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Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)
(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part
225), and all other applicable statutes
and regulations to become a bank
holding company and/or to acquire the
assets or the ownership of, control of, or
the power to vote shares of a bank or
bank holding company and all of the
banks and nonbanking companies
owned by the bank holding company,
including the companies listed below.
The public portions of the
applications listed below, as well as
other related filings required by the
Board, if any, are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at
the offices of the Board of Governors.
This information may also be obtained
on an expedited basis, upon request, by
contacting the appropriate Federal
Reserve Bank and from the Board’s
Freedom of Information Office at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/
request.htm. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
standards enumerated in the BHC Act
(12 U.S.C. 1842(c)).
Comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the
Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of
the Board of Governors, Ann E.
Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington DC 20551–0001, not later
than March 25, 2021.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City (Dennis Denney, Assistant Vice
President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas
City, Missouri 64198–0001:
1. Banner County Ban Corporation
Employee Stock Ownership Plan and
Trust, Harrisburg, Nebraska; to acquire
additional voting shares, for a total of
44.60 percent of the voting shares of
Banner County Ban Corporation, and
thereby indirectly acquire additional
voting shares of Banner Capital Bank,
both of Harrisburg, Nebraska.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco (Sebastian Astrada, Director,
Applications) 101 Market Street, San
Francisco, California 94105–1579:
1. Carpenter Acquisition Corporation,
Newport Beach, California; to become a
bank holding company by acquiring the
voting shares of First Colorado Financial
Corp., and thereby indirectly acquire
First Colorado National Bank, both of
Paonia, Colorado.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 18, 2021.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or
Bank Holding Company
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (Act) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank
or bank holding company. The factors
that are considered in acting on the
applications are set forth in paragraph 7
of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The public portions of the
applications listed below, as well as
other related filings required by the
Board, if any, are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at
the offices of the Board of Governors.
This information may also be obtained
on an expedited basis, upon request, by
contacting the appropriate Federal
Reserve Bank and from the Board’s
Freedom of Information Office at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/
request.htm. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
standards enumerated in paragraph 7 of
the Act.
Comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the
Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of
the Board of Governors, Ann E.
Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later
than March 10, 2021.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(Robert L. Triplett III, Senior Vice
President) 2200 North Pearl Street,
Dallas, Texas 75201–2272:
1. Lloyd Myatt Hancock, Anita
Ramsey Richards, both of Sugarland,
Texas; John W. Hancock, Jr., Karen Irene
Jenkins, William R. Jenkins, Jr., William
R. ‘‘Chip’’ Jenkins, III, and Susan
Richards, all of El Campo, Texas; John
W. ‘‘Trey’’ Hancock, III, Austin, Texas;
Richard Myatt Ramsey, Danevang,
Texas; and Phyllis Ramsey Lawhon,
Lampasas, Texas; as members of the
control group, a group acting in concert,
to retain voting shares of Louise
Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly
retain voting shares of First State Bank,
both of Louise, Texas, and Dilley State
Bank, Dilley, Texas. Additionally, the
John W. Hancock, Jr. SB Trust and Rita
Hancock, as trustee, both of El Campo,
Texas, to become members of the
control group and acquire voting shares
of Louise Bancshares, Inc., and thereby
indirectly acquire voting shares of First
State Bank and Dilley State Bank.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, February 18, 2021.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension
Federal Trade Commission.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC or Commission) is seeking public
comment on its proposal to extend for
an additional three years the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
clearance for information collection
requirements in the Commission’s rules
and regulations under the Textile Fiber
Products Identification Act (Textile
Rules). That clearance expires on May
31, 2021.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before April 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a
comment online or on paper by
following the instructions in the
Request for Comments part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below. Write ‘‘Textile Rules; PRA
Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’ on
your comment, and file your comment
online at https://www.regulations.gov by
following the instructions on the webbased form. If you prefer to file your
comment on paper, mail your comment
to the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite
CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC
20580, or deliver your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW,
5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J),
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jock
K. Chung, Attorney, Division of
Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, Federal Trade Commission,
Mail Code CC–9528, 600 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580, (202)
326–2984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Rules and Regulations under the
Textile Fiber Products Identification
Act, 16 CFR part 303.
OMB Control Number: 3084–0101.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
SUMMARY:
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Likely Respondents: Manufacturers,
importers, processors and marketers of
textile fiber products.
Frequency of Response: Third party
disclosure; recordkeeping requirement.
Estimated annual hours burden:
37,234,317 hours (1,180,725
recordkeeping hours + 36,053,592
disclosure hours).
