{"abstract":"The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) proposes to amend its regulations governing the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program to clarify certain policies. In 2019, SBA published a comprehensive revision to the HUBZone Program regulations, which implemented changes intended to make the HUBZone Program more efficient and effective. This proposed rule is intended to clarify and improve policies surrounding some of those changes. In particular, the rule proposes to require any certified HUBZone small business to be eligible as of the date of offer for any HUBZone contract. SBA also proposes to make several changes to SBA's size and 8(a) Business Development (BD) regulations, as well as some technical changes to the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Veteran Small Business Certification (VetCert) programs. Of note, the proposed rule would delete the program specific recertification requirements contained separately in SBA's size, 8(a) BD, HUBZone, WOSB, and VetCert and move them to a new section that would cover all size and status recertification requirements. 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