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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Federal Trade Commission
(‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The FTC intends to ask the
Office of Management and Budget
(‘‘OMB’’) to extend through January 31,
2015, the current Paperwork Reduction
Act (‘‘PRA’’) clearance for information
the FTC would seek from a combined
ten or more of the largest cigarette
manufacturers and smokeless tobacco
manufacturers. The current clearance
expires on January 31, 2012.
DATES: Comments on the proposed
information requests must be received
on or before December 27, 2011.
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: ‘‘Tobacco Reports:
Paperwork Comment, FTC File No.
P054507’’ on your comment, and file
your comment online at https://
ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
tobaccoreportspra2 by following the
instructions on the web-based form. If
you prefer to file your comment on
paper, mail or deliver your comment to
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the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Room H–113 (Annex J), 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the proposed collection of
information should be addressed to
Shira Modell, Division of Advertising
Practices, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, Federal Trade Commission,
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., NJ–
3212, Washington, DC 20580.
Telephone: (202) 326–3116.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FTC Cigarette and Smokeless
Tobacco Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 3084–0134.
Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Abstract: For more than forty years,
the FTC has published periodic reports
containing data on domestic cigarette
sales and marketing expenditures by the
major U.S. cigarette manufacturers. It
has published comparable reports on
smokeless tobacco sales and marketing
expenditures for more than twenty
years. Both reports originally were
issued pursuant to statutory mandates.
After those statutory mandates ended,
the Commission continued to collect
and publish information obtained from
the cigarette and smokeless tobacco
industries through compulsory process
under the authority of Section 6(b) of
the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(b).
The FTC plans to continue sending
information requests annually to the
ultimate parent company of several of
the largest U.S. cigarette c and
smokeless tobacco companies
(‘‘industry members’’). The information
requests will seek data regarding, among
other things: (1) The tobacco sales of
industry members; (2) how much
industry members spend advertising
and promoting their tobacco products,
and the amounts spent in each of
several specified expenditure categories;
(3) whether industry members are
involved in the appearance of their
products or brand imagery in television
shows, motion pictures, or the Internet;
(4) how much industry members spend
on advertising intended to reduce youth
tobacco use; (5) the events, if any,
during which industry members’
tobacco brands are televised; and (6) for
the cigarette industry, the tar, nicotine,
and carbon monoxide ratings of their
cigarettes, to the extent they possess
such data.1 The information will again
1 Although the Commission has rescinded the
1966 enforcement policy that allowed factual
statements of tar and nicotine yields supported by
testing conducted under what was commonly
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be sought under the authority of Section
6(b) of the FTC Act.
On August 4, 2011, the FTC sought
public comment on its proposed
information collection requests to the
major cigarette and smokeless tobacco
manufacturers. 76 FR 47187. 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 extend
the existing paperwork clearance for the
information collection requests.
Burden Statement 2
Estimated Number of Respondents,
Estimated Average Burden per year per
Respondent
(a) Information requests to the five
largest cigarette companies and five
largest smokeless tobacco companies, at
a per company average each year of 180
hours = 1,800 hours, cumulatively, per
year; and
(b) Information requests to a five
additional respondents, of smaller size,
at a per company average each year of
60 hours = 300 hours, cumulatively, per
year.
Thus, the overall estimated burden for
an assumed maximum of 15 recipients
of the information requests is 2,100
hours per year.3 These estimates include
any time spent by separately
incorporated subsidiaries and other
entities affiliated with the ultimate
parent company that has received the
information request.
Total Annual Labor Cost: $210,000
(2,100 hours per year @ $100 per hour).
Total Annual Capital or Other NonLabor Cost: minimal.4
Request for comment: You can file a
comment online or on paper. For the
Commission to consider your comment,
we must receive it on or before
referred to as ‘‘the FTC Test Method,’’ 73 FR 74500
(Dec. 8, 2008), the Commission believes it is
important to continue collecting these data, which
researchers and policymakers use to track trends
over time.
2 See 76 FR 47187 for further details underlying
the estimates that follow.
3 The Commission intends to use this PRA
clearance renewal to collect information from the
companies regarding their marketing and sales
activities for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Although the Commission anticipates that it will
issue compulsory process orders one year at a time,
it is possible that it might not do so and instead
issue an order in an ensuing year for information
covering two years. The estimates in this notice for
hours and labor costs are annualized to reflect an
average year over the course of a prospective threeyear PRA clearance.
