Agency Information Collection Activities; Reinstatement of Existing Collection; Comment Request, 49924-49925 [05-16888]

Download as PDF 49924 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 164 / Thursday, August 25, 2005 / Notices 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 19, 2005. A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Patrick M. Wilder, Assistant Vice President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414: 1. CCB Acquisition Corp., Oak Brook, Illinois; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Citizens Central Bancorp, Inc., Macomb, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire the voting shares of Citizens National Bank, Macomb, Illinois. 2. Commercial Bancshares, Inc., Whitewater, Wisconsin; to become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of Commercial Bank, Whitewater, Wisconsin. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 19, 2005. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 05–16887 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Notice of Proposals to Engage in Permissible Nonbanking Activities or to Acquire Companies that are Engaged in Permissible Nonbanking Activities; Correction This notice corrects a notice (FR Doc. 05-16249) published on page 48422 of the issue for Wednesday, August 17, 2005. Under the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis heading, the entry for Frandsen Financial Corporation, Arden Hills, Minnesota, is revised to read as follows: A. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Jacqueline G. King, Community Affairs Officer) 90 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55480-0291: 1. Frandsen Financial Corporation, Forest Lake, Minnesota; to acquire QCF Bancorp, Virginia, Minnesota, and VerDate jul<14>2003 15:58 Aug 24, 2005 Jkt 205001 thereby indirectly acquire Queen City Federal Savings Bank, Virginia, Minnesota, and engage in owning and operating a savings and loan association, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation Y. Comments on this application must be received by September 9, 2005. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, August 19, 2005. Robert deV. Frierson, Deputy Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 05–16886 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6210–01–S FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities; Reinstatement of Existing Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (Commission or FTC). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The FTC intends to conduct a survey of consumers to advance its understanding of the incidence of identity theft (‘‘ID Theft’’) and to allow the FTC to better serve the people who experience it and the law enforcement agencies that investigate and prosecute it. The survey is a follow-up to the FTC’s ID Theft Survey conducted in March 2003 and released in September 2003. Before gathering this information, the FTC is seeking public comments on its proposed consumer research. Comments will be considered before the FTC submits a request for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 24, 2005. ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments. Comments should refer to ‘‘ID Theft Survey: FTC File No. P034303’’ to facilitate the organization of comments. A comment filed in paper form should include this reference both in the text and on the envelope and should be mailed or delivered, with two complete copies, to the following address: Federal Trade Commission/Office of the Secretary, Room H–135 (Annex E), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580. Because paper mail in the Washington area and at the Commission is subject to delay, please consider submitting your comments in electronic form, as prescribed below. However, if the comment contains any material for which confidential treatment is requested, it must be filed in paper form, and the first page of the PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 document must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential.’’ 1 The FTC is requesting that any comment filed in paper form be sent by courier or overnight service, if possible. Comments filed in electronic form should be submitted by clicking on the following Web link: https:// secure.commentworks.com/FTCIDTSurvey 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 the https:// secure.commentworks.com/FTCIDTSurvey Web link. If this notice appears at https://www.regulations.gov, you may also file an electronic comment through that Web site. The Commission will consider all comments that 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 Web site, 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 Web site. More information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC’s privacy policy at https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/ privacy.htm. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information should be addressed to Joanna P. Crane, Program Manager, Federal Trade Commission ID Theft Program, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326–3228. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA, 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). In 2003, OMB approved the FTC’s request to conduct a survey on ID Theft and assigned OMB 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). E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 164 / Thursday, August 25, 2005 / Notices Control Number 3084–0124. The FTC completed the consumer research in April 2003 and issued its report, Federal Trade Commission—Identity Theft Survey Report, in September 2003.2 As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the FTC is providing this opportunity for public comment before requesting that OMB reinstate the clearance for the survey, which expired in June 2003. The FTC invites comments on: (1) Whether the proposed collections of information are necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the FTC, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the FTC’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collections of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of collecting 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. All comments should be filed as prescribed in the ADDRESSES section above, and must be received on or before October 24, 2005. 