Recordkeeping: 1,180,725 hours
(approximately 18,165 textile firms
incur average burden of 65 hours per
firm).
Disclosure: 36,053,592 hours (621,725
hours to determine label content +
765,200 hours to draft and order labels
+ 34,666,667 hours to attach labels).
Estimated annual cost burden:
$280,335,935 (solely relating to labor
costs).
Abstract: The Textile Fiber Products
Identification Act (Textile Act) 1
prohibits the misbranding and false
advertising of textile fiber products. The
Textile Rules establish disclosure
requirements that assist consumers in
making informed purchasing decisions,
and recordkeeping requirements that
assist the Commission in enforcing the
Rules. The Rules also contain a petition
procedure for requesting the
establishment of generic names for
textile fibers.
As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A)
of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), the
FTC is providing this opportunity for
public comment before requesting that
OMB extend the existing clearance for
the information collection requirements
contained in the Commission’s Textile
Rules.
Textile Rules Burden Statement
Staff’s burden estimates are based on
data from the Department of
Commerce’s Bureau of the Census and
International Trade Administration, the
Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS), and data or other input
from the main industry association, the
American Apparel and Footwear
Association (AAFA), and from
SICCode.com, which specializes in the
business classification of SIC (Standard
Industrial Classification) and NAICS
(North American Industry Classification
System) codes for business
identification, verification, and
targeting. The AAFA, a national trade
association that represents U.S. apparel,
footwear and other sewn products
companies and their suppliers, has
stated that ‘‘[t]he use of labels on
textiles and apparels is beneficial to
consumers, manufacturers, and business
in general as it allows for the necessary
flow of information along the supply
chain.’’ 2 The relevant information
collection requirements in these Rules
and staff’s corresponding burden
estimates follow. The estimates address
the number of hours needed and the
labor costs incurred to comply with the
requirements. Staff believes that a
significant portion of hours and labor
costs currently attributable to burden
below are time and financial resources
usually and customarily incurred by
persons in the course of their regular
activity (e.g., industry participants
already have and/or would have fiber
content labels regardless of the Rules)
and could be excluded from PRArelated burden.3
Estimated annual hours burden:
37,234,317 hours (1,180,725
recordkeeping hours + 36,053,592
disclosure hours).
Task
Hourly rate
Determine label content ...............................................................................................................
Draft and order labels ..................................................................................................................
Attach labels ................................................................................................................................
Recordkeeping .............................................................................................................................
1 15
U.S.C. 70 et seq.
one from comment by Kevin M. Burke,
President and CEO, American Apparel & Footwear
Association, March 26, 2012, Advance Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Public Comment;
Rules and Regulations under the Wool Products
Labeling Act of 1939; 77 FR 4498 (Jan. 30, 2012).
3 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2).
4 The estimated consumption of garments in the
U.S. in 2012 was 19.4 billion. However, staff
estimates that 1 billion garments are exempt from
the Textile Act (i.e., any kind of headwear and
garments made from something other than a textile
fiber product, such as leather) or are subject to a
special exemption for hosiery products sold in
packages where the label information is contained
on the package. Based on available data, staff
estimates that an additional 3 billion household
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Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that
approximately 18,165 textile firms are
subject to the Textile Rules’
recordkeeping requirements. Based on
an average burden of 65 hours per firm,
the total recordkeeping burden is
1,180,725 hours.
Disclosure: Approximately 9,565
textile firms, producing or importing
about 20.8 billion textile fiber products
annually, are subject to the Textile
Rules’ disclosure requirements.4 Staff
estimates the burden of determining
label content to be 65 hours per year per
firm, or a total of 621,725 hours. and the
burden of drafting and ordering labels to
be 80 hours per firm per year, or a total
of 765,200 hours. Staff believes that the
process of attaching labels is now fully
automated and integrated into other
production steps for about 40 percent of
all affected products. For the remaining
12.48 billion items (60 percent of 20.8
billion), the process is semi-automated
and requires an average of
approximately ten seconds per item, for
a total of 34,666,667 hours per year.
Thus, the total estimated annual
disclosure burden for all firms is
36,053,592 hours (621,725 hours to
determine label content + 765,200 hours
to draft and order labels + 34,666,667
hours to attach labels).5 Staff believes
that any additional burden associated
with advertising disclosure
requirements or the filing of generic
fiber name petitions would be minimal
(less than 10,000 hours) and can be
subsumed within the burden estimates
set forth above.
