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1On December 21, 2021, the U. S. Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) published its 

‘‘Notice of NAICS 2022 Final Decisions . . . ’’ (86 

FR 72277), accepting the Economic Classification 

Policy Committee (ECPC) recommendations, as 

outlined in the July 2, 2021, Federal Register notice 

(86 FR 35350), for the 2022 revisions to the North 

American Industry Classification System (NAICS), 

. . . .’’ In the near future, SBA will issue a proposed 

rule to adopt the OMB’s NAICS 2022 revisions for 

its table of size standards. SBA anticipates updating 

its size standards with the NAICS 2022 revisions, 

effective October 1, 2022. 

SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARDS BY NAICS INDUSTRY—Continued 

NAICS codes NAICS U.S. industry title 

Size standards 

in millions of 

dollars 

Size standards 

in number of 

employees 

*******

532411 ................................ Commercial Air, Rail, and Water Transportation Equipment Rental and 

Leasing.

40.0 .................. ............................

* * * * * * * 

Footnotes 

* * * * * * * 8 NAICS Codes 522110, 522120, 522130, 522190, and 522210—A financial institution’s assets are determined by averaging the assets reported on its four quarterly financial statements for the preceding year. ‘‘Assets’’ for the purposes of this size standard means the assets defined 

according to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council 041 call report form for NAICS Codes 522110, 522120, 522190, and 522210 

and the National Credit Union Administration 5300 call report form for NAICS code 522130. 

* * * * * * * 10 NAICS codes 488510 (excluding the exception), 531210, 541810, 561510, 561520 and 561920—As measured by total revenues, but excluding funds received in trust for an unaffiliated third party, such as bookings or sales subject to commissions. The commissions received are 

included as revenues. 

* * * * * * * 

Isabella Casillas Guzman, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06609 Filed 3–30–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8026–03–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

13 CFR Part 121 

RIN 3245–AG88 

Small Business Size Standards: 

Education Services; Health Care and 

Social Assistance; Arts, Entertainment 

and Recreation; Accommodation and 

Food Services; Other Services 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA) is increasing its 

receipts-based small business size 

definitions (commonly referred to as 

‘‘size standards’’) for North American 

Industry Classification System (NAICS) 

sectors related to Education Services; 

Health Care and Social Assistance; Arts, 

Entertainment and Recreation; 

Accommodation and Food Services; and 

Other Services. Specifically, SBA is 

increasing the size standards for 70 

industries in those sectors, including 14 

industries in NAICS Sector 61 

(Education Services), 18 industries in 

Sector 62 (Health Care and Social 

Assistance), 11 industries in Sector 71 

(Arts, Entertainment and Recreation), 

four industries in Sector 72 

(Accommodation and Food Services), 

and 23 industries in Sector 81 (Other 

Services). 

DATES: This rule is effective May 2, 

2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Samuel Castilla, Economist, Office of 

Size Standards, (202) 205–6618 or 

sizestandards@sba.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Discussion of Size Standards 

To determine eligibility for Federal 

small business assistance, SBA 

establishes small business size 

definitions (usually referred to as ‘‘size 

standards’’) for private sector industries 

in the United States. SBA uses two 

primary measures of business size for 

size standards purposes: average annual 

receipts and average number of 

employees. SBA uses financial assets for 

certain financial industries and refining 

capacity, in addition to employees, for 

the petroleum refining industry to 

measure business size. In addition, 

SBA’s Small Business Investment 

Company (SBIC), Certified Development 

Company (CDC/504), and 7(a) Loan 

Programs use either the industry-based 

size standards or tangible net worth and 

net income-based alternative size 

standards to determine eligibility for 

those programs. 

In September 2010, Congress passed 

the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–240, 124 Stat. 2504, 

September 27, 2010) (‘‘Jobs Act’’), 

requiring SBA to review all size 

standards every five years and make 

necessary adjustments to reflect current 

industry and market conditions. In 

accordance with the Jobs Act, in early 

2016, SBA completed the first five-year 

review of all size standards—except 

those for agricultural enterprises for 

which size standards were previously 

set by Congress—and made appropriate 

adjustments to size standards for a 

number of industries to reflect current 

industry and Federal market conditions. 

SBA also adjusts its monetary-based size 

standards for inflation at least once 

every five years. An interim final rule 

on SBA’s latest inflation adjustment to 

size standards, effective August 19, 

2019, was published in the Federal 

Register on July 18, 2019 (84 FR 34261). 

SBA also updates its size standards 

every five years to adopt the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

quinquennial North American Industry 

Classification (NAICS) revisions to its 

table of small business size standards. 

Effective October 1, 2017, SBA adopted 

the OMB’s 2017 NAICS revisions to its 

size standards (82 FR 44886, September 

27, 2017).1

This final rule is one of a series of 

final rules that will revise size standards 

of industries grouped by various NAICS 

sectors. Rather than revise all size 

standards at one time, SBA is revising 

size standards by grouping industries 

within various NAICS sectors that use 

the same size measure (i.e., employees 

or receipts). In the prior review, SBA 

revised size standards mostly on a 

sector-by-sector basis. As part of the 

second five-year review of size 

standards under the Jobs Act, SBA 

reviewed all receipt-based size 

standards in NAICS Sectors 61, 62, 71, 

72, and 81 to determine whether the 

existing size standards should be 

retained or revised based on the current 


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industry and Federal market data. After 

its review, SBA published in the 

November 27, 2020, issue of the Federal 

Register (85 FR 76390) a proposed rule 

to increase the size standards for 14 

industries in NAICS Sector 61 

(Education Services), 18 industries in 

Sector 62 (Health Care and Social 

Assistance), 11 industries in Sector 71 

(Arts, Entertainment and Recreation), 

four industries in Sector 72 

(Accommodation and Food Services), 

and 23 industries in Sector 81 (Other 

Services). In this final rule, SBA is 

adopting the proposed size standards 

from the November 2020 proposed rule 

without change. 

In conjunction with the current 

comprehensive size standards review, 

SBA developed a revised ‘‘Size 

Standards Methodology’’ (Methodology) 

for developing, reviewing, and 

modifying size standards, when 

necessary. SBA’s revised Methodology 

provides a detailed description of its 

analyses of various industry and 

program factors and data sources, and 

how the agency uses the results to 

establish and revise size standards. In 

the proposed rule itself, SBA detailed 

how it applied its revised Methodology 

to review and modify where necessary, 

the existing size standards for industries 

covered in this final rule. Prior to 

finalizing the revised Methodology, SBA 

issued a notification in the April 27, 

2018, edition of the Federal Register (83 

FR 18468) to solicit comments from the 

public and notify stakeholders of the 

proposed changes to the Methodology. 

SBA considered all public comments in 

finalizing the revised Methodology. For 

a summary of comments and SBA’s 

responses, refer to the SBA’s April 11, 

2019, Federal Register notification (84 

FR 14587) of the issuance of the final 

revised Methodology. SBA’s Size 

Standard Methodology is available on 

its website at www.sba.gov/size. 

In evaluating an industry’s size 

standard, SBA examines its 

characteristics (such as average firm 

size, startup costs and entry barriers, 

industry competition and distribution of 

firms by size) and the small business 

level and share of Federal contract 

dollars in that industry. SBA also 

examines the potential impact a size 

standard revision might have on its 

financial assistance programs, and 

whether a business concern under a 

revised size standard would be 

dominant in its industry. SBA analyzed 

the characteristics of each receipt-based 

industry in NAICS Sectors 61, 62, 71, 

72, and 81, mostly using a special 

tabulation obtained from the U.S. 

Bureau of the Census from its 2012 

Economic Census (the latest available). 

The 2012 Economic Census special 

tabulation contains information for 

different levels of NAICS categories on 

average and median firm size in terms 

of both receipts and employment, total 

receipts generated by the four and eight 

largest firms, the Herfindahl-Hirschman 

Index (HHI), the Gini coefficient, and 

size distributions of firms by various 

receipts and employment size 

groupings. To evaluate average asset 

size, SBA combines the sales to total 

assets ratios by industry, obtained from 

the Risk Management Association’s 

(RMA) Annual eStatement Studies 

(http://www.rmahq.org/estatementstudies/) with the simple average 

receipts size by industry from the 2012 

Economic Census tabulation to estimate 

the average assets size for each industry. 

SBA also evaluated the small business 

level and share of Federal contracts in 

each of the industries using data from 

the Federal Procurement Data System— 

Next Generation (FPDS–NG) for fiscal 

years 2016–2018. Table 4 of the 

November 2020 proposed rule, Size 

Standards Supported by Each Factor for 

Each Industry (Receipts), shows the 

results of analyses of industry and 

Federal contracting factors for each 

industry and subindustry (exception) 

covered by the proposed rule. Of the 

144 industries and one subindustry 

(exception) reviewed in the proposed 

rule, the results from analyses of the 

latest available data on the five primary 

factors from Table 4 of the proposed 

rule supported increasing size standards 

for 70 industries, decreasing size 

standards for 63 industries, and 

retaining size standards for 12 

industries. Table 1, Summary of 

Calculated Size Standards, below, 

summarizes the analytical results from 

the proposed rule by NAICS sector. 

TABLE 1—SUMMARY OF CALCULATED SIZE STANDARDS

NAICS 

sector Sector name 

Number of 

size standards 

reviewed 

Number of 

size standards 

increased 

Number of 

size standards 

decreased 

Number of 

size standards 

unchanged 

61 ......................... Education Services ........................................................ 18 14 4 0 

62 ......................... Health Care and Social Assistance ............................... 39 18 18 3 

71 ......................... Arts, Entertainment and Recreation .............................. 25 11 11 3 

72 ......................... Accommodation and Food Services ............................. 15 4 9 2 

81 ......................... Other Services ............................................................... 48 23 21 4 

All Sectors .... ........................................................................................ 145 70 63 12 

In the November 2020 proposed rule, 

SBA discussed the impacts of the 

COVID–19 pandemic on small 

businesses and greater society. 

Recognizing the wide-ranging economic 

impacts of the pandemic, SBA decided 

not to lower any size standards for 

which the analysis suggested lowering 

them. Instead, SBA proposed to 

maintain all size standards for 

industries in which the analytical 

results supported a decrease or no 

change to size standards and adopt all 

size standards for which the analytical 

results supported an increase to size 

standards. To evaluate the impact of the 

changes to size standards adopted in 

this final rule on the Federal contracting 

market and SBA’s loan programs, SBA 

analyzed FPDS–NG data for fiscal years 

2018–2020 and internal data on its 

guaranteed loan programs for fiscal 

years 2018–2020. The results of this 

analysis can be found in the Regulatory 

Impact Analysis section of this final 

rule. 

In the proposed rule, SBA sought 

comments on its proposal to increase 

size standards for 70 industries and 

retain the current size standards for the 

remaining 75 industries or subindustries 

in Sectors 61, 62, 71, 72, and 81. 

Specifically, SBA requested comments 

on whether the proposed revisions are 

appropriate for the industries covered 

by the proposed rule; whether the 

decision not to lower any size standards 

is justified by the COVID–19 pandemic; 

whether the equal weighting of 

individual factors to derive an industry 

size standard is appropriate; and 


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whether the data sources used were 

appropriate or sufficient. 

Discussion of Comments 

SBA received a total of 12 comments 

on the proposed rule, only three of 

which were related to size standards; 

the other nine comments were mostly 

concerned with impacts from the 

COVID–19 pandemic and getting 

qualified for government relief, 

including the Paycheck Protection 

Program (PPP) and Economic Injury 

Disaster Loan (EIDL) Programs, which is 

beyond the scope of the proposed rule. 

The comments to the proposed rule are 

available at www.regulations.gov (RIN 

3245–AG88) and are summarized and 

discussed below. 

