Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension
| Published date | 08 February 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 8640 |
| Record Number | 2021-02471 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Federal Trade Commission |
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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 24 / Monday, February 8, 2021 / Notices
Respondents: Small municipal waste
combustion facilities.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart
BBBB).
Estimated number of respondents: 23.
Frequency of response: Semiannually
and annually.
Estimated annual burden: 102,000
hours.
Estimated annual cost: $11,500,000,
includes $1,040,000 annualized capital
or O&M costs.
Changes in estimates: There is no
change in burden from the previous ICR.
(41) Docket ID Number: EPA–HQ–
OAR–2020–0666; Standards of
Performance for Stationary Compression
Ignition Internal Combustion Engines
(40 CFR part 60, subpart IIII) (Renewal);
EPA ICR Number 2196.07; OMB Control
Number 2060–0590; Expiration date
May 31, 2022.
Respondents: Stationary compression
ignition internal combustion engine
facilities.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart IIII).
Estimated number of respondents:
206,885.
Frequency of response: Annually.
Estimated annual burden: 408,000
hours.
Estimated annual cost: $46,700,000,
includes $167,000 annualized capital or
O&M costs.
Changes in estimates: There is a
projected increase in burden due to an
increase in the number of sources
subject to the regulation.
(42) Docket ID Number: EPA–HQ–
OAR–2020–0671; Standards of
Performance for New Residential
Hydronic Heaters and Forced-Air
Furnaces (40 CFR part 60, subpart
QQQQ) (Renewal); EPA ICR Number
2442.04; OMB Control Number 2060–
0693; Expiration date May 31, 2022.
Respondents: Residential hydronic
heater and forced-air furnace
manufacturers, EPA-approved testing
laboratories, and third-party certifiers.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart
QQQQ).
Estimated number of respondents: 50.
Frequency of response: Annually.
Estimated annual burden: 4,270
hours.
Estimated annual cost: $4,770,000,
includes $4,280,000 annualized capital
or O&M costs.
Changes in estimates: There is no
change in burden from the previous ICR.
(43) Docket ID Number: EPA–HQ–
OAR–2020–0647; Standards of
Performance for Storage Vessels for
Petroleum Liquids for which
Construction, Reconstruction, or
Modification Commenced After June 11,
1973, and Prior to May 19, 1978 (40 CFR
part 60, subpart K) (Renewal); EPA ICR
Number 1797.09; OMB Control Number
2060–0442; Expiration date June 30,
2022.
Respondents: Facilities that store
petroleum liquids in storage vessels
with a storage capacity greater than
151,416 liters (40,000 gallons) but not
exceeding 246,052 liters (65,000
gallons).
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 60, subpart K).
Estimated number of respondents: 69.
Frequency of response: Annually.
Estimated annual burden: 321 hours.
Estimated annual cost: $36,500,
includes no annualized capital or O&M
costs.
Changes in estimates: There is no
change in burden from the previous ICR.
Dated: January 20, 2021.
Penny Lassiter,
Director, Sector Policies and Programs
Division.
[FR Doc. 2021–02520 Filed 2–5–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
[Public Notice: 2021–6003]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
AGENCY
: Export-Import Bank of the
United States.
ACTION
: Submission for OMB review and
comments request.
SUMMARY
: The Export-Import Bank of
the United States (EXIM), as a part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
Agencies to comment on the proposed
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The collection provides EXIM staff with
the information necessary to monitor
the borrower’s payments for exported
goods covered under its short and
medium-term export credit insurance
policies. It also alerts EXIM staff of
defaults, so they can manage the
portfolio in an informed manner.
DATES
: Comments must be received on
or before April 9, 2021 to be assured of
consideration.
ADDRESSES
: Comments may be
submitted electronically on
WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV or by mail
to Mia Johnson, Export-Import Bank of
the United States, 811 Vermont Ave.
NW Washington, DC 20571. Form can
be viewed at https://www.exim.gov/
sites/default/files/forms/eib10-05.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Title and Form Number: EIB 92–29
Export-Import Bank Report of Premiums
Payable for Exporters Only.
OMB Number: 3048–0017.
Type of Review: Regular.
