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OMB Control No: 3084-0097	ICR Reference No: 200905-3084-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 200806-3084-001
Agency/Subagency: FTC	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Telemarketing Sales Rule
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 07/21/2009
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 05/28/2009
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	07/31/2012	36 Months From Approved	07/31/2009
Responses	1,308,667,007	0	2,500,033,146
Time Burden (Hours)	1,634,347	0	2,582,865
Cost Burden (Dollars)	6,502,348	0	12,575,000

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	1,308,667,007	2,500,033,146	-1,191,366,139
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	1,634,347	2,582,865	-948,518
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	6,502,348	12,575,000	-6,072,652

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The current cumulative burden estimate of 1,634,347 hours is reduced from the FTCs prior cleared burden estimate in 2006 of 2,500,000 (and, incremental to that in 2008, the additional 82,865 hours for the prerecorded call amendments). Estimated non-labor cost is reduced from $12,575,000 to $6,502,350. These reductions are largely attributable to staffs reduced estimates for the number of telemarketing entities subject to the TSR (from 15,000 to 14,335), based on updated National Registry data, a correction to how the estimated number of inbound telemarketers was extrapolated from that overall estimate, the eliminated prior double-counting of telefunders in staffs burden estimates, and a reduced estimate of the number of direct initial sales from inbound calls subject to FTC jurisdiction (2.8 billion versus 3.3 billion previously).