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ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burden and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–
3520), the Federal Communications
Commission invites the general public
and other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on the
following information collection(s).
Comments are requested concerning:
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Commission’s
burden estimate; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and ways to
further reduce the information burden
for small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor
a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. No person shall be subject to
any penalty for failing to comply with
a collection of information subject to the
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Written Paperwork Reduction
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If you anticipate that you will be
submitting PRA comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, you should
advise the FCC contact listed below as
soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Submit your PRA comments
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Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To
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submit your PRA comments by email
send them to: PRA@fcc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Judith B. Herman, Office of Managing
Director, (202) 418–0214.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060–0876.
Title: Section 54.703, USAC Board of
Directors Nomination Process and
Sections 54.719 through 54.725, Review
of the Administrator’s Decision.
Form Number: N/A.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other forprofit entities and not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 432
respondents; 432 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 20
hours to 32 hours.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
reporting requirement and third party
disclosure requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
Statutory authority for this information
collection is contained in 47 U.S.C.
Sections 151 through 154, 201 through
205, 218 through 220, 254, 303(r), 403
and 405.
Total Annual Burden: 13,680 hours.
Total Annual Cost: N/A.
Privacy Impact Assessment: N/A.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality:
The Commission is not requesting that
respondents submit confidential
information to the FCC. However,
respondents may request confidential
treatment of their information under 47
CFR 0.459 of the Commission’s rules.
Needs and Uses: The Commission is
seeking OMB approval for an extension
of this information collection in order to
obtain their full three year approval.
There is no change to the reporting and/
or third party disclosure requirements.
There is a change to the Commission’s
burden estimates. We are reporting a
28,160 burden reduction adjustment.
This reduction is due to a reduction in
the number of respondents based on
updated information.
The information in this collection is
used by the Commission to select
Universal Service Administrative
Company (USAC) Board of Directors
and to ensure that requests for review
are filed properly with the Commission.
Section 54.703 states that industry
and non-industry groups may submit to
the Commission for approval
nominations for individuals to be
appointed to the USAC Board of
Directors.
Sections 54.719 through 54.725
describes the procedures for
Commission review of USAC decisions
including the general filing
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may file requests for review.
Federal Communications Commission.
Bulah P. Wheeler,
Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary,
Office of Managing Director.
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Agency Information Collection
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Review; Comment Request
Federal Trade Commission
(‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘FTC’’).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The FTC intends to conduct
an evaluation of Admongo, its
advertising literacy program for children
ages 8–12. The evaluation will involve
a randomized controlled trial of the
Admongo program involving 6,000–
8,000 students. This research will be
conducted to further the FTC’s mission
of protecting consumers from unfair and
deceptive marketing. The information
SUMMARY:
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collection requests described below are
being submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget for review, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act (‘‘PRA’’).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a
comment online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the
Request for Comment sub-part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below. Write ‘‘Admongo Evaluation,
FTC File No. P085200’’ on your
comment, and file your comment online
at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/
ftc/admongoevaluationPRA2, by
following the instructions on the Webbased 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
should be addressed to David Givens,
Economist, Bureau of Economics,
Federal Trade Commission, 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mail Stop
NJ–4136, Washington, DC 20580.
Telephone: (202) 326–3397.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
As the nation’s consumer protection
agency, the FTC is responsible for
enforcing laws that prohibit unfair and
deceptive advertising and marketing
practices. Part of this mission involves
educating consumers, including young
consumers. In April 2010, the FTC
launched a youth-directed multi-media
advertising literacy campaign called
Admongo and distributed
accompanying lesson plans to 100,000
educators in every U.S. public school
with a fifth or sixth grade class.
Admongo aims to help children from 8
to 12 become more discerning
consumers of information. The program
has three broad objectives: (1) Raising
awareness of advertising and marketing
messages; (2) teaching critical thinking
skills that will allow children to better
analyze and interpret advertisements;
and (3) demonstrating the benefits of
being an informed consumer. The
program teaches students specific skills:
How to identify ads, how to identify the
ways advertisers target certain groups of
consumers, how to spot persuasive
techniques commonly employed by ads,
and how to apply an understanding of
advertising techniques to make smarter
purchases. The campaign includes an
online game, in-school lesson plans,
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sample ads that can be used at home
and in the classroom, and teacher
videos. All materials can be viewed at
www.admongo.gov.
The proposed evaluation will test a
large group of students in these skills
and then compare the performance of
those who have been exposed to the
Admongo curriculum with those who
have not. The results will give the FTC
valuable insight into the optimal design
of youth-directed consumer education.
