Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 58415-58416 [05-20102]
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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 193 / Thursday, October 6, 2005 / Notices
www.ftc.gov/os/2005/09/index.htm. A
paper copy can be obtained from the
FTC Public Reference Room, Room 130–
H, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20580, either in person
or by calling (202) 326–2222.
Public comments are invited, and may
be filed with the Commission in either
paper or electronic form. All comments
should be filed as prescribed in the
ADDRESSES section above, and must be
received on or before the date specified
in the DATES section.
Analysis of Agreement Containing
Consent Order To Aid Public Comment
The Federal Trade Commission has
accepted a consent agreement, subject to
final approval, from Superior Mortgage
Corp. (‘‘Superior Mortgage’’). Superior
Mortgage is a mortgage lender
specializing in residential mortgage
loans with headquarters in Tuckerton,
New Jersey. Superior Mortgage collects
sensitive customer information,
including customer names, Social
Security numbers, credit histories, and
bank and credit card account numbers,
and is a ‘‘financial institution’’ subject
to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s
Standards for Safeguarding Customer
Information Rule, 16 CFR part 314
(‘‘Safeguards Rule’’).
The proposed consent order has been
placed in the public record for thirty
(30) days for receipt of comments by
interested persons. Comments received
during this period will become part of
the public record. After thirty (30) days,
the Commission will again review the
agreement and the comments received
and will decide whether it should
withdraw from the agreement and take
other appropriate action or make final
the agreement’s proposed order.
This matter concerns Superior
Mortgage’s alleged violations of the
Safeguards Rule, as well as alleged
security misrepresentations to
consumers on Superior Mortgage’s Web
site. The Safeguards Rule, which
became effective on May 23, 2003,
requires financial institutions to
implement reasonable policies and
procedures to ensure the security and
confidentiality of customer information,
including:
• Designating one or more employees
to coordinate the information security
program;
• Identifying reasonably foreseeable
internal and external risks to the
security, confidentiality, and integrity of
customer information, and assessing the
sufficiency of any safeguards in place to
control those risks;
• Designing and implementing
information safeguards to control the
risks identified through risk assessment,
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and regularly testing or otherwise
monitoring the effectiveness of the
safeguards’ key controls, systems, and
procedures;
• Overseeing service providers, and
requiring them by contract to protect the
security and confidentiality of customer
information; and
• Evaluating and adjusting the
information security program in light of
the results of testing and monitoring,
changes to the business operation, and
other relevant circumstances.
The Commission’s complaint alleges
that Superior Mortgage failed to
implement the protections required by
the Safeguards Rule and, specifically,
that it failed to: (1) Assess risks to its
customer information until more than a
year after the Safeguard Rule’s effective
date; (2) institute appropriate password
policies to control access to company
systems and documents containing
sensitive customer information; (3)
encrypt or otherwise protect sensitive
customer information before sending it
by e-mail; and (4) take reasonable steps
to ensure that its service providers were
providing appropriate security for
customer information and addressing
known security risks in a timely
fashion.
The complaint also alleges that
Superior Mortgage violated section 5 of
the Federal Trade Commission Act
(‘‘FTC Act’’) by representing that the
personal information it obtained from
consumers through https://
www.supmort.com was encrypted using
SSL from the time of submission until
receipt by Superior Mortgage, when in
fact that information was encrypted
only while it was being transmitted
between a visitor’s Web browser and the
Web site’s server (using SSL); once the
information reached the server, it was
decrypted and e-mailed to Superior
Mortgage’s headquarters and branch
offices in clear, readable text.
The proposed order contains
provisions designed to prevent Superior
Mortgage from future practices similar
to those alleged in the complaint.
Specifically, part I of the proposed order
prohibits Superior Mortgage from
misrepresenting the extent to which it
maintains and protects the privacy,
confidentiality, or security of any
personal information collected from or
about consumers. Part II of the proposed
order prohibits Superior Mortgage from
violating the Safeguards Rule. Part III of
the proposed order requires that
Superior Mortgage obtain, within 180
days after being served with the final
order approved by the Commission, and
on a biennial basis thereafter for ten (10)
years, an assessment and report from a
qualified, objective, independent third-
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party professional, certifying that: (1)
Superior Mortgage has in place a
security program that provides
protections that meet or exceed the
protections required by the Safeguards
Rule, and (2) Superior Mortgage’s
security program is operating with
sufficient effectiveness to provide
reasonable assurance that the security,
confidentiality, and integrity of
nonpublic personal information has
been protected. This provision is
substantially similar to comparable
provisions obtained in prior
Commission orders under the
Safeguards Rule and Section 5 of the
FTC Act. See, e.g., Sunbelt Lending
Servs., Inc., FTC Docket No. C–4129
(Jan. 7, 2005); Tower Records, FTC
Docket No. C–4110 (June 2, 2004).
Part III of the proposed order also
requires Superior Mortgage to retain
documents relating to compliance. For
the assessments and supporting
documents, Superior Mortgage must
retain the documents for three (3) years
after the date that each assessment is
prepared.
Parts IV through VII of the proposed
order are reporting and compliance
provisions. Part IV requires
dissemination of the order now and in
the future to persons with supervisory
responsibilities. Part V ensures
notification to the FTC of changes in
corporate status. Part VI mandates that
Superior Mortgage submit compliance
reports to the FTC. Part VII is a
provision ‘‘sunsetting’’ the order after
twenty (20) years, with certain
exceptions.
The purpose of this analysis is to
facilitate public comment on the
proposed order. It is not intended to
constitute an official interpretation of
the proposed order or to modify its
terms in any way.