Comments on Proposed Changes to Size 

Standards 

Of the three comments that pertained 

to size standards, one expressed general 

support of the proposed size standards 

increases in the proposed rule, arguing 

that extending the circle of small 

businesses will help medium-small 

businesses that have just exceeded size 

standards regain small business status 

and will allow small businesses to grow 

and still be able to qualify as a small 

business, which will have a positive 

effect on the U.S. economy. The second 

comment supported the SBA’s proposed 

increase to the size standard for NAICS 

624410 (Child Day Care Services) from 

$8 million to $8.5 million. The 

commenter stated that the proposed 

change supports childcare and 

preschool services, which are severely 

impacted by the COVID–19 pandemic, 

as the change will enable them to obtain 

financial support to survive. 

The third comment was from an 

industry association representing 

amusement or theme parks, water parks, 

attractions, family entertainment 

centers, arcades, ariel adventure 

courses, zoos, aquariums, museums, 

science centers, and resorts categories, 

which fall under NAICS 713110 

(Amusement and Theme Parks) with the 

current size standard of $41.5 million, 

which happens to be the highest of any 

receipts-based size standards. Citing 

increasing operating costs and increased 

investments to comply with the COVID– 

19 pandemic requirements, the 

commenter urged SBA to increase the 

size standard for NAICS 713110. 

Specifically, the association urged SBA 

to either consider changing the measure 

of SBA size eligibility for NAICS 713110 

from receipts to net income or to 

substantially increase its receipts-based 

size standard. 

SBA Response 

SBA rejects the association’s 

suggestion for the following reasons. 

First, section 3(a)(2)(C)(ii)(II) of the 

Small Business Act provides that the 

size of a business concern providing 

services (such as those in NAICS 

713110) must be determined based on 

the annual average gross receipts. 

Accordingly, SBA rejects net income as 

a measure of size for NAICS 713110. 

Second, in accordance with its ‘‘Size 

Standards Methodology’’ SBA caps the 

highest receipts-based size standard at 

$41.5 million, above which no business 

concern could be classified as small. 

Because NAICS 713110 already has the 

highest possible $41.5 million receiptsbased size standard, SBA cannot 

increase the size standard for that 

NAICS code beyond $41.5 million. SBA 

agrees with a comment that expressed 

general support to the proposed rule 

and another comment that supported 

the SBA proposed increase to the size 

standard for NAICS 624410. 

Summary of Adopted Revisions to Size 

Standards 

Based on the evaluation of public 

comments it received on the proposed 

rule and on its analyses of industry and 

Federal contracting factors using the 

latest available data when the proposed 

rule was prepared, and given the 

expressed support for SBA’s proposed 

increases and the absence of any 

significant adverse comments opposing 

the increase, SBA is adopting the size 

standards as proposed in the November 

2020 proposed rule. Thus, SBA is 

increasing the size standards for 14 

industries in NAICS Sector 61, 18 

industries in Sector 62, 11 industries in 

Sector 71, four industries in Sector 72, 

and 23 industries in Sector 81. A 

summary of SBA’s size standards 

revisions in this rule can be found in 

Table 2, Summary of Size Standards 

Revisions in NAICS Sectors 61, 62, 71, 

72, and 81. 

TABLE 2—SUMMARY OF SIZE STANDARDS REVISIONS IN NAICS SECTORS 61, 62, 71, 72 AND 81 

NAICS code NAICS U.S. industry title 

Current size 

standard 

($ million) 

Calculated 

size standard 

($ million) 

Adopted size 

standard 

($ million) 

611110 ................ Elementary and Secondary Schools .......................................................... $12.0 $17.5 $17.5 

611210 ................ Junior Colleges .......................................................................................... 22.0 28.5 28.5 

611310 ................ Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools ..................................... 30.0 30.5 30.5 

611410 ................ Business and Secretarial Schools ............................................................. 8.0 18.0 18.0 

611420 ................ Computer Training ..................................................................................... 12.0 14.0 14.0 

611430 ................ Professional and Management Development Training .............................. 12.0 13.0 13.0 

611511 ................ Cosmetology and Barber Schools ............................................................. 8.0 11.5 11.5 

611512 ................ Flight Training ............................................................................................ 30.0 28.0 30.0 

611513 ................ Apprenticeship Training ............................................................................. 8.0 10.0 10.0 

611519 ................ Other Technical and Trade Schools .......................................................... 16.5 18.5 18.5

611519 (Exception).Job Corps Centers ..................................................................................... 41.5 37.0 41.5 

611610 ................ Fine Arts Schools ....................................................................................... 8.0 7.0 8.0 

611620 ................ Sports and Recreation Instruction ............................................................. 8.0 7.0 8.0

611630 ................ Language Schools ..................................................................................... 12.0 18.0 18.0 

611691 ................ Exam Preparation and Tutoring ................................................................. 8.0 11.0 11.0 

611692 ................ Automobile Driving Schools ....................................................................... 8.0 9.0 9.0 

611699 ................ All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction ...................................... 12.0 14.5 14.5 

611710 ................ Educational Support Services .................................................................... 16.5 21.0 21.0 

621111 ................ Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) ......................... 12.0 14.0 14.0 

621112 ................ Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists ....................................... 12.0 8.0 12.0 

621210 ................ Offices of Dentists ...................................................................................... 8.0 7.5 8.0 

621310 ................ Offices of Chiropractors ............................................................................. 8.0 6.5 8.0 

621320 ................ Offices of Optometrists .............................................................................. 8.0 6.5 8.0 

621330 ................ Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) ....................... 8.0 7.0 8.0 


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NAICS code NAICS U.S. industry title 

Current size 

standard 

($ million) 

Calculated 

size standard 

($ million) 

Adopted size 

standard 

($ million) 

621340 ................ Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists.8.0 11.0 11.0 

621391 ................ Offices of Podiatrists .................................................................................. 8.0 6.5 8.0 

621399 ................ Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners ............................ 8.0 9.0 9.0 

621410 ................ Family Planning Centers ............................................................................ 12.0 16.5 16.5 

621420 ................ Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers ......................... 16.5 14.0 16.5 

621491 ................ HMO Medical Centers ................................................................................ 35.0 39.0 39.0 

621492 ................ Kidney Dialysis Centers ............................................................................. 41.5 41.5 41.5 

621493 ................ Freestanding Ambulatory Surgical and Emergency Centers .................... 16.5 15.5 16.5 

621498 ................ All Other Outpatient Care Centers ............................................................. 22.0 22.5 22.5 

621511 ................ Medical Laboratories .................................................................................. 35.0 36.5 36.5 

621512 ................ Diagnostic Imaging Centers ....................................................................... 16.5 15.0 16.5 

621610 ................ Home Health Care Services ...................................................................... 16.5 16.5 16.5 

621910 ................ Ambulance Services .................................................................................. 16.5 20.0 20.0 

621991 ................ Blood and Organ Banks ............................................................................. 35.0 34.5 35.0 

621999 ................ All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services ...................... 16.5 18.0 18.0 

622110 ................ General Medical and Surgical Hospitals .................................................... 41.5 30.0 41.5 

622210 ................ Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals ............................................. 41.5 23.5 41.5 

622310 ................ Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals ............... 41.5 30.0 41.5 

623110 ................ Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) .................................... 30.0 25.0 30.0 

623210 ................ Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities ................ 16.5 15.5 16.5 

623220 ................ Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities ...................... 16.5 15.0 16.5 

623311 ................ Continuing Care Retirement Communities ................................................ 30.0 22.5 30.0 

623312 ................ Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly .................................................... 12.0 20.5 20.5 

623990 ................ Other Residential Care Facilities ............................................................... 12.0 14.0 14.0 

624110 ................ Child and Youth Services .......................................................................... 12.0 13.5 13.5 

624120 ................ Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities .............................. 12.0 13.0 13.0 

624190 ................ Other Individual and Family Services ........................................................ 12.0 14.0 14.0 

624210 ................ Community Food Services ......................................................................... 12.0 17.0 17.0 

624221 ................ Temporary Shelters .................................................................................... 12.0 11.5 12.0 

624229 ................ Other Community Housing Services .......................................................... 16.5 16.5 16.5 

624230 ................ Emergency and Other Relief Services ...................................................... 35.0 36.5 36.5 

624310 ................ Vocational Rehabilitation Services ............................................................. 12.0 13.0 13.0 

624410 ................ Child Day Care Services ............................................................................ 8.0 8.5 8.5 

711110 ................ Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters ................................................. 22.0 20.0 22.0 

711120 ................ Dance Companies ...................................................................................... 12.0 16.0 16.0 

711130 ................ Musical Groups and Artists ........................................................................ 12.0 13.0 13.0 

711190 ................ Other Performing Arts Companies ............................................................. 30.0 29.5 30.0 

711211 ................ Sports Teams and Clubs ........................................................................... 41.5 29.5 41.5 

711212 ................ Racetracks ................................................................................................. 41.5 33.5 41.5 

711219 ................ Other Spectator Sports .............................................................................. 12.0 14.5 14.5 

711310 ................ Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities 35.0 23.5 35.0 

711320 ................ Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities.16.5 19.5 19.5 

711410 ................ Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures.12.0 15.5 15.5 

711510 ................ Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers ........................................... 8.0 8.0 8.0 

712110 ................ Museums .................................................................................................... 30.0 25.5 30.0 

712120 ................ Historical Sites ........................................................................................... 8.0 11.5 11.5 

712130 ................ Zoos and Botanical Gardens ..................................................................... 30.0 25.0 30.0 

712190 ................ Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions .............................................. 8.0 17.0 17.0 

713110 ................ Amusement and Theme Parks .................................................................. 41.5 41.5 41.5

713120 ................ Amusement Arcades .................................................................................. 8.0 8.0 8.0 

713210 ................ Casinos (except Casino Hotels) ................................................................ 30.0 25.0 30.0 

713290 ................ Other Gambling Industries ......................................................................... 35.0 25.0 35.0 

713910 ................ Golf Courses and Country Clubs ............................................................... 16.5 11.0 16.5 

713920 ................ Skiing Facilities .......................................................................................... 30.0 31.0 31.0 

713930 ................ Marinas ....................................................................................................... 8.0 9.5 9.5 

713940 ................ Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers .................................................. 8.0 15.5 15.5 

713950 ................ Bowling Centers ......................................................................................... 8.0 11.0 11.0 

713990 ................ All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries ...................................... 8.0 7.0 8.0 

721110 ................ Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels ................................................ 35.0 30.5 35.0 

721120 ................ Casino Hotels ............................................................................................. 35.0 31.0 35.0 

721191 ................ Bed-and-Breakfast Inns ............................................................................. 8.0 6.5 8.0 

721199 ................ All Other Traveler Accommodation ............................................................ 8.0 8.0 8.0 

721211 ................ RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Campgrounds ................................ 8.0 9.0 9.0 

721214 ................ Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds) ...................... 8.0 8.0 8.0 

721310 ................ Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers’ Camps ........ 8.0 12.5 12.5 

722310 ................ Food Service Contractors .......................................................................... 41.5 38.0 41.5 

722320 ................ Caterers ...................................................................................................... 8.0 6.5 8.0 


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NAICS code NAICS U.S. industry title 

Current size 

standard 

($ million) 

Calculated 

size standard 

($ million) 

Adopted size 

standard 

($ million) 

722330 ................ Mobile Food Services ................................................................................ 8.0 6.5 8.0 

722410 ................ Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) ...................................................... 8.0 6.5 8.0 

722511 ................ Full-Service Restaurants ............................................................................ 8.0 10.0 10.0 

722513 ................ Limited-Service Restaurants ...................................................................... 12.0 11.0 12.0 

722514 ................ Cafeterias, Grill Buffets, and Buffets ......................................................... 30.0 15.5 30.0 