1. Description of the Collection of Information and Proposed Use The FTC proposes to survey up to 5,000 consumers in order to gather specific information on the incidence of ID Theft in the general population. All information will be collected on a voluntary basis, and the identities of the consumers will remain confidential. Subject to OMB approval for the survey, the FTC has contracted with a consumer research firm to identify consumers and conduct the survey. The results will assist the FTC in determining the incidence of ID Theft in the general population and whether the type and frequency of ID Theft is changing, and will inform the FTC about how best to combat ID Theft. ID Theft has been the top consumer complaint reported to the FTC since calendar year 2000. The information collected by the survey will ensure that the FTC has accurate and timely information on the extent of ID Theft and its impact on victims. This information will be highly useful to Congress and others who often request statistical information on ID Theft from the FTC. The FTC intends to use a larger sample size than the 2003 survey to 2 The Report is available at https://www.ftc.gov/os/ 2003/09/synovatereport.pdf. VerDate jul<14>2003 15:58 Aug 24, 2005 Jkt 205001 allow for a more in-depth analysis of the resulting data. The additional data points will allow for statistically significant samples for particular types of ID Theft and particular demographic characteristics. The questions will be very similar to the 2003 survey so that the results from the 2003 survey can be used as a baseline for a time-series analysis.3 The FTC may choose to conduct another follow-up survey in approximately two years. 2. Estimated Hours Burden The FTC will pretest the survey on approximately 100 respondents to ensure that all questions are easily understood. This pretest will take approximately 3 minutes on average per person and 5 hours as a whole (100 respondents × 3 minutes each). Based on FTC staff’s experience with the 2003 survey, the staff estimates that approximately 12 percent of those interviewed will have experienced ID Theft within the last 5 years. Survey participants who have not experienced ID Theft in this period of time will only be asked the initial 4 or 5 survey questions. The staff expects that this will take less than 2 minutes. For those who have experienced ID Theft in the last 5 years, our experience with the earlier survey suggests that it will take about 12 to 15 minutes to complete the survey. The staff therefore anticipates that the average time per survey participant will be approximately 3 minutes. Answering the consumer survey will require approximately 250 hours as a whole (5,000 respondents × 3 minutes each). Thus, cumulative total burden hours for the first year of the clearance will approximate 255 hours. 3. Estimated Cost Burden The cost per respondent should be negligible. Participation is voluntary and will not require start-up, capital, or labor expenditures by respondents. Christian S. White, Acting General Counsel. [FR Doc. 05–16888 Filed 8–24–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750–01–P FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ACTION: Notice. 3 The questionnaire for the 2003 survey is available as Appendix A to the Report. PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 49925 SUMMARY: The FTC is seeking public comments on its proposal to extend through December 31, 2008 the current Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’) clearance for information collection requirements contained in its Fuel Rating Rule (‘‘Rule’’). That clearance expires on December 31, 2005. DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 24, 2005. ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments. Comments should refer to ‘‘Fuel Rating Rule: FTC File No. R811005’’ to facilitate the organization of comments. A comment filed in paper form should include this reference both in the text and on the envelope and should be mailed or delivered, with two complete copies, to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Room H 135 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20580. Because paper mail in the Washington area and at the Commission is subject to delay, please consider submitting your comments in electronic form, (in ASCII format, WordPerfect, or Microsoft Word) as part of or as an attachment to e-mail messages directed to the following email box: paperworkcomment@ftc.gov. However, if 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 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 Web site. More information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC’s privacy policy at https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/ privacy.htm. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or copies of the proposed information 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). E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities; Reinstatement of 
Existing Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (Commission or FTC).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The FTC intends to conduct a survey of consumers to advance 
its understanding of the incidence of identity theft (``ID Theft'') and 
to allow the FTC to better serve the people who experience it and the 
law enforcement agencies that investigate and prosecute it. The survey 
is a follow-up to the FTC's ID Theft Survey conducted in March 2003 and 
released in September 2003. Before gathering this information, the FTC 
is seeking public comments on its proposed consumer research. Comments 
will be considered before the FTC submits a request for Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) review under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
(PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 24, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments. 
Comments should refer to ``ID Theft Survey: FTC File No. P034303'' to 
facilitate the organization of comments. A comment filed in paper form 
should include this reference both in the text and on the envelope and 
should be mailed or delivered, with two complete copies, to the 
following address: Federal Trade Commission/Office of the Secretary, 
Room H-135 (Annex E), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20580. Because paper mail in the Washington area and at the Commission 
is subject to delay, please consider submitting your comments in 
electronic form, as prescribed below. However, if 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\ The FTC is requesting that any comment 
filed in paper form be sent by courier or overnight service, if 
possible.
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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).
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    Comments filed in electronic form should be submitted by clicking 
on the following Web link: https://secure.commentworks.com/FTC-
IDTSurvey 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 the https://secure.commentworks.com/
FTC-IDTSurvey Web link. If this notice appears at https://
www.regulations.gov, you may also file an electronic comment through 
that Web site. The Commission will consider all comments that 
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 Web site, 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 Web site. More information, including 
routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC's 
privacy policy at https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information 
should be addressed to Joanna P. Crane, Program Manager, Federal Trade 
Commission ID Theft Program, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC 20580, (202) 326-3228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Under the PRA, 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). In 2003, OMB approved the 
FTC's request to conduct a survey on ID Theft and assigned OMB

