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Federal Trade Commission.
Notice.
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) requests that the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) extend for an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (“PRA”) clearance for information collection requirements contained in the Commission's rules and regulations under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (“Textile Rules”). That clearance expires on June 30, 2024.
Comments must be filed by July 22, 2024.
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. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function.
Jock K. Chung, Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Mail Code CC-9528, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-2984.
Title of Collection: Rules and Regulations under the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act, 16 CFR part 303.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0101.
Type of Review: Extension without change of currently approved collection.
Abstract: The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (“Textile Act”) [1] prohibits the misbranding and false advertising of textile fiber products. The Textile Rules establish disclosure requirements that assist consumers in making informed purchasing decisions, and recordkeeping requirements that assist the Commission in enforcing the Rules. The Rules also contain a petition procedure for requesting the establishment of generic names for textile fibers.
Likely Respondents: Manufacturers, importers, processors, and marketers of textile fiber products.
Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure; recordkeeping requirement.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 43,234,317 hours (1,180,725 recordkeeping hours + 42,053,592 disclosure hours).
Estimated Annual Cost Burden: $329,576,903.84.[2]
Estimated Annual Non-Labor Costs: $0 or de minimis.
Request for Comment:
On January 19, 2024, the FTC sought public comment on the information collection requirements associated with the Rules. 89 FR 3659 (Jan. 19, 2024). No relevant comments were received during the public comment period. Pursuant to OMB regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, that implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the FTC is providing this second opportunity for public comment while seeking OMB approval to renew the pre-existing clearance for the Rules. For more details about the Textile Rules' requirements and the basis for the calculations summarized above, see 89 FR 3659.
Your comment—including your name and your state—will be placed on the public record of this proceeding. Because your comment will be made public, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive personal information, such as 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 ensuring 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 “[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information 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)—including, in particular, competitively sensitive information, such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.
Josephine Liu,
Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel.
1. 15 U.S.C. 70 et seq.
Back to Citation2. The hourly wage rates are updated from the 60-Day Federal Register Notice, which was published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2024 (89 FR 3659), and now are based on data through May 2023 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics Survey at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm (released on Apr. 3, 2024).
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