[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 40 (Thursday, February 28, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 10697-10698]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3889]


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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

13 CFR Parts 121, 125, 127 and 134

RIN 3245-AF40


Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Assistance Procedures

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

ACTION: Proposed rule, notice of reopening of comment period and 
correction.

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SUMMARY: SBA is reopening the comment period for an additional 30 days 
and making two technical corrections.

DATES: Comments on the proposed rule on Women-Owned Small Business 
Federal Contract Assistance Procedures (72 FR 73285), must be received 
on or before March 31, 2008.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by 3245-AF40, by any of 
the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Robert C. Taylor, Office of 
Contract Assistance, Office of Government Contracting, U.S. Small 
Business Administration, 409 3rd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416.
    All comments will be posted 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 
comments to Robert C. Taylor and highlight the information that you 
consider to be CBI and explain why you believe this information should 
be held confidential. SBA will make a final determination as to whether 
the comments will be published or not.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert C. Taylor, Office of Contract 
Assistance, Office of Government Contracting, (202) 205-7319, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 27, 2007, SBA published in the 
Federal Register a proposed rule on Women-Owned Small Business Federal 
Contract Assistance Procedures (72 FR 73285). This proposed rule would 
add a new part to SBA's regulations that

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would implement procedures to increase procurement opportunities for 
Women-Owned Small Business Concerns, as authorized under the Small 
Business Act. It would also make the relevant conforming amendments to 
SBA's current procurement regulations. The original comment period was 
from December 27, 2007, through February 25, 2008. SBA is reopening the 
comment period for a limited time until March 31, 2008 for the 
following reasons. First, this will accommodate the great level of 
interest that the proposed rule has generated and the requests to 
extend the comment period. Furthermore, SBA is making two necessary 
technical corrections to the proposed rule. The first correction is in 
the ADDRESSES section of the proposed rule and amends the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal Web address and all references to that Web address 
to read http://www.regulations.gov. Finally, SBA is amending the words 
of issuance to further emphasize that this is a proposed rule.
    In SBA's docket Id fr27de07-17 appearing on page 73286 in the 
Federal Register on December 27, 2007, the ADDRESSES section is 
corrected to read as follows:
    ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by 3245-AF40, by any 
of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Robert C. Taylor, Office of 
Contract Assistance, Office of Government Contracting, U.S. Small 
Business Administration, 409 3rd Street, SW., Washington, DC 20416.
    All comments will be posted 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 
comments to Robert C. Taylor and highlight the information that you 
consider to be CBI and explain why you believe this information should 
be held confidential. SBA will make a final determination as to whether 
the comments will be published or not.
    Furthermore on page 73295 in the Federal Register (72 FR 73285), 
the words of issuance are corrected to read as follows: Accordingly, 
for the reasons stated in the preamble, SBA proposes to amend 13 CFR 
parts 121, 125, 127 and 134 as follows:

(Authority: 15 U.S.C. 634)

    Dated: February 25, 2008.
Fay E. Ott,
Associate Administrator for Government Contracting and Business 
Development.
 [FR Doc. E8-3889 Filed 2-27-08; 8:45 am]
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