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1 12 U.S.C. 5452. 

2See Department of the Treasury Acquisition 

Regulations; Contract Clause on Minority and 

Women Inclusion in Contractor Workforce, 79 FR 

15551, at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014- 

03-20/pdf/2014-05846.pdf. 

other service fees, revenue sharing, or 

other arrangements. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Investment Management, under delegated 

authority. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02992 Filed 2–12–15; 8:45 am] 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–74239; File No. S7–02–15] 

Contract Standard for Contractor 

Workforce Inclusion and Request for 

Public Comment 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed contract 

standard; notice of proposed 

information collection; and request for 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: To implement section 342 of 

the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the 

‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’ or ‘‘the Act’’), the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(the ‘‘Commission’’) is proposing to 

include in its service contracts a 

standard concerning workforce 

inclusion of minorities and women. 

DATES: Comments should be received on 

or before: April 14, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/other.shtml); 

• Send an email to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File 

No. S7–02–15 on the subject line; or 

• Use the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

(http://www.regulations.gov). Follow 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments to Brent J. 

Fields, Secretary, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File No. 

S7–02–15. This file number should be 

included on the subject line if email is 

used. To help us process and review 

your comments more efficiently, please 

use only one method. The Commission 

will post all comments on the 

Commission’s Internet Web site (http:// 

www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml). 

Comments will also be available for 

Web site viewing and printing in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549 

on official business days between the 

hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change; we do not edit personal 

identifying information from 

submissions. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pamela A. Gibbs, Director, Office of 

Minority and Women Inclusion, or 

Audrey B. Little, Senior Counsel, Office 

of Minority and Women Inclusion at 

(202) 551–6046, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20549. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

342(a)(1)(A) of the Dodd-Frank Act 

provides for certain agencies, including 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, to establish an Office of 

Minority and Women Inclusion 

(‘‘OMWI’’).1 Section 342(c)(1) provides 

that the OMWI Director shall develop 

and implement standards and 

procedures to ensure the fair inclusion 

and utilization of minorities, women, 

and minority-owned and women-owned 

businesses in all business and activities 

of the agency, including in 

procurement, insurance, and all types of 

contracts. Section 342(c)(2) requires that 

the OMWI Director include in the 

procedures for evaluating contract 

proposals and hiring service providers a 

component that gives consideration to 

the diversity of an applicant, to the 

extent consistent with applicable laws. 

In addition, section 342(c)(2) requires 

that such procedures include a written 

statement, in the form and content 

prescribed by the OMWI Director, that 

a contractor shall ensure, to the 

maximum extent possible, the fair 

inclusion of women and minorities in 

the workforce of the contractor and, as 

applicable, subcontractors. 

Further, section 342(c)(3)(A) requires 

the OMWI Director to establish 

standards and procedures for 

determining whether an agency 

contractor or subcontractor ‘‘has failed 

to make a good faith effort to include 

minorities and women’’ in its 

workforce. Section 342(c)(3)(B)(i) 

provides that if the OMWI Director 

determines that a contractor has failed 

to make good faith efforts, the Director 

shall recommend to the agency 

administrator that the contract be 

terminated. Upon receipt of such a 

recommendation, section 342(c)(3)(B)(ii) 

provides that the agency administrator 

may terminate the contract, make a 

referral to the Office of Federal Contract 

Compliance Programs of the Department 

of Labor, or take other appropriate 

action. 

Under section 342(c)(3)(A) of the 

Dodd-Frank Act, the OMWI Director is 

required to determine whether a 

contractor or subcontractor has made 

good faith efforts to include minorities 

and women in its workforce. The 

proposed Contract Standard would 

require that a Commission contractor, 

upon request from the OMWI Director, 

provide documentation of the actions 

undertaken (and as applicable, the 

actions each covered subcontractor 

under the contract has undertaken) that 

demonstrate its good faith efforts to 

ensure the fair inclusion of minorities 

and women in its workforce. The 

documentation requested may include, 

but is not limited to: (1) The total 

number of employees in the contractor’s 

workforce, and the number of 

employees by race, ethnicity, gender, 

and job title or EEO–1 job category (e.g., 

EEO–1 Report(s)); (2) a list of covered 

subcontract awards under the contract 

that includes the dollar amount of each 

subcontract, date of award, and the 

subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/or 

gender ownership status; (3) the 

contractor’s plan to ensure the fair 

inclusion of minorities and women in 

its workforce, including outreach 

efforts; and (4) for each covered 

subcontractor, the information 

requested in items 1 and 3 above. The 

OMWI Director will consider the 

information submitted in evaluating 

whether the contractor or subcontractor 

has complied with its contractual 

obligation to make good faith efforts to 

ensure the fair inclusion of minorities 

and women in its workforce. 

