[Federal Register: February 28, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 40)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 10697-10698]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr28fe08-25]
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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,
WOSBProposedRegulation@sba.gov.
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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