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1 Summary of Rebuttal Comments in Response to January 22, 1981: Federal Register Notice 1 (1981)

handle is hein.usfed/srcrfrn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT oays: June 26, 18 meporancum swo: Robert Schick, Gloria Cordes-Macklin, Pamela Coveney, and Curtis Yee, Attorneys, Division of Professional Services sumawTcommendations on funeral rule TO:Commission I. Introduction This memorandum presents our recommendations for the final language of the funeral rule, based upon our analysis of the initial comments and rebuttal comments submitted in this matter pursuant to the Commission's January 22, 1981 Federal Register notice. Attached as Appendix A to this memorandum is a side-by- side comparison between our recommended rule and the rule as it appeared in the Federal Register on January 22, 1981. In our memorandum, we refer to the revised rule published by the Commission as the January 22 rule. Also attached as Appendices B through G are model forms illustrating the appearance of price lists which would comply with the rule's requirements. As the Commission is aware, National Selected Morticians and the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association submitted in their initial comments a proposed rule (the NSM/NFDMA proposal) for Commission adoption instead of the January 22 rule. Before they did so, the Bureau and rulemaking staff reviewed the NSM/NFDMA proposal and stated our view that, taken as a whole, it addresses the primary abuses identified in the rulemaking record and meets the objectives of the funeral rule proceedings. We added, however, that we would take into account comments submitted on all issues, including the NSM/NFDMA roposal, before we made our final recommendation to the Commission. Consistent with that statement, we have examined all initial comments submitted, including the revised industry guides submitted by the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA). While the revised guides provide consumers with a higher degree of protection than the original guides proposed in October, 1980, they still do not provide a level of protection equivalent to that provided either by the January 22 rule or the NSM/NFDMA proposal. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan

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