The Commission’s proposes to satisfy 

section 342(c)(2) through the inclusion 

of a contract standard concerning 

workforce inclusion of minorities and 

women (the ‘‘Contract Standard’’) in 

solicitations and resulting contracts for 

services with a dollar value of $100,000 

or more. The proposed Contract 

Standard is similar to the contract 

clauses adopted by OMWIs of other 

federal financial regulatory agencies.2

The Contract Standard requires the 

service contractor, upon entering into a 

contract with the Commission, to 

confirm that it will ensure, to the 

maximum extent possible and 

consistent with applicable law, the fair 

inclusion of minorities and women in 

its workforce. In addition, the proposed 


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3 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

4 44 U.S.C. 3507(c); 5 CFR 1320.10. 

5 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). 

6Unless otherwise specified, the term 

‘‘contractors’’ refers to contractors and 

subcontractors. 

Contract Standard requires the 

contractor to include the substance of 

the Contract Standard in all 

subcontracts for services awarded under 

the contract with a dollar value of 

$100,000 or more. Accordingly, the 

requirements of the proposed Contract 

Standard will apply to covered 

subcontractors, as prescribed in section 

342(c)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act. 

The proposed Contract Standard 

requires a contractor to provide 

documentation, upon the request of the 

OMWI Director, to demonstrate that it 

has made good faith efforts to ensure the 

fair inclusion of minorities and women 

in its workforce and, as applicable, to 

demonstrate that its covered 

subcontractors have made such good 

faith efforts. ‘‘Good faith efforts’’ are 

interpreted to include actions by a 

contractor (and, as applicable, actions 

by each covered subcontractor) to 

ensure the fair inclusion of women and 

minorities in its workforce, while at the 

same time identifying, and if present, 

removing barriers to minority and 

women employment or expansion of 

employment opportunities for 

minorities and women within its 

workforce. Efforts to remove such 

barriers may include, but are not limited 

to, recruiting to ensure that applicant 

pools include minorities and women, 

providing job-related training, or other 

activity that could lead to removing 

such barriers. 

Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Act 

applies to ‘‘all contracts of [the 

Commission] for services of any kind,’’ 

but the section does not define the term 

‘‘contract.’’ FAR 37.101 defines ‘‘service 

contract’’ as a ‘‘contract that directly 

engages the time and effort of a 

contractor whose primary purpose is to 

perform an identifiable task rather than 

to furnish an end item of supply.’’ 

Pursuant to the FAR definition, this 

proposed Contract Standard will be 

included in all Commission solicitations 

and resulting contracts for services with 

a dollar value of $100,000 or more, and 

in all subcontracts under the related 

prime contract for services with a dollar 

value of $100,000 or more. 

Public Comment 

The proposed Contract Standard is 

being published for public comment 

pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 1707, which 

applies to the publication of a covered 

federal procurement policy, regulation, 

procedure or form. Section 1707 

provides that a procurement policy, 

regulation, procedure or form (including 

an amendment or modification thereof) 

is to be published for public comment 

in the Federal Register if it relates to the 

expenditure of appropriated funds, and 

has either a significant effect beyond the 

internal operating procedures of the 

agency issuing the policy, regulation, 

procedure or form, or has a significant 

cost or administrative impact on 

contractors or offerors. 

Here, the proposed Contract Standard 

relates to the expenditure of 

appropriated funds of the Commission, 

because it will be incorporated in 

certain Commission service contracts 

paid for with appropriated funds. The 

Contract Standard may have a 

significant effect beyond the internal 

operating procedures of the agency, as it 

implements requirements of the DoddFrank Act designed to address minority 

and women inclusion by federal 

contractors and implements the new 

contract termination authority 

contained in section 342(c)(3). The 

proposed Contract Standard may also 

have a cost or administrative impact on 

contractors or offerors, but we believe 

these effects would be insignificant as a 

result of the overlap with existing EEO 

laws. The consequence for noncompliance could have a cost or 

administrative impact on the covered 

service contractors, although they again 

overlap with existing remedies. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

The proposed Contract Standard 

contains ‘‘collection of information’’ 

requirements within the meaning of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(‘‘PRA’’).3 The title for the proposed 

collection of information is: 