By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: OS–0990–0268]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Office of the Secretary; HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
AGENCY:
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Office of the Secretary (OS), Department
of Health and Human Services, is
publishing the following summary of a
proposed collection for public
comment. Interested persons are invited
to send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
Type of Information Collection
Request: Regular Clearance, Extension
of a currently approved collection.
Title of Information Collection:
Service Use and Transition of Private
Long-Term Care Insurance.
Form/OMB No.: OS–0990–0268.
Use: This is a longitudinal study of an
admission cohort of private long-term
care insurance claimants. A
representative sample of claimants from
nine companies will be followed for
twenty months to better understand
how they select and use services.
Frequency: Reporting.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Annual Number of Respondents:
1,650.00.
Total Annual Responses: 6,755.00.
Average Burden per Response: 1⁄2
hour.
Total Annual Hours: 3,720.00.
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access the HHS Web
site address at https://www.hhs.gov/
oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-mail your
request, including your address, phone
number, OMB number, and OS
document identifier, to
naomi.cook@hhs.gov, or call the Reports
Clearance Office on (202) 690–6162.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collections must be
received with 60-days, and directed to
the OS Paperwork Clearance Officer at
the following address:
Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the Secretary,
Assistant Secretary for Budget,
Technology, and Finance, Office of
Information and Resource
Management, Attention: Naomi Cook
(0990–0268), Room 531–H, 200
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Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington DC 20201.
Dated: September 28, 2005.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction
Act Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 05–20102 Filed 10–5–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
[30Day–05–0134]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of
information collection requests under
review by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) in compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance
Officer at (404) 371–5983 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written
comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, Washington,
DC or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
Foreign Quarantine Regulations, OMB
No. 0920–0134—Revision—National
Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description:
Section 361 of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 264)
authorizes the Secretary of Health and
Human Services (DHHS) to make and
enforce regulations necessary to prevent
the introduction, transmission, or
spread of communicable diseases from
foreign countries into the United States.
Legislation and the existing regulations
governing foreign quarantine activities
(42 CFR part 71) authorize quarantine
officers and other personnel to inspect
and undertake necessary control
measures with respect to conveyances,
persons, and shipments of animals and
etiologic agents entering the United
States from foreign ports in order to
protect the public health.
Under foreign quarantine regulations,
the master of a ship or captain of an
airplane entering the United States from
a foreign port is required by public
health law to report certain illnesses
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among passengers (42 CFR 71.21)(b). In
this revision, CDC proposes adding two
additional reporting requirements. First,
in addition to the aforementioned list of
required illnesses to be reported, CDC is
asking that reports be made for the
following conditions, which may
indicate a reportable illness: (1)
Hemorrhagic fever syndrome (persistent
fever accompanied by abnormal
bleeding from any site); or (2) acute
respiratory syndrome (severe cough or
severe respiratory disease of less than 3
weeks in duration); or (3) acute onset of
fever and severe headache,
accompanied by stiff neck or change in
level of consciousness. CDC has the
authority to collect personal health
information to protect the health of the
public under the authority of section
301 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C.).
Second, CDC proposes adding the
Passenger Locator Form currently under
OMB control number 0920–0664 to
OMB control number 0920–0134. The
Passenger Locator Form is used to
collect reliable information that assists
quarantine officers in locating in a
timely manner those passengers and
crew who are exposed to communicable
diseases of public health importance
while traveling on a conveyance.
Additional burden hours for the
voluntary reporting of additional certain
illnesses and the Passenger Locator
Form are reflected in the burden hour
table below. DHHS delegates authority
to CDC to conduct quarantine control
measures. Currently, with the exception
of rodent inspections and the cruise
ship sanitation program, inspections are
performed only on those vessels and
aircraft which report illness prior to
arrival or when illness is discovered
upon arrival. Other inspection agencies
assist quarantine officers in public
health screening of persons, pets, and
other importations of public health
significance and make referrals to PHS
when indicated. These practices and
procedures assure protection against the
introduction and spread of
communicable diseases into the United
States with a minimum of
recordkeeping and reporting as well as
a minimum of interference with trade
and travel.
Respondents include airplane pilots,
ships’ captains, importers, and travelers.
The nature of the quarantine response
would dictate which forms are
completed by whom. There are no costs
to respondents except for their time.
The total estimated annual burden
hours are 225,759.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
[Document Identifier: OS-0990-0268]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary; HHS.
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
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Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and Human Services,
is publishing the following summary of a proposed collection for public
comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this
burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including any of the following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of
the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Type of Information Collection Request: Regular Clearance,
Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title of Information Collection: Service Use and Transition of
Private Long-Term Care Insurance.
Form/OMB No.: OS-0990-0268.
Use: This is a longitudinal study of an admission cohort of private
long-term care insurance claimants. A representative sample of
claimants from nine companies will be followed for twenty months to
better understand how they select and use services.
Frequency: Reporting.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Annual Number of Respondents: 1,650.00.
Total Annual Responses: 6,755.00.
Average Burden per Response: \1/2\ hour.
Total Annual Hours: 3,720.00.
To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access the HHS
Web site address at https://www.hhs.gov/oirm/infocollect/pending/ or e-
mail your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number,
and OS document identifier, to naomi.cook@hhs.gov, or call the Reports
Clearance Office on (202) 690-6162. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed information collections must be
received with 60-days, and directed to the OS Paperwork Clearance
Officer at the following address:
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary,
Assistant Secretary for Budget, Technology, and Finance, Office of
Information and Resource Management, Attention: Naomi Cook (0990-0268),
Room 531-H, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington DC 20201.
Dated: September 28, 2005.
Robert E. Polson,
Office of the Secretary, Paperwork Reduction Act Reports Clearance
Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-20102 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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