Specifically, the FTC is interested in:
Pre-existing levels of ad literacy by age,
the average effect of the Admongo
program on ad literacy, and the
variation in Admongo’s effect by age
and other demographic and academic
characteristics.1 The FTC also intends to
interview teachers who have used the
Admongo lessons in their classrooms.
Teacher feedback will help us tailor the
lessons to real-world classroom
conditions.
II. Paperwork Reduction Act
Under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3521,
federal agencies must get OMB approval
for each collection of information they
conduct or sponsor. ‘‘Collection of
information’’ means agency requests or
requirements that members of the public
to submit reports, keep records, or
provide information to a third party. 44
U.S.C. 3502(3), 5 CFR 1320.3(c).
On December 2, 2011, the FTC sought
public comment on the information
collection requests associated with the
proposed Admongo evaluation study.2
No comments were received. Pursuant
to the OMB regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, that implement the PRA, the
Commission is providing this second
opportunity for public comment.
As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A)
of the PRA, the FTC is providing this
opportunity for public comment while
pursuing OMB approval for the
Admongo study.
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 the collection of information.
1 All student-level data will be stripped of
personally identifiable information by participating
school districts before it reaches the FTC.
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A. Description of the Collection of
Information and Proposed Use
Subject to OMB approval, the FTC
will conduct a randomized trial of the
Admongo program in one or more
school districts, involving 6,000–8,000
students ages 8–12. Classrooms in each
participating school will be randomly
assigned to treatment or control status.
In the treatment classrooms, the
Admongo lesson plans will be taught
over the course of one week, and
students will be given in-class time to
play the online Admongo game. At the
end of the trial, treatment students will
take a test in advertising literacy.
Students in the control classrooms will
take the same test before they are
exposed to Admongo.3 Admongo’s
effect on ad literacy will be estimated
from the difference in test scores.
Additional controls measuring
classroom, student, and teacher
characteristics will increase the
precision of the estimate of Admongo’s
impact.
B. Estimated Burden Hours
Each student’s typical social studies
or language arts teacher will teach the
Admongo lessons. The paper-based test
will last approximately 20 minutes. The
time required to experience the
Admongo lessons, play the online game,
and take the test should total
approximately five hours and twenty
minutes per student (four 45-minute inclass lessons, one hour of online game
playing, one hour of homework
assignments, and 20 minutes for the
test). With an estimated 6,000–8,000
students involved,4 cumulative burden
for students will be in the range of
32,000–42,667 hours. Teachers will
require the same time per task as
students, but will also need time for
lesson planning—estimated at four
hours per teacher. Thus, with an
estimated 240–320 teachers involved,5
their time commitment, will range from
2,240 to 2,987 hours. The combined
time for the Admongo trial should thus
fall in the range of 34,240–45,654 hours.
These estimates likely overstate the
actual time burden of the study. The
Admongo lesson plans, tied to national
standards of learning, will satisfy preexisting content requirements for
3 With this protocol, the FTC gets a valid control
group while still providing all experiment
participants the benefit of the treatment.
4 Based on an anticipated school district’s
participation and its approximate student
composition at present.
5 Based on an estimated class size of 25 students
and assuming a unique teacher for each classroom.
[6,000 ÷ 25 = 240; 8,000 ÷ 25 = 320]
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participating schools.6 Thus, the
incremental PRA burden for teachers
and students would be much less than
the estimates shown above.7 For
example, if only the time required to
take or administer the 20-minute test is
considered, the resulting total would be
a small fraction of the totals noted
above.
A few participating teachers (20–40)
also will take part in focus group
discussions, lasting approximately 90
minutes. The estimated teacher time in
focus groups, including an added hour
of round-trip transportation to and from
the discussion site, is 50–100 hours.
Finally, administering the study will
impose a small time burden on school
district staff charged with scoring the
tests and with compiling a master data
set of 8–12 year-old students, stripped
of personally identifiable information
(to facilitate random assignment to
treatment and control groups). These
programming and data management
tasks should take approximately 10–15
hours.
The cumulative burden for
participating students, teachers, and
school district staff for the Admongo
evaluation will total 34,300–45,769
hours. Again, however, the bulk of this
time would be subsumed within preexisting classroom requirements.
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C. Estimated Costs
The cost per respondent should be
negligible in both the evaluation and
focus group components of the study.
