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1 Rulemaking Record Is Inadequate for Issuing Funeral Regulation, Say Two FTC Bureau Directors [1] (1982)

handle is hein.usfed/ftcnews0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Federal Trade Commission Washington, D.C. 20580 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 26, 1982 RULEMAKING RECORD IS INADEQUATE FOR ISSUING FUNERAL REGULATION, SAY TWO FTC BUREAU DIRECTORS The Federal Trade Commission's top consumer protection official has urged the Commission not to issue the industrywide funeral rule that received FTC approval last year. In a memo released today, Timothy J. Muris, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, recommended instead that the Commission reopen the rulemaking proceeding so it can take into consideration findings of important new survey data which appear inconsistent with a major premise of the rule. In addition, Muris said reopening the record would allow new, statistically valid evidence to be collected. Robert Tollison, director of the FTC's Bureau of Economics, also recommended against issuing the rule, but said the record should be closed, ending the proceeding. The Muris and Tollison memos are among eight documents placed on the public record today, for consideration when the Commission examines the funeral rule in open session at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 28, in Room 432 of the FTC Building, Washington, D.C. The proposed rule would require funeral directors to provide itemized price lists to their customers and disclose prices, when asked, over the telephone. The rule's other provisions include bans against misrepresenting local law, against placing conditions on the purchase of funeral items and against claiming that embalming preserves the body indefinitely. Muris' primary recommendation was to reopen the rulemaking record, but if the Commission decides against that, he suggested six ways to significantly strengthen the rule before it is promulgated: -- Allow funeral directors to furnish prices for packages, instead of by item, providing there is a list of items customers may decline for credit. -- Make the required disclosures more noticeable, for example, by specifying the typeface and print size of required price lists. (More) I P - X

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