Daily Real Estate News  |   February 16, 2004  |   FTC Seeks Once-a-Month No-Call List Scrubbing The Federal Trade Commission would require telemarketers to update their interstate call lists to reflect listings in the federal Do-Not-Call Registry once a month rather than once every three months in a notice the agency has published. The FTC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published February 13, 2004, would require telemarketers to scrub their telephone lists against the DNC Registry list "once a month," replacing the FTC's current requirement to scrub their lists every three months. The proposed rulemaking only applies to interstate calls and therefore does not interfere with the Federal Communication Committee's requirement that intrastate telemarketers scrub their lists every three months. Therefore, callers who market strictly within a state's borders do not yet need to worry about the change. The National Association of REALTORS will be submitting comments in response to the proposal to urge the FTC to reconsider this change due to the additional cost and labor burden associated with it. Additional comment letters from state and local associations and REALTOR members are encouraged. The deadline for submitting comments is February 26, 2004. —NAR