722515 ................ Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars ................................................... 8.0 20.0 20.0 

811111 ................ General Automotive Repair ........................................................................ 8.0 8.0 8.0 

811112 ................ Automotive Exhaust System Repair .......................................................... 8.0 7.0 8.0 

811113 ................ Automotive Transmission Repair ............................................................... 8.0 6.5 8.0 

811118 ................ Other Automotive Mechanical and Electrical Repair and Maintenance .... 8.0 7.5 8.0 

811121 ................ Automotive Body, Paint, and Interior Repair and Maintenance ................ 8.0 7.0 8.0 

811122 ................ Automotive Glass Replacement Shops ..................................................... 12.0 15.5 15.5 

811191 ................ Automotive Oil Change and Lubrication Shops ......................................... 8.0 9.5 9.5 

811192 ................ Car Washes ............................................................................................... 8.0 8.0 8.0 

811198 ................ All Other Automotive Repair and Maintenance ......................................... 8.0 9.0 9.0 

811211 ................ Consumer Electronics Repair and Maintenance ....................................... 8.0 22.5 22.5 

811212 ................ Computer and Office Machine Repair and Maintenance .......................... 30.0 17.5 30.0 

811213 ................ Communication Equipment Repair and Maintenance ............................... 12.0 19.5 19.5 

811219 ................ Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance ....... 22.0 22.0 22.0 

811310 ................ Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance.8.0 11.0 11.0 

811411 ................ Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance .......................... 8.0 7.0 8.0 

811412 ................ Appliance Repair and Maintenance ........................................................... 16.5 12.5 16.5

811420 ................ Reupholstery and Furniture Repair ............................................................ 8.0 6.5 8.0 

811430 ................ Footwear and Leather Goods Repair ........................................................ 8.0 7.5 8.0 

811490 ................ Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance ............. 8.0 6.5 8.0 

812111 ................ Barber Shops ............................................................................................. 8.0 8.5 8.5 

812112 ................ Beauty Salons ............................................................................................ 8.0 8.5 8.5 

812113 ................ Nail Salons ................................................................................................. 8.0 6.5 8.0 

812191 ................ Diet and Weight Reducing Centers ........................................................... 22.0 24.0 24.0

812199 ................ Other Personal Care Services ................................................................... 8.0 6.5 8.0 

812210 ................ Funeral Homes and Funeral Services ....................................................... 8.0 11.0 11.0 

812220 ................ Cemeteries and Crematories ..................................................................... 22.0 18.5 22.0 

812310 ................ Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners ............................................... 8.0 11.5 11.5 

812320 ................ Drycleaning and Laundry Services (except Coin-Operated) ..................... 6.0 7.0 7.0 

812331 ................ Linen Supply .............................................................................................. 35.0 32.0 35.0 

812332 ................ Industrial Launderers ................................................................................. 41.5 40.5 41.5 

812910 ................ Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services ...................................................... 8.0 6.5 8.0 

812921 ................ Photofinishing Laboratories (except One-Hour) ........................................ 22.0 26.0 26.0 

812922 ................ One-Hour Photofinishing ............................................................................ 16.5 16.0 16.5 

812930 ................ Parking Lots and Garages ......................................................................... 41.5 25.5 41.5 

812990 ................ All Other Personal Services ....................................................................... 8.0 13.0 13.0 

813110 ................ Religious Organizations ............................................................................. 8.0 11.5 11.5 

813211 ................ Grantmaking Foundations .......................................................................... 35.0 35.0 35.0 

813212 ................ Voluntary Health Organizations ................................................................. 30.0 27.0 30.0 

813219 ................ Other Grantmaking and Giving Services ................................................... 41.5 22.5 41.5 

813311 ................ Human Rights Organizations ..................................................................... 30.0 28.5 30.0 

813312 ................ Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations ............................ 16.5 17.0 17.0 

813319 ................ Other Social Advocacy Organizations ....................................................... 8.0 16.0 16.0 

813410 ................ Civic and Social Organizations .................................................................. 8.0 8.5 8.5 

813910 ................ Business Associations ............................................................................... 8.0 13.5 13.5 

813920 ................ Professional Organizations ........................................................................ 16.5 20.5 20.5 

813930 ................ Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations ......................................... 8.0 14.5 14.5 

813940 ................ Political Organizations ................................................................................ 8.0 12.5 12.5 

813990 ................ Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and 

Political Organizations).

8.0 12.0 12.0 

Table 3, Summary of Adopted Size 

Standards Revisions by Sector, 

summarizes the adopted changes to size 

standards by NAICS sector. 

TABLE 3—SUMMARY OF ADOPTED SIZE STANDARDS REVISIONS BY SECTOR

NAICS 

sector Sector name 

Number of 

size standards 

reviewed 

Number of 

size standards 

increased 

Number of 

size standards 

decreased 

Number of 

size standards 

maintained 

61 ................ Education Services ................................................................. 18 14 0 4 

62 ................ Health Care and Social Assistance ....................................... 39 18 0 21 


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NAICS 

sector Sector name 

Number of 

size standards 

reviewed 

Number of 

size standards 

increased 

Number of 

size standards 

decreased 

Number of 

size standards 

maintained 

71 ......................... Arts, Entertainment and Recreation .............................. 25 11 0 14 

72 ......................... Accommodation and Food Services ............................. 15 4 0 11 

81 ......................... Other Services ............................................................... 48 23 0 25 

All Sectors .... ........................................................................................ 145 70 0 75 

Evaluation of Dominance in Field of 

Operation 

SBA determined that for the 

industries evaluated under this final 

rule, no individual firm at or below the 

adopted size standards would be large 

enough to dominate its field of 

operation. At the size standard levels 

adopted in this final rule, the small 

business share of total industry receipts 

among those industries would be, on 

average, 0.63%, varying from 0.003% to 

22.3%. These market shares effectively 

preclude a firm at or below the adopted 

size standards from exerting control on 

any of the industries. 

Alternatives Considered 

In response to the unprecedented 

economic impacts of the COVID–19 

pandemic on small businesses and 

Government response, SBA is adopting 

increases to size standards where the 

data suggests increases are warranted, 

and retaining all current size standards 

where the data suggested lowering is 

appropriate. SBA is also retaining all 

current size standards where the data 

suggested no changes to the current size 

standards. 

Nonetheless, SBA considered two 

other alternatives. Alternative Option 

One was to adopt changes to size 

standards exactly as suggested by the 

analytical results. In other words, 

Alternative Option One would entail 

increasing size standards for 70 

industries, decreasing them for 63 

industries, and retaining them at their 

current levels for 12 industries. 

Alternative Option Two was to retain all 

current size standards. 

SBA is not adopting Alternative 

Option One because it would cause a 

substantial number of currently small 

businesses to lose their small business 

status and hence to lose their access to 

Federal small business assistance, 

especially small business set-aside 

contracts and SBA’s financial assistance 

in some cases. Impacts of lowering size 

standards under Alternative Option One 

are discussed in detail in the Regulatory 

Impact Analysis section of this rule. 

Lowering size standards in the current 

environment would also run counter to 

various measures the Federal 

Government has implemented to help 

small businesses and the overall 

economy recover from the ongoing 

COVID–19 pandemic. Considering the 

impacts of the Great Recession and 

Government actions that followed to 

support small businesses and the overall 

economy, SBA also adopted a policy of 

not decreasing size standards during the 

first five-year review of size standards, 

even though the data supported 

decreases. 

Under Alternative Option Two, given 

the current COVID–19 pandemic, SBA 

considered retaining the current level of 

all size standards even though the 

current analysis may suggest changing 

them. Under this option, as the current 

situation develops, SBA will be able to 

assess new data available on economic 

indicators, federal procurement, and 

SBA loans before adopting changes to 

size standards. However, SBA is not 

adopting Alternative Option Two 

because results discussed in the 

Regulatory Impact Analysis section, 

below, shows that retaining all size 

standards at their current levels would 

cause otherwise qualified small 

businesses to forgo various small 

business benefits becoming available to 

them under the option of increasing 70 

and retaining 75 size standards. Such 

benefits would include access to Federal 

contracts set aside for small businesses 

and capital through SBA’s loan and 

SBIC programs, and exemptions from 

paperwork and other compliance 

requirements. 

Compliance With Executive Orders 

12866, the Congressional Review Act (5 

U.S.C. 801–808), the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601–612), 

Executive Orders 13563, 12988, and 

13132, and the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (44 U.S.C. Ch. 35) 

Executive Order 12866 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) has determined that this final 

rule is a significant regulatory action for 

purposes of Executive Order 12866. 

Accordingly, in the next section SBA 

provides a Regulatory Impact Analysis 

of this final rule, including (1) A 

statement of the need for the regulatory 

action, (2) An examination of alternative 

approaches, and (3) An evaluation of the 

benefits and costs—both quantitative 

and qualitative—of the regulatory action 

and the alternatives considered. 

Regulatory Impact Analysis 

1. What is the need for this regulatory 

action? 

SBA’s mission is to aid and assist 

small businesses through a variety of 

financial, procurement, business 

development and counseling, and 

disaster assistance programs. To 

determine the actual intended 

beneficiaries of these programs, SBA 

establishes numerical size standards by 

industry to identify businesses that are 

deemed small. Under the Small 

Business Act (Act) (15 U.S.C. 632(a)), 

SBA’s Administrator is responsible for 

establishing small business size 

definitions (or ‘‘size standards’’) and 

ensuring that such definitions vary from 

industry to industry to reflect 

differences among various industries. 

The Jobs Act requires SBA to review 

every five years all size standards and 

make necessary adjustments to reflect 

current industry and Federal market 

conditions. This final rule is part of the 

second five-year review of size 

standards in accordance with the Jobs 

Act. The first five-year review of size 

standards was completed in early 2016. 

Such periodic reviews of size standards 

provide SBA with an opportunity to 

incorporate ongoing changes to industry 

structure and Federal market 

environment into size standards and to 

evaluate the impacts of prior revisions 

to size standards on small businesses. 

This also provides SBA with an 

opportunity to seek and incorporate 

public input to the size standards 

review and analysis. SBA believes that 

the size standards revisions adopted for 

industries being reviewed in this final 

rule will make size standards more 

reflective of the current economic 

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2The analysis of the disaster loan data excludes 

physical disaster loans that are available to anyone 

regardless of size, disaster loans issued to nonprofit 

entities, and EIDLs issued under the COVID–19 

relief program. Effective January 1, 2022, SBA 

stopped accepting applications for new COVID 

EIDL loans or advances. Thus, the disaster loan 

analysis presented here pertains to the regular EIDL 

loans only. 

SBA estimates impacts of size standards changes 

on EIDL loans by calculating the ratio of businesses 

getting EIDL loans to total small businesses (based 

on the Economic Census data) and multiplying it 

by the number of impacted small firms. Due to data 

limitations, for FY 2019–20, some loans with both 

physical and EIDL loan components could not be 

broken into the physical and EIDL loan amounts. 

In such cases, SBA applied the ratio of EIDL 

amount to total (physical loan + EIDL) amount 

using FY 2016–18 data to the FY 2019–20 data to 

obtain the amount attributable to the EIDL loans. 

industries and the latest trends in 

Federal marketplace. 

The revisions to the existing size 

standards for 70 industries in NAICS 

Sectors 61, 62, 71, 72, and 81 are 

consistent with SBA’s statutory mandate 

to help small businesses grow and 

create jobs and to review and adjust size 

standards every five years. 

