Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 46092-46094 [2012-18846]

Download as PDF 46092 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices Dated: July 23, 2012. Jane Diamond, Director, Superfund Division. [FR Doc. 2012–18870 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Information Collection(s) Being Reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission, Comments Requested Federal Communications Commission. 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 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) that does not display a valid OMB control number. SUMMARY: Written Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) comments should be submitted on or before October 1, 2012. 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 to Judith B. Herman, Federal Communications Commission, via the Internet at Judith-b.herman@fcc.gov. To mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES DATES: VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:15 Aug 01, 2012 Jkt 226001 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 PO 00000 Frm 00077 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 requirements pursuant to which parties may file requests for review. Federal Communications Commission. Bulah P. Wheeler, Deputy Manager, Office of the Secretary, Office of Managing Director. [FR Doc. 2012–18829 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS ANNOUNCMENT: 77 FR 44617 (July 30, 2012). Thursday, August 2, 2012 At 10 a.m. PLACE: 999 E Street NW., Washington, DC (Ninth Floor). STATUS: This meeting will be open to the public. CHANGES IN THE MEETING: The following item has been added to the agenda: Draft Advisory Opinion 2012–28: CTIA—The Wireless Association. Individuals who plan to attend and require special assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should contact Shawn Woodhead Werth, Secretary and Clerk, at (202) 694–1040, at least 72 hours prior to the meeting date. PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: (202) 694–1220. DATE AND TIME: Signed: Shawn Woodhead Werth, Secretary and Clerk of the Commission. [FR Doc. 2012–18954 Filed 7–31–12; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 6715–01–P FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 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: E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM 02AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 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, VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:15 Aug 01, 2012 Jkt 226001 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. 2 76 FR 75549. PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 46093 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] E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM 02AUN1 46094 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices 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. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 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 VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:15 Aug 01, 2012 Jkt 226001 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). PO 00000 Frm 00079 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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] BILLING CODE 6750–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [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 E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM 02AUN1

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


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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    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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