• Contract Standard for Contractor 

Workforce Inclusion. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. We intend to submit 

these requirements to the Office of 

Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the PRA and its implementing 

regulations.4 If approved, the responses 

to the new collection of information 

would be mandatory. For collections of 

information not contained in a proposed 

rule, the PRA requires federal agencies 

to publish a notice in the Federal 

Register concerning each proposed 

collection of information and to allow 

60 days for public comment.5 To 

comply with this requirement, we are 

publishing this notice. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

1. Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use 

Under section 342(c)(3)(A) of the 

Dodd-Frank Act, the OMWI Director is 

required to determine whether a 

contractor or subcontractor has made 

good faith efforts to include minorities 

and women in its workforce. The 

proposed Contract Standard would 

require that a Commission contractor, 

upon request from the OMWI Director, 

provide documentation of the actions 

undertaken (and as applicable, the 

actions each covered subcontractor 

under the contract has undertaken) that 

demonstrate its good faith efforts to 

ensure the fair inclusion of minorities 

and women in its workforce. The 

documentation requested may include, 

but is not limited to: (1) The total 

number of employees in the contractor’s 

workforce, and the number of 

employees by race, ethnicity, gender, 

and job title or EEO–1 job category (e.g., 

EEO–1 Report(s)); (2) a list of covered 

subcontract awards under the contract 

that includes the dollar amount of each 

subcontract, date of award, and the 

subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/or 

gender ownership status; (3) the 

contractor’s plan to ensure the fair 

inclusion of minorities and women in 

its workforce, including outreach 

efforts; and (4) for each covered 

subcontractor, the information 

requested in items 1 and 3 above. The 

OMWI Director will consider the 

information submitted in evaluating 

whether the contractor or subcontractor 

has complied with its contractual 

obligation to make good faith efforts to 

ensure the fair inclusion of minorities 

and women in its workforce. 

2. Respondents and Estimate of 

Recordkeeping and Reporting Burdens 

The proposed Contract Standard will 

be included in Commission contracts 

and subcontracts for services with a 

dollar value of $100,000 or more. Based 

on the data showing the dollar value of 

service contracts and subcontracts 

awarded in FY 2012 and FY 2013, we 

estimate that 170 contractors 6 would be 

subject to the proposed Contract 

Standard. Approximately 120 of these 

contractors have 50 or more employees, 

while about 50 contractors have fewer 

than 50 employees. 

a. Recordkeeping Burden 

The information collection under the 

proposed Contract Standard would 


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7 42 U.S.C. 2000e, et seq. 

8Executive Order 11246, 30 FR 12,319 (Sept. 24, 

1965). 

9See 41 CFR 60–1.7. 

10See 41 CFR 60–2.17(c). 

11See 41 CFR part 60–2. 

12According to the Supporting Statement for the 

OFCCP Recordkeeping and Requirements-Supply 

Service, OMB Control No. 1250–003 (‘‘Supporting 

Statement’’), it takes approximately 73 burden 

hours for contractors with 1–100 employees to 

develop the initial written program required under 

the regulations implementing E.O. 11246. We 

understand the quantitative analyses prescribed by 

the Executive Order regulations at 41 CFR part 60– 

2 are a time-consuming aspect of the written 

program development. As there is no requirement 

to perform these types of quantitative analyses in 

connection with a workforce inclusion plan under 

the proposed Contract Standard, we believe the 

workforce inclusion plan will take substantially 

fewer hours to develop. The Supporting Statement 

is available at reginfo.gov. 

13A search of subcontract awards on the 

usaspending.gov Web site showed that four 

subcontractors in FY 2012 and three subcontractors 

in FY 2013 had subcontracts of $100K or more. See 

data on subcontract awards available at http:// 

usaspending.gov. 

impose no new recordkeeping burdens 

on the estimated 120 contractors that 

have 50 or more employees. Such 

contractors are generally subject to 

recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements under the regulations 

implementing Title VII of the Civil 

Rights Act 7 and Executive Order 11246 

(‘‘E.O. 11246’’).8 Their contracts and 

subcontracts must include the clause 

implementing E.O. 11246—FAR 52.222– 

26, Equal Opportunity. In addition, 

contractors that have 50 or more 

employees (and a contract or 

subcontract of $50,000 or more) are 

required to maintain records on the 

race, ethnicity, gender, and EEO–1 job 

category of each employee under 

Department of Labor regulations 

implementing E.O. 11246.9 The 

regulations implementing E.O. 11246 

also require contractors that have 50 or 

more employees (and a contract or 

subcontract of $50,000 or more) to 

demonstrate that they have made good 

faith efforts to remove identified 

barriers, expand employment 

opportunities, and produce measurable 

results,10 and to develop and maintain 

a written program, which describes the 

policies, practices, and procedures that 

the contractor uses to ensure that 

applicants and employees receive equal 

opportunities for employment and 

advancement.11 In lieu of developing a 

separate workforce inclusion plan, a 

contractor would be permitted to submit 

its existing written program prescribed 

by the E.O. 11246 regulations as part of 

the documentation that demonstrates 

the contractor’s good faith efforts to 

ensure the fair inclusion of minorities 

and women in its workforce. Thus, 

approximately 120 contractors are 

already required to maintain the 

information that may be requested 

under the proposed Contract Standard. 

