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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or the Agency) is proposing new size standards for 338 industry groups and industries.
MechanismAn SBA size standard is the test that decides which companies count as small, and that test gates federal contracting set-asides and the SBA-licensed investment programmes a young company can be financed through.
So whatNew size standards for 338 industry groups and industries are proposed, and the size standard is what decides whether a company is small enough for the programmes that turn on that definition.
Open for comment
Comments close 21 September 2026 — 32 days after publication. The comment route for this docket is on the document's Federal Register page.
Comment on this document at federalregister.gov ↗Selection rule: Read by hand from the Federal Register issue of 2026-08-20, the most recent day in the archive.
Small Business Administration 91 FR 53741 FR Doc. 2026-17042 published 2026-08-20 federalregister.gov ↗official PDF ↗
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