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Small Business Size Regulations; Size Standards for Compliance With Programs of Other Agencies
The Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to amend its size regulations. The proposed amendment requires an agency to consult in writing with SBA before proposing small business size standards for use in its programs, if those size standards are other than those established by SBA. It removes the requirement that the agency have the SBA...
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Rules of Practice in Proceedings
The Department is finalizing, with certain exceptions, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) (62 FR 5094, Feb. 3, 1997) to revise 14 CFR part 302 in order to eliminate unnecessary verbiage and obsolete provisions and to make technical changes to make the rules current. The final rule also includes certain changes implementing the electronic...
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Rulemaking for EDGAR System
We are in the process of modernizing our Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. On June 28, 1999, we began accepting filings submitted to EDGAR in HyperText Markup Language as well as documents submitted in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange format. As of that date, filers have had the option to...
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Changes to Implement Patent Term Adjustment Under Twenty-Year Patent Term
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of section 4402 of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide patent term adjustment to compensate patentees for...
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Changes To Implement Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is proposing changes to the rules of practice in patent cases to implement certain provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' These provisions of the ``American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' provide, with certain exceptions, for the publication of pending patent...
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Rules To Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) is proposing to amend its rules of practice in patent cases to provide revised procedures for the reexamination of patents and thereby implement certain provisions of ``the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.'' ``The American Inventors Protection Act of 1999'' included an amendment to the...
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Rulemaking for EDGAR System
We are modernizing our Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. We are implementing the next stage of modernization (EDGAR Release 7.0) for filers to begin using on May 30 of this year. In this release, we are adopting amendments to our rules to reflect changes to filing requirements that result from our implementation...
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Changes to Permit Payment of Patent and Trademark Fees by Credit Card
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is amending the rules of practice to provide for the payment of any patent process or trademark process fee by credit card. The Office previously limited payment by credit card to the fees required for information products or for an electronic submission of or in a trademark application. The...
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Small Business Size Standards; Help Supply Services
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is establishing a size standard of $10 million in average annual receipts for Help Supply Services--Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 7363. The current size standard for this industry is $5.0 million. This revision is made to better define the size of business in this industry that SBA believes...
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Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loans
With this rule SBA proposes to amend its Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loan Program (program) regulations. This rule proposes amendments that will clarify program requirements and procedures. The Pre-Disaster Mitigation Loan Program is a pilot program that was authorized by Congress in 1999. It allows SBA to make low interest, fixed rate loans to...
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Small Business Size Standards; General Building Contractors, Heavy Construction, Except Building, Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities, Special Trade Contractors, Garbage and Refuse Collection, Without Disposal, and Refuse Systems
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is establishing a size standard of $27.5 million in average annual receipts for all industries in General Building Contractors, Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Major Group 15, and for all industries except Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities in Heavy Construction Other Than Building...
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Small Business Investment Companies
This proposed rule would implement a provision of Public Law 106-9, enacted April 5, 1999, under which certain types of consideration paid to a small business investment company (SBIC) by a small business are excluded from ``cost of money'' limitations.
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Treatment of Unlocatable Application and Patent Files
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is proposing to amend the rules of practice to provide for the replacement of application and patent files that cannot be located after a reasonable search. This change is designed to expedite the process of application and patent file reconstruction to minimize the processing or examination delays...
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Business Loan Program
In this Final Rule a Certified Development Company (CDC) will be permitted to apply to have an area of operations that goes beyond its state of incorporation, and beyond a local economic area in an adjacent state, into a contiguous state to its state of incorporation. This amendment includes specific additional membership, loan committee, and...
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Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loans
With this document, SBA proposes to amend its Disaster Loan Program regulations to implement a new program authorized by the Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999. Under this new program, SBA would make a low interest, fixed rate loan available to a small business employing a military reservist if that reservist is...
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Government Contracting Programs
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is finalizing its regulations to address contract bundling due to changes set forth in the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997. This rule implements the statutory amendments that recognize that the consolidation of contract requirements may be necessary and justified, in some cases. It also...
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Small Business Size Standards; Arrangement of Transportation of Freight and Cargo
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is establishing a size standard of $5.0 million in average annual receipts for the Arrangement of Transportation of Freight and Cargo industry (Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code 4731). In addition, for brokers and agents in this industry such as Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers, SBA is...
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Revision of Patent Fees for Fiscal Year 2001
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is amending the rules of practice in patent cases to adjust certain patent fee amounts to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The USPTO is also amending the description of two fees to reflect current business practice.
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Business Loan Programs
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) published a final rule governing 7(a) loan securitizations on February 10, 1999. In that rule, SBA inadvertently omitted a sentence in the section covering capital requirements for securitizing institutions (``securitizers''). This document adds that sentence.
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Small Business Investment Companies
This proposed rule would modify the management-ownership diversity requirement in SBA's Small Business Investment Company (``SBIC'') Program to prohibit the ownership of more than 70% of a leveraged SBIC by any single investor or group of affiliated investors. This action will help to ensure that each new leveraged SBIC has managers that...