Notice2025-01302
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension
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Published
January 21, 2025
Issuing agencies
Federal Trade Commission
Abstract
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requests that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) extend for three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearance for information collection requirements contained in the rules and regulations under the Pay-Per- Call Rule (Rule). That clearance expires on January 31, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7139-7140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01302]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requests that the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) extend for three years the current
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearance for information collection
requirements contained in the rules and regulations under the Pay-Per-
Call Rule (Rule). That clearance expires on January 31, 2025.
DATES: Comments must be received by February 20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. The
<a href="http://reginfo.gov">reginfo.gov</a> web link is a United States Government website produced by
OMB and the General Services Administration (GSA). Under PRA
requirements, OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
reviews Federal information collections.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: P. Connell McNulty, Attorney, Division
of Marketing Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade
Commission, Mail Code CC-6316, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20580, (202) 326-2061.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Trade Regulation Rule Pursuant to the
Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act of 1992 (Pay-Per-Call
Rule), 16 CFR part 308.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0102.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Abstract: The existing reporting and disclosure requirements of the
Pay-Per-Call Rule are mandated by the Telephone Disclosure and Dispute
Resolution Act of 1992 (TDDRA) to help prevent unfair and deceptive
acts and practices in the advertising and operation of pay-per-call
services and in the collection of charges for telephone-billed
purchases. The information obtained by the Commission pursuant to the
reporting requirement is used for law enforcement purposes. The
disclosure requirements ensure that consumers are told about the costs
of using a pay-per-call service, that they will not be liable for
unauthorized non-toll charges on their telephone bills, and how to deal
with disputes about telephone-billed purchases.
Likely Respondents: telecommunications common carriers (subject to
the reporting requirement only, unless acting as a billing entity),
information providers (vendors) offering one or more pay-per-call
services or programs, and billing entities.
Estimated Annual Hours Burden: 949,536 hours (24 + 949,512).
Reporting: 24 hours for reporting by common carriers.
Disclosure: 949,512 [(19,440 hours for advertising by vendors +
19,992 hours for preamble disclosure which applies to every pay-per-
call service + 6,480 burden hours for telephone-billed charges in
billing statements (applies to vendors; applies to common carriers if
acting as billing entity) + 13,000 burden hours for dispute resolution
procedures in billing statements (applies to billing entities) +
890,600 hours for disclosures related to consumers reporting a billing
error (applies to billing entities)].
Estimated annual cost burden: $49,402,048 (solely relating to labor
costs).\1\
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\1\ Non-labor (e.g., capital/other start-up) costs are generally
subsumed in activities otherwise undertaken in the ordinary course
of business (e.g., business records from which only existing
information must be reported to the Commission, pay-per-call
advertisements or audiotext to which cost or other disclosures are
added, etc.). To the extent that entities incur operating or
maintenance expenses, or purchase outside services to satisfy the
Rule's requirements, staff believe those expenses are also included
in (or, if contracted out, would be comparable to) the annual burden
hour and cost estimates provided below (where such costs are labor-
related), or are otherwise included in the ordinary cost of doing
business (regarding non-labor costs).
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Request for Comment
On November 4, 2024, the FTC sought public comment on the
information collection requirements associated with the Rule. 89 FR
87575.\2\ The Commission received one germane comment, which supported
the continued collection of information under the Rule. The Commission
received a second comment that mischaracterized the Commission's
November 4, 2024 Notice and request for comment as a notice of proposed
rulemaking. The commenter asserted that the Commission's Notice raised
constitutional and ``statutory overreach'' concerns. The Commission's
Notice, as discussed, sought public comment on
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existing information collection requirements associated with the Rule,
which the Commission has undertaken for years and seeks to continue. It
did not concern a proposed rulemaking. Pursuant to the OMB regulations,
5 CFR part 1320, that implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the
FTC is providing this second opportunity for public comment while
seeking OMB approval to renew the pre-existing clearance for the Rules.
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\2\ On November 27, 2024, the FTC filed a Notice to correct an
incorrect date in its Notice of November 4, 2024; namely that the
current PRA clearance expires on January 31, 2025, and not January
30, 2024. See 89 FR 93602.
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Your comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on
the public record of this proceeding. Because your comment will be made
public, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment
does not include any sensitive personal information, such as anyone's
Social Security number; date of birth; driver's license number or other
state identification number, or foreign country equivalent; passport
number; financial account number; or credit or debit card number. You
are also solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not
include any sensitive health information, such as medical records or
other individually identifiable health information. In addition, 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.
Josephine Liu,
Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2025-01302 Filed 1-17-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6750-01-P
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