Estimated annual cost burden:
$280,335,935 (solely relating to labor
costs). The chart below summarizes the
total estimated costs.
textile products (non-garments, such as sheets,
towels, blankets) were consumed. However,
approximately 0.6 billion of all of these garments
and household products are subject to the Wool
Act, not the Textile Act, because they contain some
amount of wool. Thus, the estimated net total
products subject to the Textile Act is 20.8 billion
(19.4¥1 + 3 = 21.4¥0.6 = 20.8 billion).
5 The Commission revised the Textile Rules in
2006 in response to amendments to the Textile Act.
See 70 FR 73369 (Dec. 12, 2005). These
amendments concerned the placement of labels on
packages of certain types of socks and, therefore, do
not place any additional disclosure burden on
covered entities. In 2014, the Commission revised
the Textile Rules to clarify and streamline certain
provisions and to allow more flexibility in
marketing textile products (e.g., allowing the use of
certain hang-tags that do not disclose the product’s
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6 6.50
19.00
Burden hours
621,725
765,200
34,666,667
1,180,725
Labor cost
$18,030,025
14,538,800
225,333,335
22,433,775
full fiber content). The Commission sought
comment on the increased burden, if any, imposed
by these changes but did not receive any comments
asserting that the amendments would increase
compliance costs. See 79 FR 18766 (Apr. 4, 2014).
6 For imported products, the labels generally are
attached in the country where the products are
manufactured. According to information compiled
by an industry trade association using data from the
U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade
Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau,
approximately 97.5% of apparel used in the United
States is imported. With the remaining 2.5%
attributable to U.S. production at an approximate
domestic hourly wage of $12 to attach labels, staff
has calculated a weighted average hourly wage of
$6.50 per hour attributable to U.S. and foreign labor
combined.
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Total ......................................................................................................................................
Staff believes that there are no current
start-up costs or other capital costs
associated with the Textile Rules.
Because the labeling of textile products
has been an integral part of the
manufacturing process for decades,
manufacturers have in place the capital
equipment necessary to comply with the
Rules’ labeling requirements. Industry
sources indicate that much of the
information required by the Textile Act
and Rules would be included on the
product label even absent their
requirements. Similarly, recordkeeping,
invoicing, and advertising disclosures
are tasks performed in the ordinary
course of business; therefore, covered
firms would incur no additional capital
or other non-labor costs as a result of the
Rules.
Request for Comments
Pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, 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 maintaining records and
providing disclosures to consumers. All
comments must be received on or before
April 26, 2021.
You can file a comment online or on
paper. For the FTC to consider your
comment, we must receive it on or
before April 26, 2021. Write ‘‘Textile
Rules; PRA Comment: FTC File No.
P072108’’ on your comment. Your
comment—including your name and
your state—will be placed on the public
record of this proceeding, including the
https://www.regulations.gov website.
Due to the public health emergency in
response to the COVID–19 outbreak and
the agency’s heightened security
screening, postal mail addressed to the
Commission will be subject to delay. We
encourage you to submit your comments
online through the https://
www.regulations.gov website.
If you prefer to file your comment on
paper, write ‘‘Textile Rules; PRA
Comment: FTC File No. P072108’’ on
your comment and on the envelope, and
mail your comment to the following
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address: Federal Trade Commission,
Office of the Secretary, 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC–
5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20580;
or deliver your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW,
5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J),
Washington, DC 20024. If possible,
submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight
service.
Because your comment will become
publicly available at https://
www.regulations.gov, you are solely
responsible for making sure that your
comment does not include any sensitive
or confidential information. In
particular, your comment should not
include any sensitive personal
information, such as your or anyone
else’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, your comment should not
include any ‘‘trade secret or any
commercial or financial information
which . . . . is privileged or
confidential’’ —as provided by 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)
—including in particular competitively
sensitive information such as costs,
sales statistics, inventories, formulas,
patterns, devices, manufacturing
processes, or customer names.
Comments containing material for
which confidential treatment is
requested must be filed in paper form,
must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’
and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c).
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). Your
comment will be kept confidential only
if the General Counsel grants your
request in accordance with the law and
the public interest. Once your comment
has been posted publicly at
www.regulations.gov, we cannot redact
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Burden hours
Labor cost
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280,335,935
or remove your comment unless you
submit a confidentiality request that
meets the requirements for such
treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and
the General Counsel grants that request.
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 April 26, 2021. For information
on the Commission’s privacy policy,
including routine uses permitted by the
Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/
site-information/privacy-policy.
Josephine Liu,
Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel.