The estimated 50 contractors that 

employ fewer than 50 employees are 

required under the regulations 

implementing E.O. 11246 to maintain 

records showing the race, ethnicity and 

gender of each employee. We believe 

that these contractors also keep job title 

information during the normal course of 

business. However, contractors that 

have fewer than 50 employees may not 

have the written program prescribed by 

the E.O. 11246 regulations or similar 

plan that could be submitted as part of 

the documentation to demonstrate their 

good faith efforts to ensure the fair 

inclusion of minorities and women in 

their workforces. Accordingly, 

contractors with fewer than 50 

employees may have to create a plan to 

ensure workforce inclusion of 

minorities and women. 

In order to estimate the burden on 

contractors associated with creating a 

workforce inclusion plan, we 

considered the burden estimates for 

developing the written programs 

required under the regulations 

implementing E.O. 11246.12 As there is 

no regulatory blueprint for a workforce 

inclusion plan, and contractors creating 

a workforce inclusion plan are not 

required to perform the same types of 

analyses required for the written 

programs prescribed by the E.O. 11246 

regulations, we believe that to develop 

a workforce inclusion plan contractors 

with fewer than 50 employees would 

require approximately a third of the 

hours that contractors of similar size 

spend on developing the written 

programs required under the E.O. 11246 

regulations. Accordingly, we estimate 

that contractors would spend about 24 

hours of employee resources to develop 

a workforce inclusion plan. This would 

be a one-time total burden of 1,200 

hours. After the initial development, we 

estimate that each contractor with fewer 

than 50 employees would spend 

approximately 10 hours each year 

updating and maintaining its workforce 

inclusion plan for a total annual burden 

of 500 hours. To account for this 

expected diminishing burden, we use a 

three-year average of the expected 

burden during the first year with the 

expected ongoing burden during the 

next two years to estimate the annual 

recordkeeping burden on contractors 

with fewer than 50 employees. Thus, we 

estimate that the total annual 

recordkeeping burden for such 

contractors to be about 740 hours 

[(1,200 + 500 + 500)/3 years, rounded 

up]. 

The proposed contract standard also 

would require contractors to maintain 

information about covered 

subcontractors’ ownership status, 

workforce demographics, and workforce 

inclusion plans. Contractors would 

request this information from their 

covered subcontractors, who would 

have an obligation to keep workforce 

demographic data and maintain 

workforce inclusion plans because the 

substance of the proposed Contract 

Standard would be included in their 

subcontracts. Based on data describing 

recent Commission subcontractor 

activity, we believe that very few 

subcontractors will have subcontracts 

under Commission service contracts 

with a dollar value of $100,000 or 

more.13 These subcontractors may 

already be subject to similar 

recordkeeping requirements as principal 

contractors. Consequently, we believe 

that any additional requirements 

imposed on subcontractors would not 

significantly add to the burden 

estimates discussed above. 

b. Reporting Burden 

With respect to the reporting burden, 

we estimate that it would take all 

contractors on average approximately 

one hour to retrieve and submit to the 

OMWI Director the documentation 

specified in the proposed Contract 

Standard. We expect to request 

documentation from up to 100 

contractors each year and therefore we 

estimate the total annual reporting 

burden to be 100 hours. 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

We request comments on the 

proposed collection of information in 

order to: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Commission, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Commission’s estimate 

of the burden (including hours and cost) 

of the proposed collection of 

information; (c) determine whether 

there are ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) evaluate whether 

there are ways to minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Persons who desire to submit 

comments on the collection of 

information may use any of the methods 

shown in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. Comments should be received on 


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or before: April 14, 2015. Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval of this 

information collection; they also will 

become a matter of public record. 

Text of Proposed Contract Standard for 

Contractor Workforce Inclusion 

Note: The Text of this Proposed Contract 

Standard will not appear in the Code of 

Federal Regulations. 

Contractor Workforce Inclusion 

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 5452; Sec. 342, Pub. 

L. 111–203. 

Scope 

The agency will include the 

Contractor Workforce Inclusion contract 

standard in all Commission solicitations 

and resulting contracts for services with 

a dollar value of $100,000 or more. 

Contract Standard 

The following contract standard shall 

be included in all Commission 

solicitations and resulting contracts for 

services with a dollar value of $100,000 

or more. 