This regulatory action promotes the 

Administration’s goals and objectives as 

well as meets the SBA’s statutory 

responsibility. One of SBA’s goals in 

support of promoting the 

Administration’s objectives is to help 

small businesses succeed through fair 

and equitable access to capital and 

credit, Federal Government contracts 

and purchases, and management and 

technical assistance. Reviewing and 

modifying size standards, when 

appropriate, ensures that intended 

beneficiaries are able to access Federal 

small business programs that are 

designed to assist them to become 

competitive and create jobs. 

2. What are the potential benefits and 

costs of this regulatory action? 

OMB directs agencies to establish an 

appropriate baseline to evaluate any 

benefits, costs, or transfer impacts of 

regulatory actions and alternative 

approaches considered. The baseline 

should represent the agency’s best 

assessment of what the world would 

look like absent the regulatory action. 

For a new regulatory action 

promulgating modifications to an 

existing regulation (such as modifying 

the existing size standards), a baseline 

assuming no change to the regulation 

(i.e., making no changes to current size 

standards) generally provides an 

appropriate benchmark for evaluating 

benefits, costs, or transfer impacts of 

regulatory changes and their 

alternatives. 

Changes to Size Standards 

Based on the results from the analyses 

of the latest industry and Federal 

contracting data, evaluation of the 

public comments on the proposed rule, 

as well as consideration of the impact of 

size standards changes on small 

businesses and significant adverse 

impacts of the COVID–19 emergency on 

small businesses and the overall 

economic activity, of the total of 145 

industries in Sectors 61, 62, 71, 72, and 

81 that have receipts-based size 

standards, SBA is adopting increases to 

size standards for 70 industries and 

maintaining current size standards for 

the remaining 75 industries (including 

exceptions). 

The Baseline 

For purposes of this regulatory action, 

the baseline represents maintaining the 

‘‘status quo,’’ i.e., making no changes to 

the current size standards. Using the 

number of small businesses and levels 

of benefits (such as set-aside contracts, 

SBA’s loans, disaster assistance, etc.) 

they receive under the current size 

standards as a baseline, one can 

examine the potential benefits, costs, 

and transfer impacts of changes to size 

standards on small businesses and on 

the overall economy. 

Based on the 2012 Economic Census 

(the latest available), of a total of about 

2,016,327 businesses in industries in 

Sectors 61, 62, 71, 72, and 81 for which 

SBA evaluated their current receiptsbased size standards, 98.0% are 

considered small under the current size 

standards. That percentage varies from 

95.9% in Sector 61 to 98.8% in Sector 

81. Based on the data from FPDS–NG for 

fiscal years 2018–2020, about 23,250 

unique firms in those industries with 

receipts-based size standards, received 

at least one Federal contract during that 

period, of which 76.6% were small 

under the current size standards. For 

these sectors, of about $19 billion in 

total average annual contract dollars 

awarded to businesses during that 

period, 27.9% went to small businesses. 

From the total small business contract 

dollars awarded during the period 

considered, 66.4% were awarded 

through various small business set-aside 

programs and 33.6% were awarded 

through non-set aside contracts. 

Based on the SBA’s internal data on 

its loan programs for fiscal years 2018– 

2020, small businesses in those 

industries received, on an annual basis, 

a total of 21,350 7(a) and 504 loans in 

that period, totaling about $12.3 billion, 

of which 82.3% was issued through the 

7(a) program and 17.7% was issued 

through the CDC/504 program. During 

fiscal years 2018–2020, small businesses 

in those industries also received 1,104 

loans through the SBA’s Economic 

Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, 

totaling about $53.3 million on an 

annual basis.2 Table 4, Baseline for All 

Industries, below, provides these 

baseline results by sector. 

Increases to Size Standards 

As stated above, of 145 receipts-based 

size standards in Sectors 61, 62, 71, 72, 

and 81 reviewed, based on the results 

from analyses of latest industry and 

Federal market data as well as impacts 

of size standards changes on small 

businesses and the consideration of 

comments to the proposed rule, SBA is 

adopting increases to size standards for 

70 industries. Below are descriptions of 

the benefits, costs, and transfer impacts 

of the increases to size standards 

adopted in this final rule. 

The results of regulatory impact 

analyses SBA provided in the November 

2020 proposed rule were based on the 

FPDS–NG and SBA loan data for fiscal 

years 2016–2018. In this final rule, SBA 

is updating the impact analysis results 

by using the FPDS–NG and SBA loan 

data for fiscal years 2018–2020. 

Accordingly, there can be some 

differences between the proposed rule 

and this final rule with respect to 

impacts of size standards changes on 

Federal contracts and SBA loans. 

TABLE 4—BASELINE FOR ALL INDUSTRIES

Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

Baseline All Industries (current size 

standards) ............................................. 18 39 25 15 48 145 

Total firms (2012 Economic Census) ...... 84,084 653,143 114,926 496,856 667,318 2,016,327 

Total small firms under current size 

standards (2012 Economic Census) .... 80,620 632,077 112,612 490,773 659,559 1,975,640 

Small firms as % of total firms ................. 95.9% 96.8% 98.0% 98.8% 98.8% 98.0% 


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Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

Total contract dollars ($ million) (FPDS– 

NG FY2018–2020) ............................... $3,624 $11,143 $240 $837 $3,270 $19,114 

Total small business contract dollars 

under current standards ($ million) 

(FPDS–NG FY2020–2018) .................. $1,510 $2,393 $170 $450 $815 $5,338. 

Small business dollars as % of total dollars (FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) ........... 41.7% 21.5% 71.0% 53.8% 24.9% 27.9% 

Total No. of unique firms getting contracts (FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) ........ 3,651 6,040 971 3,162 10,096 23,251 

Total No. of unique small firms getting 

small business contracts (FPDS–NG 

FY2018–2020) ...................................... 2,772 4,950 867 2,625 6,935 17,799 

Small business firms as % of total firms 75.9% 82.0% 89.3% 83.0% 68.7% 76.6% 

No. of 7(a) and 504/CDC loans (FY 

2018–2020) .......................................... 872 5,248 2,030 7,838 5,362 21,350 

Amount of 7(a) and 504 loans ($ million) 

(FY 2018–2020) ................................... $365 $3,117 $1,045 $5,328 $2,421 $12,276 

No. of EIDL loans (FY 2018–2020) * ....... 51 317 101 298 337 1,104 

Amount of EIDL loans ($million) (FY 

2018–2020) * ........................................ $2.2 $20.2 $4.7 $16.2 $10.0 $53.3 

* Excludes COVID–19 related EIDL loans due to their temporary nature. Effective January 1, 2022, SBA stopped accepting applications for 

new COVID EIDL loans or advances. 

Benefits of Increasing Size Standards 

The most significant benefit to 

businesses from increases to size 

standards is gaining eligibility for 

Federal small business assistance 

programs or retaining that eligibility for 

a longer period. These include SBA’s 

business loan programs, EIDL program, 

and Federal procurement programs 

intended for small businesses. Federal 

procurement programs provide targeted, 

set-aside opportunities for small 

businesses under SBA’s various 

business development and contracting 

programs. These include the 8(a)/ 

Business Development (BD) Program, 

the Small Disadvantaged Businesses 

(SDB) Program, the Historically 

Underutilized Business Zones 

(HUBZone) Program, the WomenOwned Small Businesses (WOSB) 

Program, the Economically 

Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small 

Businesses (EDWOSB) Program, and the 

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small 

Businesses (SDVOSB) Program. 

Besides set-aside contracting and 

financial assistance discussed above, 

small businesses also benefit through 

reduced fees, less paperwork, and fewer 

compliance requirements that are 

available to small businesses through 

the Federal Government programs. 

However, SBA has no data to estimate 

the number of small businesses 

receiving such benefits. 

Based on the 2012 Economic Census 

(latest available), SBA estimates that in 

70 industries in NAICS Sectors 61, 62, 

71, 72, and 81 for which it is increasing 

size standards, about 4,700 firms (see 

Table 5), not small under the current 

size standards, will become small under 

the adopted size standards increases 

and therefore become eligible for these 

programs. That represents about 0.4% of 

all firms classified as small under the 

current size standards in industries for 

which SBA is adopting increases to size 

standards. SBA’s revised size standards 

would result in an increase to the small 

business share of total receipts in those 

industries from 37.4% to 38.5%. 

With more businesses qualifying as 

small under the adopted increases to 

size standards, Federal agencies will 

have a larger pool of small businesses 

from which to draw for their small 

business procurement programs. 

Growing small businesses that are close 

to exceeding the current size standards 

will be able to retain their small 

business status for a longer period under 

the higher size standards, thereby 

enabling them to continue to benefit 

from the small business programs. 

Based on the FPDS–NG data for fiscal 

years 2018–2020, SBA estimates that 

about 238 firms that are active in 

Federal contracting in those industries 

would gain small business status under 

the adopted size standards. Based on the 

same data, SBA estimates that those 

newly qualified small businesses under 

the increases to 70 size standards could 

receive Federal small business contracts 

totaling about $60 million annually. 

That represents a 2.3% increase to small 

business dollars from the baseline. 

Table 5, Impacts of Increasing Size 

Standards, provides these results by 

NAICS sector. 

TABLE 5—IMPACTS OF INCREASING SIZE STANDARDS

Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

No. of industries with increases to size 

standards .............................................. 14 18 11 4 23 70 

Total current small businesses in industries with increases to size standards 

(2012 Economic Census) ..................... 53,788 350,287 47,893 243,299 428,410 1,123,676 

Additional firms qualifying as small under 

standards (2012 Economic Census) .... 708 1,464 265 599 1,671 4,708 

Percentage of additional firms qualifying 

as small relative to current small businesses in industries with increases to 

size standards ...................................... 1.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 


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Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

No. of current unique small firms getting 

small business contracts in industries 

with increases to size standards 

(FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) 1 ................ 2,627 2,944 306 689 2,906 9,302 

Additional small business firms getting 

small business status (FPDS–NG 

FY2018–2020) ...................................... 32 30 9 0 173 238 

% increase to small businesses relative 

to current unique small firms getting 

small business contracts in industries 

with increases to size standards 

(FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) 1 ................ 1.2% 1.0% 2.9% 0.0% 6.0% 2.6% 

Total small business contract dollars 

under current standards in industries 

with increases to size standards ($ million) (FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) .......... $1,278 $1,068 $26 $12 $269 $2,652 

Estimated additional small business dollars available to newly qualified small 

firms (Using avg dollars obligated to 

SBs) ($ million) (FPDS–NG FY 2018– 

2020) 1 .................................................. $25.9 $15.7 $2.2 $0.0 $16.3 $60.1 

% increase to small business dollars relative to total small business contract 

dollars under current standards in industries with increases to size standards ....................................................... 2.0% 1.5% 8.5% 0.1% 6.0% 2.3% 

Total no. of 7(a) and 504 loans to small 

business in industries with increases to 

size standards (FY 2018–2020) ........... 501 2,795 1,370 3,770 2,374 10,810 

Total amount of 7(a) and 504 loans to 

small businesses in industries with increases to size standards ($ million) 

(FY 2018–2020) ................................... $201 $1,840 $639 $1,580 $936 $5,196 

Estimated no. of 7(a) and 504 loans to 

newly qualified small firms ................... 7 12 8 10 10 47 

Estimated 7(a) and 504 loan amounts to 

newly qualified small firms ($ million) .. $2.8 $7.9 $3.7 $4.2 $3.9 $22.6 

% increase to 7(a) and 504 loan 

amounts relative to the total amount of 

7(a) and 504 loans in industries with 

increases to size standards ................. 1.4% 0.4% 0.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 

Total no. of EIDL loans to small businesses in industries with increases to 

size standards (FY 2018–2020) 3 ......... 36 178 38 157 171 580 

Total amount of EIDL loans to small 

businesses in industries with increases 

to size standards ($ million) (FY 2018– 

2020) 3 .................................................. $1.8 $11.0 $1.8 $9.5 $5.1 $29.0 

Estimated no. of EIDL loans to newly 

qualified small firms 3 ........................... 1 1 1 1 1 5 

Estimated EIDL loan amount to newly 

qualified small firms ($ million) 3 .......... $0.05 $0.06 $0.05 $0.06 $0.03 $0.25 

% increase to EIDL loan amount relative 

to the total amount of EIDL loans in industries with increases to size standards 3 .................................................... 2.8% 0.6% 2.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.9% 

1Total impact represents total unique number of firms impacted to avoid double counting as some firms are participating in more than one industry. 2Additional dollars are calculated multiplying average small business dollars obligated per DUNS times change in number of firms. Numbers of 

firms are calculated using the SBA current size standard, not the contracting officer’s size designation. 3Excludes COVID–19 related EIDL loans due to their temporary nature. Effective January 1, 2022, SBA stopped accepting applications for 

new COVID EIDL loans or advances. 