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[30-Day–21–0888]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork
Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
has submitted the information
collection request titled Factors
Influencing the Transmission of
Influenza to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. CDC previously published a
‘‘Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations’’ notice on October
13, 2020 to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. CDC
received two comments related to the
previous notice. This notice serves to
allow an additional 30 days for public
and affected agency comments.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) Evaluate 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;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies
estimate of the burden of the proposed
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) is seeking public
comment on its proposal to extend for an additional three years the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) clearance for information
collection requirements in the Commission's rules and regulations under
the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile Rules). That
clearance expires on May 31, 2021.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper by
following the instructions in the Request for Comments part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``Textile Rules; PRA
Comment: FTC File No. P072108'' on your comment, and file your comment
online at https://www.regulations.gov by following the instructions on
the web-based form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail
your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office
of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610 (Annex J),
Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center,
400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC
20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jock K. Chung, Attorney, Division of
Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission,
Mail Code CC-9528, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580,
(202) 326-2984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Rules and Regulations under the Textile Fiber Products
Identification Act, 16 CFR part 303.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0101.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
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Likely Respondents: Manufacturers, importers, processors and
marketers of textile fiber products.
Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure; recordkeeping
requirement.
Estimated annual hours burden: 37,234,317 hours (1,180,725
recordkeeping hours + 36,053,592 disclosure hours).
Recordkeeping: 1,180,725 hours (approximately 18,165 textile firms
incur average burden of 65 hours per firm).
Disclosure: 36,053,592 hours (621,725 hours to determine label
content + 765,200 hours to draft and order labels + 34,666,667 hours to
attach labels).
Estimated annual cost burden: $280,335,935 (solely relating to
labor costs).
Abstract: The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile
Act) \1\ prohibits the misbranding and false advertising of textile
fiber products. The Textile Rules establish disclosure requirements
that assist consumers in making informed purchasing decisions, and
recordkeeping requirements that assist the Commission in enforcing the
Rules. The Rules also contain a petition procedure for requesting the
establishment of generic names for textile fibers.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 70 et seq.
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As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), the FTC is providing this opportunity for public comment
before requesting that OMB extend the existing clearance for the
information collection requirements contained in the Commission's
Textile Rules.
Textile Rules Burden Statement
Staff's burden estimates are based on data from the Department of
Commerce's Bureau of the Census and International Trade Administration,
the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and data or
other input from the main industry association, the American Apparel
and Footwear Association (AAFA), and from SICCode.com, which
specializes in the business classification of SIC (Standard Industrial
Classification) and NAICS (North American Industry Classification
System) codes for business identification, verification, and targeting.
The AAFA, a national trade association that represents U.S. apparel,
footwear and other sewn products companies and their suppliers, has
stated that ``[t]he use of labels on textiles and apparels is
beneficial to consumers, manufacturers, and business in general as it
allows for the necessary flow of information along the supply chain.''
\2\ The relevant information collection requirements in these Rules and
staff's corresponding burden estimates follow. The estimates address
the number of hours needed and the labor costs incurred to comply with
the requirements. Staff believes that a significant portion of hours
and labor costs currently attributable to burden below are time and
financial resources usually and customarily incurred by persons in the
course of their regular activity (e.g., industry participants already
have and/or would have fiber content labels regardless of the Rules)
and could be excluded from PRA-related burden.\3\
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\2\ Page one from comment by Kevin M. Burke, President and CEO,
American Apparel & Footwear Association, March 26, 2012, Advance
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Public Comment; Rules and
Regulations under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939; 77 FR 4498
(Jan. 30, 2012).
\3\ 5 CFR 1320.3(b)(2).
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Estimated annual hours burden: 37,234,317 hours (1,180,725
recordkeeping hours + 36,053,592 disclosure hours).
Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that approximately 18,165 textile
firms are subject to the Textile Rules' recordkeeping requirements.
Based on an average burden of 65 hours per firm, the total
recordkeeping burden is 1,180,725 hours.
Disclosure: Approximately 9,565 textile firms, producing or
importing about 20.8 billion textile fiber products annually, are
subject to the Textile Rules' disclosure requirements.\4\ Staff
estimates the burden of determining label content to be 65 hours per
year per firm, or a total of 621,725 hours. and the burden of drafting
and ordering labels to be 80 hours per firm per year, or a total of
765,200 hours. Staff believes that the process of attaching labels is
now fully automated and integrated into other production steps for
about 40 percent of all affected products. For the remaining 12.48
billion items (60 percent of 20.8 billion), the process is semi-
automated and requires an average of approximately ten seconds per
item, for a total of 34,666,667 hours per year. Thus, the total
estimated annual disclosure burden for all firms is 36,053,592 hours
(621,725 hours to determine label content + 765,200 hours to draft and
order labels + 34,666,667 hours to attach labels).\5\ Staff believes
that any additional burden associated with advertising disclosure
requirements or the filing of generic fiber name petitions would be
minimal (less than 10,000 hours) and can be subsumed within the burden
estimates set forth above.
