[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 121 (Thursday, June 23, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 36887-36888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15667]
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
13 CFR Chapter I
[Docket No.: SBA-2011-0012]
Reducing Regulatory Burden; Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563
AGENCY: Small Business Administration.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: In response to the President's Executive Order 13563,
Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review, the Small Business
Administration (SBA) has developed a preliminary retrospective review
plan for periodically analyzing its existing significant regulations to
determine whether those regulations should be modified, streamlined,
expanded or repealed. SBA is inviting members of the public to submit
comments on this review plan, including the list of candidate rules for
review. The goal of the retrospective review is to make SBA's
regulatory program more effective and less burdensome in achieving the
agency's regulatory objectives, while continuing to promote economic
growth, innovation, and job creation within the small business
community
DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 25, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. SBA-2011-
0012 using any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Identify comments by ``Docket No. SBA-2011-0012, Regulatory Burden
RFI,'' and follow the instructions for submitting comments.
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Mail: U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of the
General Counsel, 409 Third Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416.
SBA will post comments on http://www.regulations.gov. If you wish
to submit confidential business information (CBI) as defined in the
User Notice at http://www.regulations.gov, please submit the
information to Martin S. Conrey, Assistant General Counsel for
Legislation and Appropriations, Office of General Counsel, 409 Third
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416. Highlight the information that you
consider to be CBI, and explain why you believe this information should
be held confidential. SBA will review the information and make the
final determination of whether it will publish the information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martin S. Conrey, Assistant General
Counsel for Legislation and Appropriations, Office of the General
Counsel, 409 Third Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416; telephone 202-
619-0638.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 18, 2011, President Obama issued
Executive Order 13563, ``Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.''
The Executive Order requires Federal agencies to seek more affordable,
less intrusive ways to achieve policy goals and give careful
consideration to the benefits and costs of their regulations. The
Executive Order also requires agencies to develop a preliminary plan
for reviewing their regulations to determine, among other things, if
they are outdated, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome
on the public. On March 14, 2011, as part of SBA's implementation of
the Executive Order, the agency published a notice in the Federal
Register soliciting comments to assist the agency in the development of
the preliminary plan required by the Executive Order, and to identify
whether any of SBA's existing regulations should be modified,
streamlined, expanded or repealed (76 FR 13532). SBA received 11
comments in Regulations.gov from a mix of small business trade
organizations, a small business owner, an SBA loan program
participating lender, an advocacy and research organization,
associations of research universities, and members of the general
public. Those comments are summarized in the SBA's Preliminary Plan for
Retrospective Review of Existing Regulations (May 17, 2011), which is
posted on the agency's Open Government Web site at http://www.sba.gov/content/sba-preliminary-plan-retrospective-analysis-existing-rules). In
addition to the Federal Register notice, SBA solicited ideas during the
Small Business Jobs Act Tour (see http://www.sba.gov/jobsacttour) and
the Startup America: Reducing Barriers roundtable events (see http://www.sba.gov/content/startup-america-reducing-barriers-roundtables.)
Comments provided at these events will be considered in developing the
final plan.
To ensure that the plan meets the objectives of the Executive Order
and to benefit from the expertise of interested members of the public,
the SBA is now requesting public comments on this preliminary plan
before finalizing it. To comment on the preliminary plan, visit http://www.regulations.gov and insert SBA-2011-0012 in the ``Enter Keyword or
ID'' box. Once you are taken to the docket for the plan, click on the
``Submit a Comment'' bubble to open the comment form. When providing
input, the SBA requests that commenters provide as much detail as
possible and provide empirical evidence and data to support responses.
The SBA will consider the public comments in development of the
agency's final plan as well as the retrospective analysis of the rules.
SBA notes that this Request for comments is issued solely for
information and program-planning purposes. SBA will give careful
consideration to the responses, and may use them as appropriate during
the retrospective review, but we do not anticipate providing a point-
by-point response to each comment submitted. While responses to this
request for comments do not bind the Agency to any further actions
related to the response, all submissions will be made publically
available on http://www.regulations.gov.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 5(b)(6), E.O. 13653, 76 FR 3821.
Dated: June 16, 2011.
Michael A. Chodos,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-15667 Filed 6-22-11; 8:45 am]
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