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Control Number 3084-0124. The FTC completed the consumer research in 
April 2003 and issued its report, Federal Trade Commission--Identity 
Theft Survey Report, in September 2003.\2\ As required by section 
3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the FTC is providing this opportunity for 
public comment before requesting that OMB reinstate the clearance for 
the survey, which expired in June 2003.
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    \2\ The Report is available at https://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/09/
synovatereport.pdf.
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    The FTC invites comments on: (1) Whether the proposed collections 
of information are necessary for the proper performance of the 
functions of the FTC, including whether the information will have 
practical utility; (2) the accuracy of the FTC's estimate of the burden 
of the proposed collections of information; (3) ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(4) ways to minimize the burden of collecting 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. All comments should be filed as prescribed in 
the ADDRESSES section above, and must be received on or before October 
24, 2005.

1. Description of the Collection of Information and Proposed Use

    The FTC proposes to survey up to 5,000 consumers in order to gather 
specific information on the incidence of ID Theft in the general 
population. All information will be collected on a voluntary basis, and 
the identities of the consumers will remain confidential. Subject to 
OMB approval for the survey, the FTC has contracted with a consumer 
research firm to identify consumers and conduct the survey. The results 
will assist the FTC in determining the incidence of ID Theft in the 
general population and whether the type and frequency of ID Theft is 
changing, and will inform the FTC about how best to combat ID Theft.
    ID Theft has been the top consumer complaint reported to the FTC 
since calendar year 2000. The information collected by the survey will 
ensure that the FTC has accurate and timely information on the extent 
of ID Theft and its impact on victims. This information will be highly 
useful to Congress and others who often request statistical information 
on ID Theft from the FTC.
    The FTC intends to use a larger sample size than the 2003 survey to 
allow for a more in-depth analysis of the resulting data. The 
additional data points will allow for statistically significant samples 
for particular types of ID Theft and particular demographic 
characteristics. The questions will be very similar to the 2003 survey 
so that the results from the 2003 survey can be used as a baseline for 
a time-series analysis.\3\ The FTC may choose to conduct another 
follow-up survey in approximately two years.
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    \3\ The questionnaire for the 2003 survey is available as 
Appendix A to the Report.
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2. Estimated Hours Burden

    The FTC will pretest the survey on approximately 100 respondents to 
ensure that all questions are easily understood. This pretest will take 
approximately 3 minutes on average per person and 5 hours as a whole 
(100 respondents x 3 minutes each). Based on FTC staff's experience 
with the 2003 survey, the staff estimates that approximately 12 percent 
of those interviewed will have experienced ID Theft within the last 5 
years. Survey participants who have not experienced ID Theft in this 
period of time will only be asked the initial 4 or 5 survey questions. 
The staff expects that this will take less than 2 minutes. For those 
who have experienced ID Theft in the last 5 years, our experience with 
the earlier survey suggests that it will take about 12 to 15 minutes to 
complete the survey. The staff therefore anticipates that the average 
time per survey participant will be approximately 3 minutes. Answering 
the consumer survey will require approximately 250 hours as a whole 
(5,000 respondents x 3 minutes each). Thus, cumulative total burden 
hours for the first year of the clearance will approximate 255 hours.

3. Estimated Cost Burden

    The cost per respondent should be negligible. Participation is 
voluntary and will not require start-up, capital, or labor expenditures 
by respondents.

Christian S. White,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 05-16888 Filed 8-24-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6750-01-P
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