The added competition from more 

businesses qualifying as small can result 

in lower prices to the Federal 

Government for procurements set-aside 

or reserved for small businesses, but 

SBA cannot quantify this impact. Costs 

could be higher when full and open 

contracts are awarded to HUBZone 

businesses that receive price evaluation 

preferences. However, with agencies 

likely setting aside more contracts for 

small businesses in response to the 

availability of a larger pool of small 

businesses under the adopted increases 

to size standards, HUBZone firms might 

receive more set-aside contracts and 

fewer full and open contracts, thereby 

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agencies. SBA cannot estimate such 

costs savings as it is impossible to 

determine the number and value of 

unrestricted contracts to be otherwise 

awarded to HUBZone firms will be 

awarded as set-asides. However, such 

cost savings are likely to be relatively 

small as only a small fraction of full and 

open contracts are awarded to HUBZone 

businesses. 

As shown in Table 5, under SBA’s 

7(a) and 504 loan programs, based on 

the data for fiscal years 2018–2020, SBA 

estimates up to about 47 SBA 7(a) and 

504 loans totaling about $ 22.6 million 

could be made to these newly-qualified 

small businesses in those industries 

under the adopted size standards. That 

represents a 0.4% increase to the loan 

amount compared to the group baseline. 

Newly-qualified small businesses will 

also benefit from the SBA’s EIDL 

program. Because the benefits provided 

through this program are contingent on 

the occurrence and severity of a disaster 

in the future, SBA cannot make a 

meaningful estimate of this impact. 

However, based on the historical trends 

of the disaster loan program data, SBA 

estimates that, on an annual basis, the 

newly-defined small businesses under 

the adopted increases to size standards 

could receive five disaster loans, 

totaling about $0.3 million. 

Additionally, the newly-defined small 

businesses would also benefit through 

reduced fees, less paperwork, and fewer 

compliance requirements that are 

available to small businesses through 

the Federal Government, but SBA has 

no data to quantify this impact. 

Costs of Increasing Size Standards 

Besides having to register in the 

System for Award Management (SAM) 

to be eligible to participate in Federal 

contracting and update the SAM profile 

annually, small businesses incur no 

direct costs to gain or retain their small 

business status as a result of increases 

to size standards. All businesses willing 

to do business with the Federal 

Government must register in SAM and 

update their SAM profiles annually, 

regardless of their size status. SBA 

believes that a vast majority of 

businesses that are willing to participate 

in Federal contracting are already 

registered in SAM and update their 

SAM profiles annually. This final rule 

does not establish the new size 

standards for the very first time; rather 

it intends to modify the existing size 

standards in accordance with a statutory 

requirement, the latest data, and other 

relevant factors. 

To the extent that the newly qualified 

small businesses could become active in 

Federal procurement, the adopted 

increases to size standards may entail 

some additional administrative costs to 

the Federal Government as a result of 

more businesses qualifying as small for 

Federal small business programs. For 

example, there will be more firms 

seeking SBA’s loans, more firms eligible 

for enrollment in the Dynamic Small 

Business Search (DSBS) database or in 

certify.sba.gov, more firms seeking 

certification as 8(a)/BD or HUBZone 

firms or qualifying for small business, 

SDB, WOSB, EDWOSB, and SDVOSB 

status, and more firms applying for 

SBA’s 8(a)/BD mentor-prote ́ge ́ program. 

With an expanded pool of small 

businesses, it is likely that Federal 

agencies would set-aside more contracts 

for small businesses under the adopted 

increases to size standards. One may 

surmise that this might result in a 

higher number of small business size 

protests and additional processing costs 

to agencies. However, the SBA’s 

historical data on the number size 

protests processed shows that the 

number of size protests decreased 

following the increases to receipts-based 

size standards as part of the first fiveyear review of size standards. 

Specifically, on an annual basis, the 

number of size protests fell from about 

600 during fiscal years 2011–2013 

(review of most receipts-based size 

standards was completed by the end of 

fiscal year 2013), as compared to about 

500 during fiscal years 2018–2020 when 

size standards increases were in effect. 

That represents a 17% decline. 

Among those newly-defined small 

businesses seeking SBA’s loans, there 

could be some additional costs 

associated with verification of their 

small business status. However, small 

business lenders have an option of using 

the tangible net worth and net incomebased alternative size standard instead 

of using the industry-based size 

standards to establish eligibility for 

SBA’s loans. For these reasons, SBA 

believes that these added administrative 

costs will be minor because necessary 

mechanisms are already in place to 

handle these added requirements. 

Additionally, some Federal contracts 

may possibly have higher costs. With a 

greater number of businesses defined as 

small due to the adopted increases to 

size standards, Federal agencies may 

choose to set-aside more contracts for 

competition among small businesses 

only instead of using a full and open 

competition. The movement of contracts 

from unrestricted competition to small 

business set-aside contracts might result 

in competition among fewer total 

bidders, although there will be more 

small businesses eligible to submit 

offers under the adopted size standards. 

However, the additional costs associated 

with fewer bidders are expected to be 

minor because, by law, procurements 

may be set-aside for small businesses 

under the 8(a)/BD, SDB, HUBZone, 

WOSB, EDWOSB, or SDVOSB programs 

only if awards are expected to be made 

at fair and reasonable prices. 

Costs may also be higher when full 

and open contracts are awarded to 

HUBZone businesses that receive price 

evaluation preferences. However, with 

agencies likely setting aside more 

contracts for small businesses in 

response to the availability of a larger 

pool of small businesses under the 

adopted increases to size standards, 

HUBZone firms might end up getting 

fewer full and open contracts, thereby 

resulting in some cost savings to 

agencies. However, such cost savings 

are likely to be minimal as only a small 

fraction of unrestricted contracts are 

awarded to HUBZone businesses. 

Transfer Impacts of Increasing Size 

Standards 

The increases to 70 size standards that 

are adopted in this final rule may result 

in some redistribution of Federal 

contracts between the newly-qualified 

small businesses and large businesses 

and between the newly qualified small 

businesses and small businesses under 

the current standards. However, it 

would have no impact on the overall 

economic activity because total Federal 

contract dollars available for businesses 

to compete for will not change with 

changes to size standards. Although 

SBA cannot quantify with certainty the 

actual outcome of the gains and losses 

from the redistribution contracts among 

different groups of businesses, it can 

identify several probable impacts in 

qualitative terms. With the availability 

of a larger pool of small businesses 

under the adopted increases to size 

standards, some unrestricted Federal 

contracts that would otherwise be 

awarded to large businesses may be set 

aside for small businesses. As a result, 

large businesses may lose some Federal 

contracting opportunities. Similarly, 

some small businesses under the current 

size standards may obtain fewer setaside contracts due to the increased 

competition from larger businesses 

qualifying as small under the adopted 

increases to size standards. This impact 

may be offset by a greater number of 

procurements being set-aside for all 

small businesses. With larger businesses 

qualifying as small under the higher size 

standards, smaller small businesses 

could face some disadvantage in 

competing for set-aside contracts against 

their larger counterparts. However, SBA 

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3. What alternatives have been 

considered? 

Under OMB Circular A–4, SBA is 

required to consider regulatory 

alternatives to the adopted changes in 

this final rule. In this section, SBA 

describes and analyzes two such 

alternatives. Alternative Option One to 

the final rule, a more stringent 

alternative to the adopted change, 

would propose adopting size standards 

based solely on the analytical results. In 

other words, the size standards of 70 

industries for which the analytical 

results, as presented in Table 4 of the 

November 2020 proposed rule, suggest 

raising them would be raised. However, 

the size standards of 63 industries or 

subindustries for which the analytical 

results suggest lowering them would be 

lowered. For the 12 remaining 

industries or subindustries for which 

the analysis suggested no changes, size 

standards would be maintained at their 

current levels. Alternative Option Two 

would propose retaining size standards 

for all industries, given the uncertainty 

generated by the ongoing COVID–19 

pandemic. Below, SBA discusses the 

benefits, costs, and net impacts of each 

option. 

Alternative Option One: Adopting All 

Calculated Size Standards 

As discussed previously in the 

Alternatives Considered section of this 

final rule, Alternative Option One 

would cause a substantial number of 

currently small businesses to lose their 

small business status and hence to lose 

their access to Federal small business 

assistance, especially small business setaside contracts and SBA’s financial 

assistance in some cases. These 

consequences could be mitigated. For 

example, in response to the 2008 

Financial Crisis and economic 

conditions that followed, SBA adopted 

a general policy in the first five-year 

comprehensive size standards review to 

not lower any size standard (except to 

exclude one or more dominant firms) 

even when the analytical results 

suggested the size standard should be 

lowered. Currently, because of the 

economic challenges presented by the 

COVID–19 pandemic and the measures 

taken to protect public health, SBA has 

decided to adopt the same general 

policy of not lowering size standards in 

the ongoing second five-year 

comprehensive size standards review as 

well. 

The primary benefit of adopting 

Alternative Option One would include: 

(1) SBA’s procurement, management, 

technical and financial assistance 

resources would be targeted to the most 

appropriate beneficiaries of such 

programs according to the analytical 

results; (2) Adopting the size standards 

based on the analytical results would 

also promote consistency and 

predictability in SBA’s implementation 

of its authority to set or adjust size 

standards; and (3) Firms who would 

remain small would face less 

competition from larger small firms for 

the remaining set aside opportunities. 

Specifically, SBA sought public 

comment on the impact of adopting the 

size standards based on the analytical 

results. 

As explained in the Size Standards 

Methodology white paper, in addition to 

adopting all results of the primary 

analysis, SBA evaluates other relevant 

factors as needed such as the impact of 

the reductions or increases of size 

standards on the distribution of 

contracts awarded to small businesses 

and may adopt different results with the 

intention of mitigating potential 

negative impacts. 

We have discussed already the 

benefits, costs, and transfer impacts of 

increasing 70 size standards. Below we 

discuss the benefits, costs, and transfer 

impacts of decreasing 63 size standards 

based on the analytical results. 

Benefits of Decreasing Size Standards 

The most significant benefit to 

businesses from decreases to size 

standards when SBA’s analysis suggests 

such decreases is to ensure that size 

standards are more reflective of latest 

industry structure and Federal market 

trends and that Federal small business 

assistance is more effectively targeted to 

its intended beneficiaries. These include 

SBA’s business loan programs, EIDL 

program, and Federal procurement 

programs intended for small businesses. 

Federal procurement programs provide 

targeted, set-aside opportunities for 

small businesses under SBA’s business 

development programs, such as small 

business, SDB, 8(a)/BD, HUBZone, 

WOSB, EDWOSB, and SDVOSB 

programs. The adoption of calculated 

size standards diminishes the risk of 

awarding contracts to firms that are not 

small anymore. 

