The HAZMAT Registration Program of the U.S.  Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a reduced fee for each person that registers as a small business.  The current HAZMAT registration form requires the applicant's 6-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.  SBA has established a size standard for each for-profit NAICS industry.  The applicant must indicate whether it is a small business, meeting the SBA size standard for the NAICS code.  

If you know your NAICS code, go to SBA's Table of Size Standards to look up the size standard for that NAICS code.

If you do not know your NAICS code, but you do know your Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code,

go to the Bureau of the Census web site, and enter "sic 1234" [or whatever your SIC code was, but no quotes], and it will give you the NAICS code or codes that now represent that SIC code, with full industry definitions and illustrative examples.

 

Otherwise, you may search for your NAICS code on that same site and return to SBA's Table of Size Standards to look up your size standard. 

For HAZMAT registration information not related to NAICS or SIC codes and their small business size standards, please visit the HAZMAT registration page. 

How to Count

  " Annual Receipts" & "Number of Employees" 

Nearly all of SBA's small business size standards are measured in terms of annual receipts or number of employees. 

For size standards based on receipts, use the company's total income plus "cost of goods sold," as these terms are defined or reported on Internal Revenue Service forms.  To qualify as a small business, the average of the company's three most recently completed fiscal years cannot exceed the size standard.  Please see 13 CFR §121.104 of SBA's Size Regulations and also SBA's "Guide to Definitions of Small Business Size Standards."

 

For size standards based on number of employees, count all employees equally, whether they are full time, part time or temporary.  This is a "head count."  To qualify as a small business, the average number of the company's employees per pay period for the last twelve months cannot exceed the size standard.  Please see 13 CFR §121.106 of SBA's Size Regulations and also SBA's "Guide to Definitions of Small Business Size Standards."

For more information about Size Standards, NAICS and SIC codes please visit our Size Standards web site.  You may also email us.