Contractor Workforce Inclusion 

The Contractor confirms its 

commitment to equal opportunity in 

employment and contracting, and that it 

shall ensure, to the maximum extent 

possible and consistent with applicable 

law, the fair inclusion of minorities and 

women in its workforce. 

The Contractor shall insert the 

substance of this contract standard in 

each subcontract for services awarded 

for performance of this contract with a 

dollar value of $100,000 or more. 

Within ten (10) business days of a 

written request from the Director of the 

Commission’s Office of Minority and 

Women Inclusion (OMWI Director) or 

designee, or such longer time as the 

OMWI Director or designee determines, 

and without any additional 

consideration, action or authorization 

required from the OMWI Director, the 

Contractor shall provide documentation, 

satisfactory to the OMWI Director, of the 

actions it has undertaken (and as 

applicable, the actions each covered 

subcontractor under the contract has 

undertaken) to demonstrate its good 

faith efforts to comply with the 

aforementioned provisions. 

For purposes of this contract, ‘‘good 

faith efforts’’ shall include actions by 

the Contractor (and as applicable, 

actions by each covered subcontractor 

under the Service Contract) to identify 

and, if present, remove barriers to 

minority and women employment or 

expansion of employment opportunities 

for minorities and women within its 

workforce. Efforts to remove such 

barriers may include, but are not limited 

to, recruiting to ensure that applicant 

pools include minorities and women, 

providing job-related training, or other 

activity that could lead to removing 

such barriers. 

The documentation requested by the 

OMWI Director or designee to 

demonstrate good faith efforts may 

include, but is not limited to, one or 

more of the following: 

a. The total number of Contractor’s 

employees, and the number of 

employees by race, ethnicity, gender, 

and job title or EEO–1 Report job 

category (e.g., EEO–1 Report(s)); 

b. A list of covered subcontract 

awards for services under the contract, 

and for each covered subcontract award, 

the dollar amount, date of award, and 

the subcontractor’s race, ethnicity, and/ 

or gender ownership status; 

c. The contractor’s plan for ensuring 

the fair inclusion of minorities and 

women in its workforce, including 

outreach efforts; and 

d. For each covered subcontractor, the 

documentation specified in paragraphs 

a. and c. above. 

Consistent with Section 342(c)(3) of 

the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act (the ‘‘DoddFrank Act’’), 12 U.S.C. 5452(c)(3), a 

Contractor’s failure to demonstrate to 

the OMWI Director that it has made 

good faith efforts to include minorities 

and women in its workforce (and as 

applicable, failure to demonstrate that 

its subcontractor(s) has made such good 

faith efforts) may result in termination 

of the contract for default after the 

contractor is provided written notice 

and an opportunity to cure the failure in 

accordance with the procedures set 

forth in FAR 49.402–3(d), other 

contractual remedies, referral to the 

Office of Federal Contract Compliance 

Programs (OFCCP), or other appropriate 

action. 

Compliance with this standard does 

not necessarily satisfy the requirements 

of EO 11246, as amended, nor does it 

preclude OFCCP compliance 

evaluations and/or enforcement actions 

undertaken pursuant to that Executive 

Order, or demonstrate compliance with 

other FAR clauses that may be included 

in this contract. 

For purposes of this contract 

standard, the term ‘‘minority’’ shall 

have the meaning set forth in section 

342(g) of the Dodd-Frank Act. 

Dated: February 10, 2015. 

By the Commission. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements under OMB review 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Small Business 

Administration (SBA) is publishing this 

notice to comply with requirements of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), which requires 

agencies to submit proposed reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements to 

OMB for review and approval, and to 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

notifying the public that the agency has 

made such a submission. This notice 

also allows an additional 30 days for 

public comments. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to 

the information collection by name and/ 

or OMB Control Number and should be 

sent to: Agency Clearance Officer, Curtis 

Rich, Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW., 5th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20416; and SBA Desk 

Officer, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Curtis Rich, Agency Clearance Officer, 

(202) 205–7030 curtis.rich@sba.gov 

Copies: A copy of the Form OMB 83– 

1, supporting statement, and other 

documents submitted to OMB for 

review may be obtained from the 

Agency Clearance Officer. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Women’s Business Council 

will examine women’s participation in 

business incubation and acceleration 

programs to understand the 

characteristics of incubators and 

acceleration that affect the business 

outcomes of women business owners. 

NWBC will also gain insight into factors 

that affect women’s participation in 

these programs. Respondents will be 

managers of incubators and accelerators, 

women owners who graduated from the 

programs and a sample of women 

business owners from the general 

population. 


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