Need and Use: The ‘‘Report of
Premiums Payable for Exporters Only’’
form is used by exporters to report and
pay premiums on insured shipments to
various foreign buyers under the terms
of the policy and to certify that
premiums have been correctly
computed and remitted. Individual
transactions that an exporter may have
with the same foreign borrower can be
sub-totaled and entered as a single line
item for the specific month provided the
length of payment term is identical. The
use of sub-totals reduces the
administrative burden on the exporter.
The ‘Report of Premiums Payable for
Exporters Only’ is used by the Bank to
determine the eligibility of the
shipment(s) and to calculate the
premium due to Ex-Im Bank for its
support of the shipment(s) under its
insurance program.
Affected Public: This form affects
entities involved in the export of U.S.
goods and services.
Annual Number of Respondents:
2600.
Estimated Time per Respondent: 15
minutes.
Annual Burden Hours: 650 hours.
Frequency of Reporting or Use:
Monthly.
Government Expenses:
Reviewing Time per Year: 1,950
hours.
Average Wages per Hour: $42.50.
Average Cost per Year: $82,875.
Benefits and Overhead: 20%.
Total Government Cost: $99,450.
Bassam Doughman,
IT Specialist.
[FR Doc. 2021–02541 Filed 2–5–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6690–01–P
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension
AGENCY
: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC or Commission) is seeking public
comment on its proposal to extend for
an additional three years the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
clearance for information collection
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Page one from comment by Kevin M. Burke,
President and CEO, American Apparel & Footwear
Association, March 26, 2012, Advance Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Public Comment;
Rules and Regulations under the Wool Products
Labeling Act of 1939; 77 FR 4498 (Jan. 30, 2012).
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5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2).
requirements in the Commission’s rules
and regulations under the Wool
Products Labeling Act of 1939 (Wool
Rules). That clearance expires on May
31, 2021.
DATES
: Comments must be received on
or before April 9, 2021.
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 ‘‘Wool Rules; PRA
Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’ on
your comment, and file your comment
online at https://www.regulations.gov 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
: 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
:
Title: Rules and Regulations under the
Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, 16
CFR part 300.
OMB Control Number: 3084–0100.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Likely Respondents: Manufacturers,
importers, processors and marketers of
wool products.
Frequency of Response: Third party
disclosure; recordkeeping requirement.
Estimated annual hours burden:
1,880,000 hours (160,000 recordkeeping
hours + 1,720,000 disclosure hours).
Recordkeeping: 160,000 hours [4,000
wool firms incur an average 40 hours
per firm].
Disclosure: 1,720,000 hours [240,000
hours for determining label content +
480,000 hours to draft and order labels
+ 1,000,000 hours to attach labels].
Estimated annual cost burden:
$25,620,000 (solely relating to labor
costs).
Abstract: The Wool Products Labeling
Act of 1939 (Wool Act) prohibits the
misbranding of wool products. The
Wool Rules establish disclosure
requirements that assist consumers in
making informed purchasing decisions
and recordkeeping requirements that
assist the Commission in enforcing the
Rules.
As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A)
of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), 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 Wool
Rules.
Burden Statement
Staff’s burden estimates for the Wool
Rules are based on data from the
Department of Commerce’s Bureau of
the Census, the International Trade
Commission, the Department of Labor’s
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and
data or other input from the main
industry association, the American
Apparel and Footwear Association
(AAFA), and from SICCode.com, which
specializes in the business classification
of SIC (Standard Industrial
Classification) and NAICS (North
American Industry Classification
System) codes for business
identification, verification, and
targeting. The AAFA, a national trade
association which represents U.S.
apparel, footwear and other sewn
products companies and their suppliers,
has stated that ‘‘[t]he use of labels on
textiles and apparels is beneficial to
consumers, manufacturers, and business
in general as it allows for the necessary
flow of information along the supply
chain.’’
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The relevant information
collection requirements in these rules
and staff’s corresponding burden
estimates follow. The estimates address
the number of hours needed and the
labor costs incurred to comply with the
requirements. Staff believes that a
significant portion of hours and labor
costs currently attributable to burden
below are time and financial resources
usually and customarily incurred by
persons in the course of their regular
activity (e.g., industry participants
already have and/or would have care
labels regardless of the Rules) and could
be excluded from PRA-related burden.