Decreasing size standards may reduce 

the administrative costs of the Federal 

Government, because the risk of 

awarding set-aside contracts to other 

than small businesses may diminish 

when the size standards reflect better 

the structure of the market. This may 

also diminish the risks of providing 

SBA’s loans to firms that do not need 

them the most. This may provide a 

better chance for smaller small firms to 

grow and benefit from the opportunities 

available on the Federal marketplace, 

and strengthen the small business 

industrial base for the Federal 

Government. 

Costs of Decreasing Size Standards 

Table 6, Impacts of Decreasing Size 

Standards Under Alternative Option 

One, below, shows the various impacts 

of lowering size standards in 63 

industries based solely on the analytical 

results. Based on the 2012 Economic 

Census, about 1,700 (0.3%) firms would 

lose their small business status under 

Alternative Option One. Similarly, 

based on the FPDS–NG data for fiscal 

years 2018–2020, 169 (2.4%) small 

businesses participating in Federal 

contracting would lose their small status 

and become ineligible to compete for 

set-aside contracts. With fewer 

businesses qualifying as small under the 

decreases to size standards, Federal 

agencies will have a smaller pool of 

small businesses from which to draw for 

their small business procurement 

programs. For example, during fiscal 

years 2018–2020, agencies awarded, on 

an annual basis, about $2.2 billion in 

small business contracts in those 63 

industries for which SBA considered 

decreasing size standards under 

Alternative Option One. Lowering size 

standards in 63 industries and 

subindustries would reduce Federal 

contract dollars awarded to small 

businesses by $110 million or about 

5.0% relative to the baseline level. 


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TABLE 6—IMPACTS OF

DECREASING

SIZE

STANDARDS

UNDER

ALTERNATIVE

OPTION

ONE

Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

No. of industries for which SBA considered decreasing size standards (2012 Economic Census) ............................................................................................................. 4 18 11 9 21 63 Total current small businesses in industries for which SBA considered decreasing 

size standards (2012 Economic Census) .................................................................... 26,832 257,179 39,737 243,637 129,388 696,774 

Estimated no. of firms losing small status for which SBA considered decreasing size 

standards (2012 Economic Census) ........................................................................... 21 828 259 399 211 1,718 

% of Firms losing small status relative to current small businesses in industries for 

which SBA considered decreasing size standards ..................................................... 0.08% 0.32% 0.65% 0.16% 0.16% 0.25% 

No. of current unique small firms getting small business contracts in industries for 

which SBA considered decreasing size standards (FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) 1 ....... 164 2,083 260 1,920 2,538 6,934 

Estimated number of small business firms that would have lost small business status 

in the decreases that SBA considered 1 ...................................................................... 1 65 1 25 78 169 

% decrease to small business firms relative to current unique small firms getting 

small business contracts in industries for which SBA considered decreasing size standards (FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) 1 ....................................................................... 0.6% 3.1% 0.4% 1.3% 3.1% 2.4% 

Total small business contract dollars under current size standards in industries for 

which SBA considered decreasing size standards ($ million) (FPDS–NG FY2018– 2020) ............................................................................................................................ $232 $1,279 $19 $437 $245 $2,212 

Estimated small business dollars not available to firms that would have lost business 

status (using avg. dollars obligated to SBs) ($ million) 1 (FPDS–NG FY 2018– 

2020) 2 .......................................................................................................................... $2.5 $88.2 $0.1 $4.8 $14.2 $109.8 

% decrease to small business dollars relative to total small business contract dollars 

under current size standards in industries for which SBA considered decreasing to size standards .............................................................................................................. 1.1% 6.9% 0.5% 1.1% 5.8% 5.0% 

Total no. of 7(a) and 504 loans to small businesses in industries for which SBA considered decreasing size standards (FY 2018–2020) ................................................... 371 2,066 507 4,035 1,687 8,666 Total amount of 7(a) and 504 loans to small businesses in industries for which SBA 

considered decreasing size standards ($ million) (FY 2018–2020) ............................ $163.4 $1,100.5 $342.3 $3,728.5 $605.4 $5,940.1 

Estimated no. of 7(a) and 504 loans not available to firms that would have lost small 

business status ............................................................................................................ 1 7 4 7 3 22 

Estimated 7(a) and 504 loan amounts not available to firms that would have small 

status ($ million) .......................................................................................................... $0.4 $3.7 $6.5 $6.5 $1.1 $18.2 

% decrease to 7(a)and 504 loan amounts relative to the total amount of 7(a) and 504 

loans in industries for which SBA considered decreasing size standards .................. 0.3% 0.3% 1.9% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 

Total no. of EIDL loans to small businesses in industries for which SBA considered 

decreasing size standards (FY 2018–2020) ............................................................... 15 124 42 130 102 413 

Total amount of EIDL loans to small businesses in industries for which SBA considered decreasing size standards ($ million) (FY 2018–2020) ...................................... $0.4 $8.2 $2.4 $6.1 $3.0 $20.2 Estimated no. of EIDL loans not available to firms that would have lost small business status ................................................................................................................... 1 1 1 1 1 5 Estimated EIDL loan amount not available to firms that would have lost small business status ($ million) .................................................................................................. $0.03 $0.07 $0.06 $0.05 $0.03 $0.23 % decrease to EIDL loan amount relative to the baseline ............................................. 6.7% 0.8% 2.4% 0.8% 1.0% 1.1% 

1Total impact represents total unique number of firms impacted to avoid double counting as some firms are participating in more than one industry. 2Additional dollars are calculated multiplying average small business dollars obligated per DUNS times change in number of firms. Numbers of firms are calculated using the SBA current 

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Because of the importance of these 

sectors for the Federal procurement, 

SBA could adopt mitigating measures to 

reduce the negative impact under the 

assumptions of Alternative Option One. 

SBA could adopt one or more of the 

following three actions: (1) Accept 

decreases in size standards as suggested 

by the analytical results; (2) Decrease 

size standards by a smaller amount than 

the calculated threshold; and (3) Retain 

the size standards at their current levels. 

Nevertheless, because Federal 

agencies are still required to meet the 

statutory small business contracting goal 

of 23%, actual impacts on the overall 

set-aside activity are likely to be smaller 

as agencies are likely to award more setaside contracts to small businesses that 

continue to remain small under the 

reduced size standards. 

With fewer businesses qualifying as 

small, the decreased competition can 

also result in higher prices to the 

Federal Government for procurements 

set aside or reserved for small 

businesses, but SBA cannot quantify 

this impact. Lowering size standards 

may cause current small business 

contract or option holders to lose their 

small business status, thereby making 

those dollars unavailable to count 

toward the agencies’ small business 

procurement goals. Additionally, 

impacted small businesses will be 

unable to compete for upcoming options 

as small businesses. 

As shown in Table 6, decreasing size 

standards would have a very minor 

impact on small businesses applying for 

SBA’s 7(a) and 504 loans because a vast 

majority of such loans are issued to 

businesses that are far below the 

reduced size standards. For example, 

based on the loan data for fiscal years 

2018–2020, SBA estimates that about 22 

of SBA’s 7(a) and 504 loans with total 

amounts of $18.2 million could not be 

made to those small businesses that 

would lose eligibility under the reduced 

size standards. That represents about 

0.3% decrease of the loan amounts 

compared to the baseline. However, the 

actual impact could be much less as 

businesses losing small business 

eligibility under the decreases to 

industry-based size standards could still 

qualify for SBA’s 7(a) and 504 loans 

under the tangible net worth and net 

income-based alternative size standard. 

Businesses losing small business 

status would also be impacted by way 

of access to loans through SBA’s EIDL 

program. However, SBA expects such 

impact to be minimal as only a small 

number of businesses in those 

industries received such loans during 

fiscal years 2018–2020. Because this 

program is contingent on the occurrence 

and severity of a disaster in the future, 

SBA cannot make a meaningful estimate 

of this impact. However, based on the 

disaster loan data for fiscal years 2018– 

2020, SBA estimates that, under 

Alternative Option One, about five of 

EIDL loans with total amounts of $0.2 

million could not be made to those 

small businesses that would lose 

eligibility under the reduced size 

standards. That represents about 1.1% 

decrease of the disaster loan amounts 

compared to the baseline (see Table 6). 

Small businesses becoming other than 

small if size standards were decreased 

might lose benefits through reduced 

fees, less paperwork, and fewer 

compliance requirements that are 

available to small businesses through 

the Federal Government programs, but 

SBA has no data to quantify this impact. 

However, if agencies determine that 

SBA’s size standards do not adequately 

serve such purposes, they can establish 

a different size standard with an 

approval from SBA if they are required 

to use SBA’s size standards for their 

programs 

Transfer Impacts of Decreasing Size 

Standards Under Alternative One 

If the size standards were decreased 

under Alternative Option One, it may 

result in a redistribution of Federal 

contracts between small businesses 

losing their small business status and 

large businesses and between small 

businesses losing their small business 

status and small businesses remaining 

small under the reduced size standards. 

However, as under the adopted 

increases to size standards, it would 

have no impact on the overall economic 

activity because the total Federal 

contract dollars available for businesses 

to compete for will stay the same. 

Although SBA cannot estimate with 

certainty the actual outcome of the gains 

and losses among different groups of 

businesses from contract redistribution 

resulting from decreases to size 

standards, it can identify several 

probable impacts. With a smaller pool of 

small businesses under the decreases to 

size standards, some set-aside Federal 

contracts to be otherwise awarded to 

small businesses may be competed on 

an unrestricted basis. As a result, large 

businesses may have more Federal 

contracting opportunities. However, 

because agencies are still required by 

law to award 23% of Federal dollars to 

small businesses, SBA expects the 

movement of set-aside contracts to 

unrestricted competition to be limited. 

For the same reason, small businesses 

under the reduced size standards are 

likely to obtain more set-aside contracts 

due to the reduced competition from 

fewer businesses qualifying as small 

under the decreases to size standards. 

With some larger small businesses 

losing small business status under the 

decreases to size standards, smaller 

small businesses would likely become 

more competitive in obtaining set-aside 

contracts. However, SBA cannot 

quantify these impacts. 

Net Impacts of Alternative Option One 

To estimate the net impacts of 

Alternative Option One, SBA followed 

the same methodology used to evaluate 

the impacts of increasing size standards 

(see Table 5). However, under 

Alternative Option One, SBA used the 

calculated size standards instead of the 

adopted increases to determine the 

impacts of changes to current 

thresholds. The impact of the increases 

of size standards were already shown in 

Table 5 above. Table 6 and Table 7, Net 

Impacts of Size Standards Changes 

under Alternative Option One, present 

the impact of the decreases of size 

standards and the net impact of 

adopting the calculated results under 

Alternative Option One, respectively. 

Based on the 2012 Economic Census, 

SBA estimates that in 133 industries in 

NAICS Sectors 61, 62, 71, 72, and 81 for 

which the analytical results suggested to 

change size standards, about 2,990 firms 

would become small under Alternative 

Option One. That represents about 0.2% 

of all firms classified as small under the 

current size standards in these 

industries. That is about 1,710 fewer 

firms qualifying as small under 

Alternative Option One, which 

represents a 36% reduction from about 

4,700 firms that would qualify as small 

(see Table 5) under the proposal being 

adopted in this final rule (i.e., increasing 

70 and retaining 75 size standards). 

