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Clarification to HUBZone Program Updates and Clarifications and Potential Reforms
The Small Business Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on September 19, 2024. It took effect on August 23, 2024. Comments closed on October 7, 2024.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) publishes this document to clarify the scope of a proposed rule published on August 23, 2024. The proposed rule is intended to clarify and improve policies implemented as part of a comprehensive revision to the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program regulations in 2019; to propose several changes to SBA's size and 8(a) Business Development (BD) regulations, and technical changes to the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Veteran Small Business Certification (VetCert) programs; and to move program-specific recertification requirements to a new section that would cover all size and status recertification requirements. The proposed rule does not address the exclusion from affiliation available to mentor- prot[eacute]g[eacute] joint ventures or the applicability of the HUBZone price evaluation preference to HUBZone joint ventures formed under the Mentor-Prot[eacute]g[eacute] Program. Those issues are outside the scope of the proposed rule.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-21362
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Clarification to proposed rule
- Agency
- Small Business Administration
- Published
- September 19, 2024
- Takes effect
- August 23, 2024
- Comments due
- October 7, 2024
- Dates
- Comments on the proposed rule published at 89 FR 68274 (Aug. 23, 2024) must be received on or before October 7, 2024.
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 13 CFR 126
- Pages
- 2
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