[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 15, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 49726-49727]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20475]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

13 CFR Part 121


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; Correction

AGENCY: Small Business Administration.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: This is a technical correction to the final rule that the 
Small Business Administration (SBA) published in the Federal Register 
(65 FR 37689) on June 16, 2000. In that rule, the Small Business 
Administration established higher size standards in annual receipts for 
all of the construction industries including dredging, and for garbage 
and refuse collection, and refuse systems. SBA is providing below a 
replacement table for the one that was contained in that final rule. 
The table that was published on June 16, 2000 contained omissions that 
are significant and that SBA believes would be misleading if not 
corrected.

DATES: This rule is effective on July 17, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert N. Ray, Office of Size 
Standards, (202) 205-6618.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a technical correction to the final 
rule that the Small Business Administration (SBA) published in the 
Federal Register (65 FR 37689) on June 16, 2000. In that rule, the SBA 
established 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 Construction, SIC Major Group 16; $17.0 million for 
Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities, part of SIC 1629, Heavy 
Construction, Not Elsewhere Classified (NEC); $11.5 million for all 
industries in Special Trade Contractors, SIC Major Group 17; and $10.0 
million for Garbage and Refuse Collection, Without Disposal, part of 
SIC 4212, Local Trucking Without Storage, and Refuse Systems, SIC 4953. 
These size standards were published in the table without dollar signs 
for five of the receipt-based size standards. The omission of dollar 
signs for these industries will lead to businesses with receipt-based 
size standards believing that they have employee-based size standards. 
As a result, eligible businesses would consider themselves ineligible 
in many cases for SBA program assistance. This correction publishes a 
corrected table for the one that was contained in that final rule.

    In rule FR Doc. 00-15258 published on June 16, 2000, (65 FR 37689) 
make the following correction:


Sec. 121.201  [Corrected]

    1. On page 37694, in Sec. 121.201, the table ``SIZE STANDARDS BY 
SIC INDUSTRY'' is corrected to read as follows:


Sec. 121.201  What size standards has SBA identified by Standard 
Industrial Classification codes?

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                     Size Standards By SIC Industry
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                                                          Size standards
                                                           in number of
                SIC code and description                   employees or
                                                            millions of
                                                              dollars
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Division C--Construction:
    Major Group 15--Building Construction--General                 $27.5
     Contractors and Operative Builders.................
    Major Group 16--Heavy Construction Other Than                  $27.5
     Building Construction--Contractors.................
Except:
    1629 (Part) Dredging and Surface Cleanup Activities.          $17.01
    Major Group 17--Construction--Special Trade                    $11.5
     Contractors........................................
 
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Division E--Transportation, Communications, Electric,
 Gas, and Sanitary Services:
 

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    4212 (Part) Garbage and Refuse Collection, Without             $10.0
     Disposal...........................................
 
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    4953  Refuse Systems................................          $10.0
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Footnotes:
\1\ SIC code 1629--Dredging: To be considered small for purposes of
  Government procurement, a firm must perform at least 40 percent of the
  volume dredged with its own equipment or equipment owned by another
  small dredging concern.
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    Dated: August 7, 2000.
Gary M. Jackson,
Assistant Administrator for Size Standards.
[FR Doc. 00-20475 Filed 8-14-00; 8:45 am]
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