TABLE 7—NET IMPACTS OF SIZE STANDARDS CHANGES UNDER ALTERNATIVE OPTION ONE

Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

No. of industries with changes to size 

standards .............................................. 17 36 22 13 44 132 


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Sector 61 Sector 62 Sector 71 Sector 72 Sector 81 Total 

Total no. of small business under the 

current size standards (2012 Economic 

Census) ................................................ 80,620 607,466 87,630 486,936 557,798 1,820,450 

Additional firms qualifying as small under 

size standards (2012 Economic Census) ....................................................... 687 636 6 200 1,460 2,990 

% of additional firms qualifying as small 

relative to total current small businesses .................................................. 0.85% 0.10% 0.01% 0.04% 0.26% 0.16% 

No. of current unique small firms getting 

small business contracts (FPDS–NG 

FY2018–2020) 1 .................................... 2,772 4,839 556 2,607 5,292 15,778 

Additional small firms getting small business status (FPDS–NG FY2018– 

2020) 1 .................................................. 31 ¥35 8 ¥25 83 52 

% increase to small firms relative to current unique small firms getting small 

business contracts (FPDS–NG 

FY2018–2020) ...................................... 1.1% ¥0.7% 1.4% ¥1.0% 1.6% 0.3% 

Total small business contract dollars 

under current size standards ($ million) 

(FPDS–NG FY2018–2020) .................. $1,510 $2,347 $44 $448 $514 $4,864 

Estimated small business dollars available to newly qualified small firms ($ 

million) (FPDS–NG FY 2018–2020) 2 .. $23.4 ¥$72.6 $2.1 ¥$4.8 $2.1 ¥$49.7 

% increase to dollars relative to total 

small business contract dollars under 

current size standards .......................... 1.6% ¥3.1% 4.7% ¥1.1% 0.4% ¥1.0% 

Total no. of 7(a) and 504 loans to small 

businesses (FY 2018–2020) ................ 872 5,248 2,030 7,838 5,362 21,350 

Total amount of 7(a) and 504 loans to 

small businesses (FY 2018–2020) ....... $365 $3,117 $1,045 $5,328 $2,421 $12,276 

Estimated no. of additional 7(a) and 504 

loans to newly qualified small firms ..... 6 5 4 3 7 25 

Estimated additional 7(a) and 504 loan 

amount to newly qualified small firms 

($ million) .............................................. $2.4 $4.2 ¥$2.7 ¥$2.3 $2.9 $4.4 

% increase to 7(a) and 504 loan amount 

relative to the total amount of 7(a) and 

504 loans to small businesses ............. 0.7% 0.1% ¥0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.04% 

Total no. of EIDL loans to small businesses (FY 2018–2020) 3 ..................... 51 317 101 298 337 1,104 

Total amount of EIDL loans to small 

businesses (FY 2018–2020) 3 .............. $2.2 $20.2 $4.7 $16.2 $10.0 $53.3 

Estimated no. of additional EIDL loans to 

newly qualified small firms 3 ................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Estimated additional EIDL loan amount 

to newly qualified small firms ($ million) 3 ..................................................... $0.02 ¥$0.01 ¥$0.01 $0.01 $0.00 $0.02 

% increase to EIDL loan amount relative 

to the total amount of EIDL loans to 

small businesses 3 ................................ 0.85% ¥0.02% ¥0.24% 0.08% 0.01% 0.03% 

1Total impact represents total unique number of firms impacted to avoid double counting as some firms are participating in more than one industry. 2Additional dollars are calculated multiplying average small business dollars obligated per DUNS times change in number of firms. Numbers of 

firms are calculated using the SBA current size standard, not the contracting officer’s size designation. 3Excludes COVID–19 related EIDL loans due to their temporary nature. Effective January 1, 2022, SBA stopped accepting applications for 

new COVID EIDL loans or advances. 

Based on the FPDS–NG data for fiscal 

years 2018–2020, in aggregate, SBA 

estimates that about 52 active firms in 

Federal contracting in those industries 

would gain small business status under 

Alternative Option One, most of them 

from Sector 81. This represents an 

increase of about 0.3% of the total 

number of small businesses 

participating in Federal contracting 

under the current size standards. Based 

on the same data, SBA estimates that 

about $49.7 million of Federal 

procurement dollars would not be 

available to firms losing their small 

status. This represents a decrease of 

1.0% from the baseline. A large amount 

of the losses is accounted for by Sector 

62 (see Table 7). 

Based on the SBA’s loan data for 

fiscal years 2018–2020, the total number 

of 7(a) and 504 loans will increase by 25 

loans, while the total loan amount will 

increase by about $4.4 million. This 

represents a 0.04% increase of the loan 

amounts relative to the group baseline. 

Firms’ participation under the SBA’s 

EIDL program will be affected as well. 

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this program is contingent on the 

occurrence and severity of a disaster in 

the future, SBA cannot make a 

meaningful estimate of this impact. 

However, based on the historical trends 

of the EIDL loan data, SBA estimates 

that the total number of disaster loans 

will be unchanged, while the total loan 

amount will increase by about $.02 

million. This represents a 0.03% 

increase of the loan amounts relative to 

the baseline. 

Alternative Option Two: Retaining All 

Current Size Standards 

Under this option, given the current 

COVID–19 pandemic, as discussed 

elsewhere, SBA considered retaining the 

current levels of all size standards even 

though the analytical results suggested 

changing them. Under this option, as 

the current situation develops, SBA will 

be able to assess new data available on 

economic indicators, federal 

procurement, and SBA loans as well. 

When compared to the baseline, there is 

a net impact of zero (i.e., zero benefit 

and zero cost) for retaining all size 

standards. However, this option would 

cause otherwise qualified small 

businesses to forgo various small 

business benefits (e.g., access to setaside contracts and capital) that become 

available to them under the option of 

increasing 70 and retaining 75 size 

standards adopted in this final rule. 

Moreover, retaining all size standards 

under this option would also be 

contrary to the SBA’s statutory mandate 

to review and adjust, every five years, 

all size standards to reflect current 

industry and Federal market conditions. 

Retaining all size standards without 

required periodic adjustments would 

increasingly exclude otherwise eligible 

small firms from small business 

benefits. 

Congressional Review Act 

Subtitle E of the Small Business 

Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 

1996 (codified at 5 U.S.C. 801–808), also 

known as the Congressional Review Act 

or CRA, generally provides that before a 

rule may take effect, the agency 

promulgating the rule must submit a 

rule report, which includes a copy of 

the rule, to each House of the Congress 

and to the Comptroller General of the 

United States. SBA will submit a report 

containing this rule and other required 

information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. 

House of Representatives, and the 

Comptroller General of the United 

States. A major rule under the CRA 

cannot take effect until 60 days after it 

is published in the Federal Register. 

OMB’s Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs has determined that 

this rule is not a ‘‘major rule’’ as defined 

by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). 

Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

According to the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. 601–612, 

when an agency issues a rulemaking, it 

must prepare a regulatory flexibility 

analysis to address the impact of the 

rule on small entities. This final rule, if 

adopted, may have a significant impact 

on a substantial number of small 

businesses in the industries covered by 

this final rule. As described above, this 

final rule may affect small businesses 

seeking Federal contracts, loans under 

SBA’s 7(a), 504, and EIDL programs, and 

assistance under other Federal small 

business programs. 

Immediately below, SBA sets forth a 

final regulatory flexibility analysis 

(FRFA) of this final rule addressing the 

following questions: (1) What is the 

need for and objective of the rule? (2) 

What is SBA’s description and estimate 

of the number of small businesses to 

which the rule will apply? (3) What are 

the projected reporting, record keeping, 

and other compliance requirements of 

the rule? (4) What are the relevant 

Federal rules that may duplicate, 

overlap, or conflict with the rule, and 

(5) What alternatives will allow SBA to 

accomplish its regulatory objectives 

while minimizing the impact on small 

businesses? 

1. What is the need for and objective 

of the rule? 

Changes in industry structure, 

technological changes, productivity 

growth, mergers and acquisitions, and 

updated industry definitions have 

changed the structure of many the 

industries covered by this final rule. 

Such changes can be enough to support 

revisions to current size standards for 

some industries. Based on the analysis 

of the latest data available, SBA believes 

that the size standards adopted in this 

final rule more appropriately reflect the 

size of businesses that need Federal 

assistance. The 2010 Jobs Act also 

requires SBA to review every five years 

all size standards and make necessary 

adjustments to reflect market 

conditions. 

2. What is SBA’s description and 

estimate of the number of small 

businesses to which the rule will apply? 

Based on data from the 2012 

Economic Census, SBA estimates that 

there are about 1,820,450 small firms 

covered by this rulemaking under 

industries with changes to size 

standards. Under this final rule, SBA 

estimates that an additional 2,990 

businesses will be defined as small. 

3. What are the projected reporting, 

record keeping and other compliance 

requirements of the rule? 

The size standard changes in this final 

rule impose no additional reporting or 

record keeping requirements on small 

businesses. However, qualifying for 

Federal procurement and a number of 

other programs requires that businesses 

register in SAM and self-certify that 

they are small at least once annually 

(FAR 52.204–13). For existing contracts, 

small business contractors are required 

to update their SAM registration as 

necessary, to ensure that they reflect the 

Contractor’s current status (FAR 52.219– 

28). Businesses are also required to 

verify that their SAM registration is 

current, accurate, and complete with the 

submission of an offer for every new 

contract (FAR 52.204–7 and 52.204–8). 

Therefore, businesses opting to 

participate in those programs must 

comply with SAM requirements. 

Changes in small business size 

standards do not result in additional 

costs associated with SAM registration 

or certification. Changing size standards 

alters the access to SBA’s programs that 

assist small businesses but does not 

impose a regulatory burden because 

they neither regulate nor control 

business behavior. 

4. What are the relevant Federal rules 

that may duplicate, overlap, or conflict 

with the rule? 

Under section 3(a)(2)(C) of the Small 

Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 632(a)(2)(c), 

Federal agencies must use SBA’s size 

standards to define a small business, 

unless specifically authorized by statute 

to do otherwise. In 1995, SBA published 

in the Federal Register a list of statutory 

and regulatory size standards that 

identified the application of SBA’s size 

standards as well as other size standards 

used by Federal agencies (60 FR 57988 

(November 24, 1995)). SBA is not aware 

of any Federal rule that would duplicate 

or conflict with establishing size 

standards. 

However, the Small Business Act and 

SBA’s regulations allow Federal 

agencies to develop different size 

standards if they believe that SBA’s size 

standards are not appropriate for their 

programs, with the approval of SBA’s 

Administrator (13 CFR 121.903). The 

Regulatory Flexibility Act authorizes an 

agency to establish an alternative small 

business definition, after consultation 

with the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. 

Small Business Administration (5 U.S.C. 

601(3)). 

5. What alternatives will allow SBA to 

accomplish its regulatory objectives 

while minimizing the impact on small 

entities? 


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By law, SBA is required to develop 

numerical size standards for 

establishing eligibility for Federal small 

business assistance programs. Other 

than varying size standards by industry 

and changing the size measures, no 

practical alternative exists to the 

systems of numerical size standards. 

However, SBA considered two 

alternatives to increasing 70 and 

maintaining 75 size standards at their 

current levels. The first alternative SBA 

considered was adopting size standards 

based solely on the analytical results. In 

other words, the size standards of 70 

industries for which the analytical 

results suggest raising size standards 

would be raised. However, the size 

standards of 63 industries for which the 

analytical results suggest lowering them 

would be lowered. This would cause a 

significant number of small businesses 

to lose their small business status, 

particularly in Sector 62 (see Table 6). 

Under the second alternative, in view of 

the COVID–19 pandemic, SBA 

considered retaining all size standards 

at the current levels, even though the 

analytical results may suggest increasing 

70 and decreasing 63 size standards. 

SBA believes retaining all size standards 

at their current levels would be more 

onerous for small businesses than the 

option of increasing 70 and retaining 75 

size standards. Postponing the adoption 

of the higher calculated size standards 

would be detrimental for otherwise 

small businesses in terms of access to 

various small business benefits, 

including access to set-aside contracts 

and capital through SBA contracting 

and financial programs, and exemptions 

from paperwork and other compliance 

requirements. 

