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AGENCY:
Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”).
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The FTC intends to ask the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) to extend for an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (“PRA”) clearance for information collection requirements contained in its rule on Use of Prenotification Negative Option Plans (“Negative Option Rule” or “Rule”). That clearance expires on December 31, 2014.
DATES:
Comments must be submitted by November 5, 2014.
ADDRESSES:
Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write “Negative Option Rule: FTC File No. P064202” on your comment. File your comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/NegOptionPRA2 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.
Start Further InfoFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information should be addressed to Robert M. Frisby, Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mailstop-CC-9528, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-2098.
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Title: Negative Option Rule, 16 CFR part 425.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0104.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
Abstract: On July 24, 2014, the Commission sought comment on the information collection requirements associated with the Negative Option Rule. No comments were received. Pursuant to the OMB regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, that implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the FTC is providing a second opportunity for the public to comment while seeking OMB approval to renew the pre-existing clearance for the Rule.
Estimated Annual Burden: 3,125 hours.
Estimated Number of Respondents, Estimated Average Burden per Year per Respondent: (35 existing clubs × 75 hours each of disclosure burden per year) + (5 new clubs per year × 100 hours each, including start-up time).[1]
Estimated annual cost burden: $153,950 (solely related to labor costs).
Estimated Capital or Other Non-Labor Cost: $0 or de minimis.
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 5, 2014. Write “Negative Option Rule: FTC File No. P064202” 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.
Because your comment will be made public, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive personal information, like anyone'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, like medical records or Start Printed Page 60165other individually identifiable health information. In addition, do not include any “[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information which is obtained from any person and which is privileged or confidential . . . , ” as provided in 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). If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for confidential treatment, and you have to follow the procedure explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).[2] Your comment will be kept confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest.
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/NegOptionPRA2 by following the instructions on the Web-based form. If this Notice appears at http://www.regulations.gov/#!home,, you also may file a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper, write “Negative Option Rule: FTC File No. P064202” 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 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20024. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service.
Visit the Commission Web site at http://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice. 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 5, 2014. You can find more information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in the Commission's privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.
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, however, are subject to delays due to heightened security precautions. Thus, comments instead should be sent by facsimile to (202) 395-5806.
Start SignatureDavid C. Shonka,
Principal Deputy General Counsel.
Footnotes
1. The details and assumptions underlying these estimates and for estimated annual labor and non-labor costs were set forth in the July 24, 2014 Federal Register notice.
Back to Citation2. 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), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
Back to Citation[FR Doc. 2014-23682 Filed 10-3-14; 8:45 am]
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Document Information
- Published:
- 10/06/2014
- Department:
- Federal Trade Commission
- Entry Type:
- Notice
- Action:
- Notice.
- Document Number:
- 2014-23682
- Dates:
- Comments must be submitted by November 5, 2014.
- Pages:
- 60164-60165 (2 pages)
- PDF File:
- 2014-23682.pdf