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Estimated annual hours burden:
1,880,000 hours (160,000 recordkeeping
hours + 1,720,000 disclosure hours).
Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that
approximately 4,000 wool firms are
subject to the Wool Rules’
recordkeeping requirements. Based on
an average annual burden of 40 hours
per firm, the total recordkeeping burden
is 160,000 hours.
Disclosure: Approximately 8,000 wool
firms, producing or importing about
600,000,000 wool products annually,
are subject to the Wool Rules’ disclosure
requirements. Staff estimates the burden
of determining label content to be 30
hours per year per firm, or a total of
240,000 hours, and the burden of
drafting and ordering labels to be 60
hours per firm per year, or a total of
480,000 hours. Staff believes that the
process of attaching labels is now fully
automated and integrated into other
production steps for about 40 percent of
all affected products. For the remaining
360,000,000 items (60 percent of
600,000,000), the process is semi-
automated and requires an average of
approximately ten seconds per item, for
a total of 1,000,000 hours per year.
Thus, the total estimated annual burden
for all firms is 1,720,000 hours (240,000
hours for determining label content +
480,000 hours to draft and order labels
+ 1,000,000 hours to attach labels). Staff
believes that any additional burden
associated with advertising disclosure
requirements would be minimal (less
than 10,000 hours) and can be
subsumed within the burden estimates
set forth above.
Estimated annual cost burden:
$25,620,000, rounded to the nearest
thousand (solely relating to labor costs).
The chart below summarizes the total
estimated costs.
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The wage rate for supervisors of office and
administrative support workers is based on data
through May 2019 from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
Survey at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
ocwage.htm (released on March 31, 2020).
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The wage rate for correspondence clerks is
based on recent data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics
Survey at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
ocwage.htm.
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For imported products, the labels generally are
attached in the country where the products are
manufactured. According to information compiled
by an industry trade association using data from the
U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade
Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau,
approximately 97.5% of apparel used in the United
States is imported. With the remaining 2.5%
attributable to U.S. production at an approximate
domestic hourly wage of $12 to attach labels, staff
has calculated a weighted average hourly wage of
$6.50 per hour attributable to U.S. and foreign labor
combined.
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This estimate includes the wage rate for
correspondence clerks.
Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost
Determine label content ...............................................................................................................
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$29.00 240,000 $6,960,000
Draft and order labels ..................................................................................................................
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9.00 480,000 9,120,000
Attach labels ................................................................................................................................
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6.50 1,000,000 6,500,000
Recordkeeping .............................................................................................................................
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19.00 160,000 3,040,000
Total ...................................................................................................................................... ........................ ........................ 25,620,000
Staff believes that there are no current
start-up costs or other capital costs
associated with the Wool Rules. Because
the labeling of wool products has been
an integral part of the manufacturing
process for decades, manufacturers have
in place the capital equipment
necessary to comply with the Rules.
Based on knowledge of the industry,
staff believes that much of the
information required by the Wool Act
and Rules would be included on the
product label even absent their
requirements. Similarly, recordkeeping
and advertising disclosures are tasks
performed in the ordinary course of
business so that covered firms would
incur no additional capital or other non-
labor costs as a result of the Rules.
Request for Comments
Pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, 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 maintaining records and
providing disclosures to consumers. All
comments must be received on or before
April 9, 2021.
You can file a comment online or on
paper. For the FTC to consider your
comment, we must receive it on or
before April 9, 2021. Write ‘‘Wool Rules;
PRA Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’
on your comment. Your comment—
including your name and your state—
will be placed on the public record of
this proceeding, including the https://
www.regulations.gov website.
Due to the public health emergency in
response to the COVID–19 outbreak and
the agency’s heightened security
screening, postal mail addressed to the
Commission will be subject to delay. We
encourage you to submit your comments
online through the https://
www.regulations.gov website.
If you prefer to file your comment on
paper, write ‘‘Wool Rules; PRA
Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’ on
your comment and on the envelope, and
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. If possible,
submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight
service.
Because your comment will become
publicly available at https://
www.regulations.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 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 April 9, 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.
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BILLING CODE 6750–01–P
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
OFFICE
System of Records
AGENCY
: Government Accountability
Office.
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