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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 24 / Monday, February 8, 2021 / Notices
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requirements in the Commissions rules and regulations under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 Wool Rules. That clearance expires on May 31, 2021.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 9, 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 Wool 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 CC5610 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 CC9528, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580, 202
3262984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Rules and Regulations under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, 16
CFR part 300.
OMB Control Number: 30840100.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Likely Respondents: Manufacturers, importers, processors and marketers of wool products.
Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure; recordkeeping requirement.
Estimated annual hours burden:
1,880,000 hours 160,000 recordkeeping hours + 1,720,000 disclosure hours.
Recordkeeping: 160,000 hours 4,000
wool firms incur an average 40 hours per firm.
Disclosure: 1,720,000 hours 240,000
hours for determining label content +
480,000 hours to draft and order labels + 1,000,000 hours to attach labels.

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Estimated annual cost burden:
$25,620,000 solely relating to labor costs.
Abstract: The Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 Wool Act prohibits the misbranding of wool products. The Wool Rules establish disclosure requirements that assist consumers in making informed purchasing decisions and recordkeeping requirements that assist the Commission in enforcing the Rules.
As required by section 3506c2A
of the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3506c2A, 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 Commissions Wool Rules.
Burden Statement Staffs burden estimates for the Wool Rules are based on data from the Department of Commerces Bureau of the Census, the International Trade Commission, the Department of Labors 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 which represents U.S.
apparel, footwear and other sewn products companies and their suppliers, has stated that the 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. 1 The relevant information collection requirements in these rules and staffs corresponding burden estimates follow. The estimates address the number of hours needed and the 1 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.
2 5 CFR 1320.3b2.

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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 care labels regardless of the Rules and could be excluded from PRA-related burden.2
Estimated annual hours burden:
1,880,000 hours 160,000 recordkeeping hours + 1,720,000 disclosure hours.
Recordkeeping: Staff estimates that approximately 4,000 wool firms are subject to the Wool Rules recordkeeping requirements. Based on an average annual burden of 40 hours per firm, the total recordkeeping burden is 160,000 hours.
Disclosure: Approximately 8,000 wool firms, producing or importing about 600,000,000 wool products annually, are subject to the Wool Rules disclosure requirements. Staff estimates the burden of determining label content to be 30
hours per year per firm, or a total of 240,000 hours, and the burden of drafting and ordering labels to be 60
hours per firm per year, or a total of 480,000 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 360,000,000 items 60 percent of 600,000,000, the process is semiautomated and requires an average of approximately ten seconds per item, for a total of 1,000,000 hours per year.
Thus, the total estimated annual burden for all firms is 1,720,000 hours 240,000
hours for determining label content +
480,000 hours to draft and order labels + 1,000,000 hours to attach labels. Staff believes that any additional burden associated with advertising disclosure requirements would be minimal less than 10,000 hours and can be subsumed within the burden estimates set forth above.
Estimated annual cost burden:
$25,620,000, rounded to the nearest thousand solely relating to labor costs.
The chart below summarizes the total estimated costs.

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