The participation of the school district
in the evaluation is voluntary, and the
district will use the Admongo program
to meet curriculum requirements. Thus,
participation in the evaluation study
will not impose any start-up, capital, or
labor expenditures beyond those
ordinarily incurred by the district to
administer curriculum units.
Participation by students in the
evaluation and teachers in the focus
groups also will be voluntary and not
impose any start-up, capital, or labor
expenditures. Teachers participating in
the focus groups will be compensated at
the standard rate paid by the contractor
to focus group participants. The school
district will be compensated for the cost
of the staff time to perform the data
management and test-scoring tasks.
D. Request for Comment
You can file a comment online or on
paper. For the Commission to consider
6 See
https://www.admongo.gov/state-standards/.
5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2)(A) (a collection of
information incurred by persons in the normal
course of their activities is excluded from ‘‘burden’’
to the extent that the activities necessary to comply
with it are ‘‘usual and customary’’).
7 See
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your comment, we must receive it on or
before September 4, 2012. Write
‘‘Admongo Evaluation, FTC File No.
P085200’’ 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, like 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, like 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).8 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. To make sure that the
Commission considers your online
comment, you must file it at https://
ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
admongoevaluationPRA2, by following
8 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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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 ‘‘Admongo Evaluation, FTC File
No. P085200’’ 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 September 4, 2012. 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.
Willard K. Tom,
General Counsel.
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[60-Day 12–0840]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement
of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for
opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic
summaries of proposed projects. To
request more information on the
proposed projects or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and
instruments, call 404–639–7570 and
send comments to Kim Lane, CDC
Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton
Road, MS–D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an email to omb@cdc.gov.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``Commission'' or ``FTC'').
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The FTC intends to conduct an evaluation of Admongo, its
advertising literacy program for children ages 8-12. The evaluation
will involve a randomized controlled trial of the Admongo program
involving 6,000-8,000 students. This research will be conducted to
further the FTC's mission of protecting consumers from unfair and
deceptive marketing. The information
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collection requests described below are being submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget for review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act (``PRA'').
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the Request for Comment sub-part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``Admongo Evaluation,
FTC File No. P085200'' on your comment, and file your comment online at
https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/admongoevaluationPRA2, 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
should be addressed to David Givens, Economist, Bureau of Economics,
Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mail Stop NJ-
4136, Washington, DC 20580. Telephone: (202) 326-3397.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
As the nation's consumer protection agency, the FTC is responsible
for enforcing laws that prohibit unfair and deceptive advertising and
marketing practices. Part of this mission involves educating consumers,
including young consumers. In April 2010, the FTC launched a youth-
directed multi-media advertising literacy campaign called Admongo and
distributed accompanying lesson plans to 100,000 educators in every
U.S. public school with a fifth or sixth grade class. Admongo aims to
help children from 8 to 12 become more discerning consumers of
information. The program has three broad objectives: (1) Raising
awareness of advertising and marketing messages; (2) teaching critical
thinking skills that will allow children to better analyze and
interpret advertisements; and (3) demonstrating the benefits of being
an informed consumer. The program teaches students specific skills: How
to identify ads, how to identify the ways advertisers target certain
groups of consumers, how to spot persuasive techniques commonly
employed by ads, and how to apply an understanding of advertising
techniques to make smarter purchases. The campaign includes an online
game, in-school lesson plans, sample ads that can be used at home and
in the classroom, and teacher videos. All materials can be viewed at
www.admongo.gov.
The proposed evaluation will test a large group of students in
these skills and then compare the performance of those who have been
exposed to the Admongo curriculum with those who have not. The results
will give the FTC valuable insight into the optimal design of youth-
directed consumer education. Specifically, the FTC is interested in:
Pre-existing levels of ad literacy by age, the average effect of the
Admongo program on ad literacy, and the variation in Admongo's effect
by age and other demographic and academic characteristics.\1\ The FTC
also intends to interview teachers who have used the Admongo lessons in
their classrooms. Teacher feedback will help us tailor the lessons to
real-world classroom conditions.
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\1\ All student-level data will be stripped of personally
identifiable information by participating school districts before it
reaches the FTC.
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II. Paperwork Reduction Act
Under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521, federal agencies must get OMB
approval for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor.
``Collection of information'' means agency requests or requirements
that members of the public to submit reports, keep records, or provide
information to a third party. 44 U.S.C. 3502(3), 5 CFR 1320.3(c).
On December 2, 2011, the FTC sought public comment on the
information collection requests associated with the proposed Admongo
evaluation study.\2\ No comments were received. Pursuant to the OMB
regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, that implement the PRA, the Commission is
providing this second opportunity for public comment.
