[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expanded or repealed.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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