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\4\ The estimated consumption of garments in the U.S. in 2012
was 19.4 billion. However, staff estimates that 1 billion garments
are exempt from the Textile Act (i.e., any kind of headwear and
garments made from something other than a textile fiber product,
such as leather) or are subject to a special exemption for hosiery
products sold in packages where the label information is contained
on the package. Based on available data, staff estimates that an
additional 3 billion household textile products (non-garments, such
as sheets, towels, blankets) were consumed. However, approximately
0.6 billion of all of these garments and household products are
subject to the Wool Act, not the Textile Act, because they contain
some amount of wool. Thus, the estimated net total products subject
to the Textile Act is 20.8 billion (19.4-1 + 3 = 21.4-0.6 = 20.8
billion).
\5\ The Commission revised the Textile Rules in 2006 in response
to amendments to the Textile Act. See 70 FR 73369 (Dec. 12, 2005).
These amendments concerned the placement of labels on packages of
certain types of socks and, therefore, do not place any additional
disclosure burden on covered entities. In 2014, the Commission
revised the Textile Rules to clarify and streamline certain
provisions and to allow more flexibility in marketing textile
products (e.g., allowing the use of certain hang-tags that do not
disclose the product's full fiber content). The Commission sought
comment on the increased burden, if any, imposed by these changes
but did not receive any comments asserting that the amendments would
increase compliance costs. See 79 FR 18766 (Apr. 4, 2014).
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Estimated annual cost burden: $280,335,935 (solely relating to
labor costs). The chart below summarizes the total estimated costs.
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\6\ For imported products, the labels generally are attached in
the country where the products are manufactured. According to
information compiled by an industry trade association using data
from the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade
Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 97.5% of
apparel used in the United States is imported. With the remaining
2.5% attributable to U.S. production at an approximate domestic
hourly wage of $12 to attach labels, staff has calculated a weighted
average hourly wage of $6.50 per hour attributable to U.S. and
foreign labor combined.
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Task Hourly rate Burden hours Labor cost
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Determine label content......................................... $29.00 621,725 $18,030,025
Draft and order labels.......................................... 19.00 765,200 14,538,800
Attach labels................................................... \6\ 6.50 34,666,667 225,333,335
Recordkeeping................................................... 19.00 1,180,725 22,433,775
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Total....................................................... .............. .............. 280,335,935
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Staff believes that there are no current start-up costs or other
capital costs associated with the Textile Rules. Because the labeling
of textile products has been an integral part of the manufacturing
process for decades, manufacturers have in place the capital equipment
necessary to comply with the Rules' labeling requirements. Industry
sources indicate that much of the information required by the Textile
Act and Rules would be included on the product label even absent their
requirements. Similarly, recordkeeping, invoicing, and advertising
disclosures are tasks performed in the ordinary course of business;
therefore, covered firms would incur no additional capital or other
non-labor costs as a result of the Rules.
Request for Comments
Pursuant to Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 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 maintaining records and providing disclosures to
consumers. All comments must be received on or before April 26, 2021.
You can file a comment online or on paper. For the FTC to consider
your comment, we must receive it on or before April 26, 2021. Write
``Textile Rules; PRA Comment: FTC File No. P072108'' on your comment.
Your comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on the
public record of this proceeding, including the https://www.regulations.gov website.
Due to the public health emergency in response to the COVID-19
outbreak and the agency's heightened security screening, postal mail
addressed to the Commission will be subject to delay. We encourage you
to submit your comments online through the https://www.regulations.gov
website.
If you prefer to file your comment on paper, write ``Textile Rules;
PRA Comment: FTC File No. P072108'' on your comment and on the
envelope, and mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite
CC-5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20580; or deliver your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex
J), Washington, DC 20024. If possible, submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight service.
Because your comment will become publicly available at https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for making sure that
your comment does not include any sensitive or confidential
information. In particular, your comment should not include any
sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else'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, your comment
should not include any ``trade secret or any commercial or financial
information which . . . . is privileged or confidential'' --as provided
by 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) --including in particular competitively
sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories,
formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer
names.
Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is
requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled
``Confidential,'' and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). 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). Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in
accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has
been posted publicly at www.regulations.gov, we cannot redact or remove
your comment unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the
requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General
Counsel grants that request.
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 April 26,
2021. For information on the Commission's privacy policy, including
routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.
Josephine Liu,
Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2021-03604 Filed 2-22-21; 8:45 am]
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