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\2\ 76 FR 75549.
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As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the FTC is
providing this opportunity for public comment while pursuing OMB
approval for the Admongo study.
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 the collection of information.
A. Description of the Collection of Information and Proposed Use
Subject to OMB approval, the FTC will conduct a randomized trial of
the Admongo program in one or more school districts, involving 6,000-
8,000 students ages 8-12. Classrooms in each participating school will
be randomly assigned to treatment or control status. In the treatment
classrooms, the Admongo lesson plans will be taught over the course of
one week, and students will be given in-class time to play the online
Admongo game. At the end of the trial, treatment students will take a
test in advertising literacy. Students in the control classrooms will
take the same test before they are exposed to Admongo.\3\ Admongo's
effect on ad literacy will be estimated from the difference in test
scores. Additional controls measuring classroom, student, and teacher
characteristics will increase the precision of the estimate of
Admongo's impact.
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\3\ With this protocol, the FTC gets a valid control group while
still providing all experiment participants the benefit of the
treatment.
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B. Estimated Burden Hours
Each student's typical social studies or language arts teacher will
teach the Admongo lessons. The paper-based test will last approximately
20 minutes. The time required to experience the Admongo lessons, play
the online game, and take the test should total approximately five
hours and twenty minutes per student (four 45-minute in-class lessons,
one hour of online game playing, one hour of homework assignments, and
20 minutes for the test). With an estimated 6,000-8,000 students
involved,\4\ cumulative burden for students will be in the range of
32,000-42,667 hours. Teachers will require the same time per task as
students, but will also need time for lesson planning--estimated at
four hours per teacher. Thus, with an estimated 240-320 teachers
involved,\5\ their time commitment, will range from 2,240 to 2,987
hours. The combined time for the Admongo trial should thus fall in the
range of 34,240-45,654 hours.
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\4\ Based on an anticipated school district's participation and
its approximate student composition at present.
\5\ Based on an estimated class size of 25 students and assuming
a unique teacher for each classroom. [6,000 / 25 = 240; 8,000 / 25 =
320]
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These estimates likely overstate the actual time burden of the
study. The Admongo lesson plans, tied to national standards of
learning, will satisfy pre-existing content requirements for
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participating schools.\6\ Thus, the incremental PRA burden for teachers
and students would be much less than the estimates shown above.\7\ For
example, if only the time required to take or administer the 20-minute
test is considered, the resulting total would be a small fraction of
the totals noted above.
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\6\ See https://www.admongo.gov/state-standards/.
\7\ See 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2)(A) (a collection of information
incurred by persons in the normal course of their activities is
excluded from ``burden'' to the extent that the activities necessary
to comply with it are ``usual and customary'').
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A few participating teachers (20-40) also will take part in focus
group discussions, lasting approximately 90 minutes. The estimated
teacher time in focus groups, including an added hour of round-trip
transportation to and from the discussion site, is 50-100 hours.
Finally, administering the study will impose a small time burden on
school district staff charged with scoring the tests and with compiling
a master data set of 8-12 year-old students, stripped of personally
identifiable information (to facilitate random assignment to treatment
and control groups). These programming and data management tasks should
take approximately 10-15 hours.
The cumulative burden for participating students, teachers, and
school district staff for the Admongo evaluation will total 34,300-
45,769 hours. Again, however, the bulk of this time would be subsumed
within pre-existing classroom requirements.
C. Estimated Costs
The cost per respondent should be negligible in both the evaluation
and focus group components of the study. The participation of the
school district in the evaluation is voluntary, and the district will
use the Admongo program to meet curriculum requirements. Thus,
participation in the evaluation study will not impose any start-up,
capital, or labor expenditures beyond those ordinarily incurred by the
district to administer curriculum units. Participation by students in
the evaluation and teachers in the focus groups also will be voluntary
and not impose any start-up, capital, or labor expenditures. Teachers
participating in the focus groups will be compensated at the standard
rate paid by the contractor to focus group participants. The school
district will be compensated for the cost of the staff time to perform
the data management and test-scoring tasks.
D. 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 September 4,
2012. Write ``Admongo Evaluation, FTC File No. P085200'' 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, like 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, like 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).\8\ 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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\8\ 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. To make sure that the Commission considers your
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/admongoevaluationPRA2, 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 ``Admongo Evaluation, FTC
File No. P085200'' 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 September 4, 2012. 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.
Willard K. Tom,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2012-18846 Filed 8-1-12; 8:45 am]
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