4 Although industry members may have to
preserve relevant business records to accommodate
the Commission’s information requirements, they
already have the means in place to do so.
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December 27, 2011. Write ‘‘Tobacco
Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File
No. P054507’’ 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 https://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, 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 making sure that your comment does
not include any sensitive health
information, such as medical records or
other individually identifiable health
information. In addition, don’t 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). In particular, don’t include
competitively sensitive information,
such as costs, sales statistics,
inventories, formulas, patterns, devices,
manufacturing processes, or customer
names.
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).5 Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the FTC General
Counsel, in his or her sole discretion,
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/
5 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).
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tobaccoreportspra2, by following the
instructions on the web-based form. If
this Notice appears at https://www.
regulations.gov/#!home, you also may
file a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper,
write ‘‘Tobacco Reports: Paperwork
Comment, FTC File No. P054507’’ on
your comment and on the envelope, and
mail or deliver it to the following
address: Federal Trade Commission,
Office of the Secretary, Room H–113
(Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20580. If possible,
submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight
service.
Visit the Commission Web site at
https://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice
and the news release describing it. 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 December 27, 2011. You can find
more information, including routine
uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in
the Commission’s privacy policy, at
https://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)
395–5167.
David C. Shonka,
Acting General Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation; Medicare
Program; Meeting of the Technical
Advisory Panel on Medicare Trustee
Reports
Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
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This notice announces public
meetings of the Technical Advisory
Panel on Medicare Trustee Reports
(Panel). Notice of these meetings is
given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2, section
10(a)(1) and (a)(2)). The Panel will
discuss the long range (75 year)
projection methods and assumptions in
projecting Medicare health expenditures
and projecting National Health
Expenditures and may make
recommendations to the Medicare
Trustees on how the Trustees might
more accurately estimate health
spending in the long run. The Panel’s
discussion is expected to be very
technical in nature and will focus on the
actuarial and economic assumptions
and methods by which Trustees might
more accurately project health
spending. Although panelists are not
limited in the topics they may discuss,
the Panel is not expected to discuss or
recommend changes in current or future
Medicare provider payment rates or
coverage policy.
DATES: Meeting Date: December 14,
2011, 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
HHS headquarters at 200 Independence
Ave., SW., Washington, DC, 20201,
Room TBD.
Comments: The meeting will allocate
time on the agenda to hear public
comments at the end of the meeting. In
lieu of oral comments, formal written
comments may be submitted for the
record to Donald T. Oellerich, OASPE,
200 Independence Ave., SW., 20201,
Room 405F. Those submitting written
comments should identify themselves
and any relevant organizational
affiliations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donald T Oellerich (202) 690–7409,
Don.oellerich@hhs.gov. Note: Although
the meeting is open to the public,
procedures governing security
procedures and the entrance to Federal
buildings may change without notice.
Those wishing to attend the meeting
must call or email Dr. Oellerich by
Monday December 12, 2011, so that
their name may be put on a list of
expected attendees and forwarded to the
security officers at HHS Headquarters.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Topics of
the Meeting: The Panel is specifically
charged with discussing and possibly
making recommendations to the
Medicare Trustees on how the Trustees
might more accurately project health
spending in the United States. The
discussion is expected to focus on
highly technical aspects of estimation
involving economics and actuarial
science. Panelists are not restricted,
SUMMARY:
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'').
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The FTC intends to ask the Office of Management and Budget
(``OMB'') to extend through January 31, 2015, the current Paperwork
Reduction Act (``PRA'') clearance for information the FTC would seek
from a combined ten or more of the largest cigarette manufacturers and
smokeless tobacco manufacturers. The current clearance expires on
January 31, 2012.
DATES: Comments on the proposed information requests must be received
on or before December 27, 2011.
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: ``Tobacco Reports:
Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P054507'' on your comment, and file
your comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/tobaccoreportspra2 by following the instructions on the web-based form.
