 

FTC File No. P085405’’ on your 

comment. Your comment—including 

your name and your state—will be 

placed on the public record of this 

proceeding, including, to the extent 

practicable, on the public Commission 

Web site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/ 

publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of 

discretion, the Commission tries to 

remove individuals’ home contact 

information from comments before 

placing them on the Commission Web 

site. 

Postal mail addressed to the 

Commission is subject to delay due to 

heightened security screening. As a 

result, we encourage you to submit your 

comments online, or to send them to the 

Commission by courier or overnight 

service. To make sure that the 

Commission considers your online 

comment, you must file it at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ 

glbfinancialrulepra2 by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. 

When this Notice appears at http://

www.regulations.gov, you also may file 

a comment through that Web site. 

If you file your comment on paper, 

write ‘‘Privacy Rule: Paperwork 

Comment: FTC File No. P085405’’ on 

your comment and on the envelope, and 

mail it to the following address: Federal 

Trade Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Suite CC–5610 (Annex J), 

Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your 

comment to the following address: 

Federal Trade Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th 

Street SW., 5th Floor, Suite 5610, 


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Washington, DC 20024. If possible, 

submit your paper comment to the 

Commission by courier or overnight 

service. 

Comments on the information 

collection requirements subject to 

review under the PRA should 

additionally be submitted to OMB. If 

sent by U.S. mail, they should be 

addressed to Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attention: 

Desk Officer for the Federal Trade 

Commission, New Executive Office 

Building, Docket Library, Room 10102, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S. 

postal mail are subject to delays due to 

heightened security precautions. Thus, 

comments can also be sent via email to 

wliberante@omb.eop.gov. 

Because your comment will be placed 

on the publicly accessible FTC Web site 

at https://www.ftc.gov/, you are solely 

responsible for making sure that your 

comment does not include any sensitive 

or confidential information. In 

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 on the public FTC Web 

site—as legally required by FTC Rule 

4.9(b)—we cannot redact or remove 

your comment from the FTC Web site, 

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 November 15, 2017. 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. 

Christian S. White, 

Acting General Counsel. 

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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 seeks public 

comments on its proposal to extend, for 

three years, the current PRA clearance 

for information collection requirements 

contained in its Trade Regulation Rule 

entitled Power Output Claims for 

Amplifiers Utilized in Home 

Entertainment Products (Amplifier Rule 

or Rule) (OMB Control Number 3084– 

0105). That clearance expires on January 

31, 2018. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

December 15, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a 

comment online or on paper by 

following the instructions in the 

Request for Comments part of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below. Write ‘‘Amplifier Rule: FTC File 

No. P974222’’ on your comment, and 

file your comment online at https://

ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ 

amplifierrulepra1 by following the 

instructions on the web-based form. If 

you prefer to file your comment on 

paper, mail your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 

CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 

20580, or deliver your comment to the 

following address: Federal Trade 

Commission, Office of the Secretary, 

Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 

5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be addressed to Jock K. Chung, 

Attorney, Division of Enforcement, 

Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal 

Trade Commission, Mail Code CC–9528, 

600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–2984. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 clearance for 

the information collection requirements 

contained in the Commission’s 

Amplifier Rule, 16 CFR part 432 (OMB 

Control Number 3084–0105). 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. 

The Amplifier Rule assists consumers 

by standardizing the measurement and 

disclosure of power output and other 

performance characteristics of 

amplifiers in stereos and other home 

entertainment equipment. The Rule also 

specifies the test conditions necessary to 

make the disclosures that the Rule 

requires. 


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