If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail or deliver your
comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of
the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the proposed collection of information should be addressed to
Shira Modell, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., NJ-
3212, Washington, DC 20580. Telephone: (202) 326-3116.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FTC Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0134.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
Abstract: For more than forty years, the FTC has published periodic
reports containing data on domestic cigarette sales and marketing
expenditures by the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers. It has
published comparable reports on smokeless tobacco sales and marketing
expenditures for more than twenty years. Both reports originally were
issued pursuant to statutory mandates. After those statutory mandates
ended, the Commission continued to collect and publish information
obtained from the cigarette and smokeless tobacco industries through
compulsory process under the authority of Section 6(b) of the FTC Act,
15 U.S.C. 46(b).
The FTC plans to continue sending information requests annually to
the ultimate parent company of several of the largest U.S. cigarette c
and smokeless tobacco companies (``industry members''). The information
requests will seek data regarding, among other things: (1) The tobacco
sales of industry members; (2) how much industry members spend
advertising and promoting their tobacco products, and the amounts spent
in each of several specified expenditure categories; (3) whether
industry members are involved in the appearance of their products or
brand imagery in television shows, motion pictures, or the Internet;
(4) how much industry members spend on advertising intended to reduce
youth tobacco use; (5) the events, if any, during which industry
members' tobacco brands are televised; and (6) for the cigarette
industry, the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide ratings of their
cigarettes, to the extent they possess such data.\1\ The information
will again be sought under the authority of Section 6(b) of the FTC
Act.
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\1\ Although the Commission has rescinded the 1966 enforcement
policy that allowed factual statements of tar and nicotine yields
supported by testing conducted under what was commonly referred to
as ``the FTC Test Method,'' 73 FR 74500 (Dec. 8, 2008), the
Commission believes it is important to continue collecting these
data, which researchers and policymakers use to track trends over
time.
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On August 4, 2011, the FTC sought public comment on its proposed
information collection requests to the major cigarette and smokeless
tobacco manufacturers. 76 FR 47187. 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 extend the existing
paperwork clearance for the information collection requests.
Burden Statement \2\
Estimated Number of Respondents, Estimated Average Burden per year per
Respondent
(a) Information requests to the five largest cigarette companies
and five largest smokeless tobacco companies, at a per company average
each year of 180 hours = 1,800 hours, cumulatively, per year; and
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\2\ See 76 FR 47187 for further details underlying the estimates
that follow.
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(b) Information requests to a five additional respondents, of
smaller size, at a per company average each year of 60 hours = 300
hours, cumulatively, per year.
Thus, the overall estimated burden for an assumed maximum of 15
recipients of the information requests is 2,100 hours per year.\3\
These estimates include any time spent by separately incorporated
subsidiaries and other entities affiliated with the ultimate parent
company that has received the information request.
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\3\ The Commission intends to use this PRA clearance renewal to
collect information from the companies regarding their marketing and
sales activities for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013. Although the
Commission anticipates that it will issue compulsory process orders
one year at a time, it is possible that it might not do so and
instead issue an order in an ensuing year for information covering
two years. The estimates in this notice for hours and labor costs
are annualized to reflect an average year over the course of a
prospective three-year PRA clearance.
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Total Annual Labor Cost: $210,000 (2,100 hours per year @ $100 per
hour).
Total Annual Capital or Other Non-Labor Cost: minimal.\4\
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\4\ Although industry members may have to preserve relevant
business records to accommodate the Commission's information
requirements, they already have the means in place to do so.
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Request for comment: You can file a comment online or on paper. For
the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or
before
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December 27, 2011. Write ``Tobacco Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File
No. P054507'' 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 https://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, 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 making sure that your comment does not include
any sensitive health information, such as medical records or other
individually identifiable health information. In addition, don't
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). In
particular, don't include competitively sensitive information, such as
costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices,
manufacturing processes, or customer names.
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).\5\ Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the FTC General Counsel, in his or her sole
discretion, grants your request in accordance with the law and the
public interest.
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\5\ 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).
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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/tobaccoreportspra2, by following the instructions on the web-based
form. If this Notice appears at https://www.regulations.gov/#!home, you
also may file a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper, write ``Tobacco Reports:
Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P054507'' on your comment and on the
envelope, and mail or deliver it to the following address: Federal
Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your
paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service.
Visit the Commission Web site at https://www.ftc.gov to read this
Notice and the news release describing it. 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 December 27, 2011. You can find more
information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in
the Commission's privacy policy, at https://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) 395-5167.
David C. Shonka,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-30344 Filed 11-23-11; 8:45 am]
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