Executive Order 13563 

Executive Order 13563 emphasizes 

the importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, reducing costs, 

harmonizing rules, and promoting 

flexibility. A description of the need for 

this regulatory action and benefits and 

costs associated with this action, 

including possible distributional 

impacts that relate to Executive Order 

13563, is included above in the 

Regulatory Impact Analysis under 

Executive Order 12866. Additionally, 

Executive Order 13563, section 6, calls 

for retrospective analyses of existing 

rules. 

The review of size standards in the 

industries covered by this final rule is 

consistent with section 6 of Executive 

Order 13563 and the 2010 Jobs Act, 

which requires SBA to review all size 

standards and make necessary 

adjustments to reflect market 

conditions. Specifically, the 2010 Jobs 

Act requires SBA to review at least onethird of all size standards during every 

18-month period from the date of its 

enactment (September 27, 2010) and to 

review all size standards not less 

frequently than once every five years, 

thereafter. SBA had already launched a 

comprehensive review of size standards 

in 2007. In accordance with the Jobs 

Act, SBA completed the comprehensive 

review of the small business size 

standard for each industry, except those 

for agricultural enterprises previously 

set by Congress, and made appropriate 

adjustments to size standards for a 

number of industries to reflect current 

Federal and industry market conditions. 

The first comprehensive review was 

completed in 2016. Prior to 2007, the 

last time SBA conducted a 

comprehensive review of all size 

standards was during the late 1970s and 

early 1980s. 

SBA issued a white paper entitled 

‘‘Size Standards Methodology’’ and 

published a notice in the April 11, 2019, 

edition of the Federal Register (84 FR 

14587) to advise the public that the 

document is available for public review. 

The ‘‘Size Standards Methodology’’ 

white paper explains how SBA 

establishes, reviews, and modifies its 

receipts-based and employee-based 

small business size standards. SBA 

considered all input, suggestions, 

recommendations, and relevant 

information obtained from industry 

groups, individual businesses, and 

Federal agencies in developing size 

standards for those industries covered 

by this final rule. SBA received a total 

of 12 comments to the proposed rule. In 

the Discussion of Comments section of 

this final rule, SBA summarizes and 

provides responses to the comments 

received on the proposed rule. 

Executive Order 12988 

This action meets applicable 

standards set forth in sections 3(a) and 

3(b)(2) of Executive Order 12988, Civil 

Justice Reform, to minimize litigation, 

eliminate ambiguity, and reduce 

burden. The action does not have 

retroactive or preemptive effect. 

Executive Order 13132 

For purposes of Executive Order 

13132, SBA has determined that this 

final rule will not have substantial, 

direct effects on the States, on the 

relationship between the National 

Government and the States, or on the 

distribution of power and 

responsibilities among the various 

levels of government. Therefore, SBA 

has determined that this final rule has 

no federalism implications warranting 

preparation of a federalism assessment. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

For the purpose of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. Ch. 35, SBA 

has determined that this final rule will 

not impose any new reporting or record 

keeping requirements. 

List of Subjects in 13 CFR Part 121 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Government procurement, 

Government property, Grant programs— 

business, Individuals with disabilities, 

Loan programs—business, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements, Small 

businesses. 

For the reasons set forth in the 

preamble, SBA amends 13 CFR part 121 

as follows: 

PART 121—SMALL BUSINESS SIZE 

REGULATIONS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 121 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 632, 634(b)(6), 

636(a)(36), 662, and 694(a)(9); Pub. L. 116– 

136, Section 1114. 

■ 2. In § 121.201, amend the table 

‘‘Small Business Size Standards by 

NAICS Industry’’ by revising the entries 

for ‘‘611110’’, ‘‘611210’’, ‘‘611310’’, 

‘‘611410’’, ‘‘611420’’, ‘‘611430’’, 

‘‘611511’’, ‘‘611513’’, ‘‘611519’’, 

‘‘611519 (Exception)’’, ‘‘611630’’, 

‘‘611691’’, ‘‘611692’’, ‘‘611699’’, 

‘‘611710’’, ‘‘621111’’, ‘‘621340’’, 

‘‘621399’’, ‘‘621410’’, ‘‘621491’’, 

‘‘621498’’, ‘‘621511’’, ‘‘621910’’, 

‘‘621999’’, ‘‘623312’’, ‘‘623990’’, 

‘‘624110’’, ‘‘624120’’, ‘‘624190’’, 

‘‘624210’’, ‘‘624230’’, ‘‘624310’’, 

‘‘624410’’, ‘‘711120’’, ‘‘711130’’, 

‘‘711219’’, ‘‘711320’’, ‘‘711410’’, 

‘‘712120’’, ‘‘712190’’, ‘‘713920’’, 

‘‘713930’’, ‘‘713940’’, ‘‘713950’’, 

‘‘721211’’, ‘‘721310’’, ‘‘722511’’, 

‘‘722515’’, ‘‘811122’’, ‘‘811191’’, 

‘‘811198’’, ‘‘811211’’, ‘‘811213’’, 

‘‘811310’’, ‘‘812111’’, ‘‘812112’’, 

‘‘812191’’, ‘‘812210’’, ‘‘812310’’, 

‘‘812320’’, ‘‘812921’’, ‘‘812990’’, 

‘‘813110’’, ‘‘813312’’, ‘‘813319’’, 

‘‘813410’’, ‘‘813910’’, ‘‘813920’’, 

‘‘813930’’, ‘‘813940’’, and ‘‘813990’’ to 

read as follows: 

§ 121.201 What size standards has SBA 

identified by North American Industry 

Classification System codes? 

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SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARDS BY NAICS INDUSTRY

NAICS codes NAICS U.S. industry title 

Size standards 

in millions of 

dollars 

Size standards 

in number of 

employees 

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Sector 61—Educational Services 

Subsector 611—Educational Services 

611110 ...................... Elementary and Secondary Schools ................................................................................ $17.5 ........................

611210 ...................... Junior Colleges ................................................................................................................. 28.5 ........................

611310 ...................... Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools ............................................................. 30.5 ........................

611410 ...................... Business and Secretarial Schools .................................................................................... 18.0 ........................

611420 ...................... Computer Training ............................................................................................................ 14.0 ........................

611430 ...................... Professional and Management Development Training .................................................... 13.0 ........................

611511 ...................... Cosmetology and Barber Schools .................................................................................... 11.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

611513 ...................... Apprenticeship Training .................................................................................................... 10.0 ........................

611519 ...................... Other Technical and Trade Schools ................................................................................ 18.5 ........................

611519 (Exception) ... Job Corps Centers 16 ........................................................................................................ 16 41.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

611630 ...................... Language Schools ............................................................................................................ 18.0 ........................

611691 ...................... Exam Preparation and Tutoring ....................................................................................... 11.0 ........................

611692 ...................... Automobile Driving Schools ............................................................................................. 9.0 ........................

611699 ...................... All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction ............................................................. 14.5 ........................

611710 ...................... Educational Support Services .......................................................................................... 21.0 ........................

Sector 62—Health Care and Social Assistance 

Subsector 621—Ambulatory Health Care Services 

621111 ...................... Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) ................................................ 14.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

621340 ...................... Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists and Audiologists .................. 11.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

621399 ...................... Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners .................................................. 9.0 ........................

621410 ...................... Family Planning Centers .................................................................................................. 16.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

621491 ...................... HMO Medical Centers ...................................................................................................... 39.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

621498 ...................... All Other Outpatient Care Centers ................................................................................... 22.5 ........................

621511 ...................... Medical Laboratories ........................................................................................................ 36.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

621910 ...................... Ambulance Services ......................................................................................................... 20.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

621999 ...................... All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services ............................................. 18.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

Subsector 623—Nursing and Residential Care Facilities 

*******

623312 ...................... Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly ........................................................................... 20.5 ........................

623990 ...................... Other Residential Care Facilities ...................................................................................... 14.0 ........................

Subsector 624—Social Assistance 

624110 ...................... Child and Youth Services ................................................................................................. 13.5 ........................

624120 ...................... Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities ..................................................... 13.0 ........................

624190 ...................... Other Individual and Family Services .............................................................................. 14.0 ........................

624210 ...................... Community Food Services ............................................................................................... 17.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

624230 ...................... Emergency and Other Relief Services ............................................................................. 36.5 ........................

624310 ...................... Vocational Rehabilitation Services ................................................................................... 13.0 ........................


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SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARDS BY NAICS INDUSTRY—Continued 

NAICS codes NAICS U.S. industry title 

Size standards 

in millions of 

dollars 

Size standards 

in number of 

employees 

624410 ...................... Child Day Care Services .................................................................................................. 8.5 ........................

Sector 71—Arts, Entertainment and Recreation 

Subsector 711—Performing Arts, Spectator Sports and Related Industries 

*******

711120 ...................... Dance Companies ............................................................................................................ 16.0 ........................

711130 ...................... Musical Groups and Artists .............................................................................................. 13.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

711219 ...................... Other Spectator Sports ..................................................................................................... 14.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

711320 ...................... Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports and Similar Events without Facilities ................... 19.5 ........................

711410 ...................... Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers and Other Public Figures ....... 15.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

Subsector 712—Museums, Historical Sites and Similar Institutions 

*******

712120 ...................... Historical Sites .................................................................................................................. 11.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

712190 ...................... Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions ..................................................................... 17.0 ........................

Subsector 713—Amusement, Gambling and Recreation Industries 

*******

713920 ...................... Skiing Facilities ................................................................................................................. 31.0 ........................

713930 ...................... Marinas ............................................................................................................................. 9.5 ........................

713940 ...................... Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers ........................................................................ 15.5 ........................

713950 ...................... Bowling Centers ............................................................................................................... 11.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

Sector 72—Accommodation and Food Services 

Subsector 721—Accommodation 

*******

721211 ...................... RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Campgrounds ....................................................... 9.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

721310 ...................... Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers’ Camps .............................. 12.5 ........................

Subsector 722—Food Services and Drinking Places 

*******

722511 ...................... Full-Service Restaurants .................................................................................................. 10.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

722515 ...................... Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars .......................................................................... 20.0 

Sector 81—Other Services 

Subsector 811—Repair and Maintenance 

*******

811122 ...................... Automotive Glass Replacement Shops ............................................................................ 15.5 ........................

811191 ...................... Automotive Oil Change and Lubrication Shops ............................................................... 9.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

811198 ...................... All Other Automotive Repair and Maintenance ................................................................ 9.0 ........................

811211 ...................... Consumer Electronics Repair and Maintenance .............................................................. 22.5 ........................


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SMALL BUSINESS SIZE STANDARDS BY NAICS INDUSTRY—Continued 

NAICS codes NAICS U.S. industry title 

Size standards 

in millions of 

dollars 

Size standards 

in number of 

employees 

*******

811213 ...................... Communication Equipment Repair and Maintenance ...................................................... 19.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

811310 ...................... Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance.11.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

Subsector 812—Personal and Laundry Services 

812111 ...................... Barber Shops .................................................................................................................... 8.5 ........................

812112 ...................... Beauty Salons .................................................................................................................. 8.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

812191 ...................... Diet and Weight Reducing Centers .................................................................................. 24.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

812210 ...................... Funeral Homes and Funeral Services ............................................................................. 11.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

812310 ...................... Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners ...................................................................... 11.5 ........................

812320 ...................... Dry cleaning and Laundry Services (except Coin-Operated) .......................................... 7.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

812921 ...................... Photofinishing Laboratories (except One-Hour) ............................................................... 26.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

812990 ...................... All Other Personal Services ............................................................................................. 13.0 ........................

Subsector 813—Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional and Similar Organizations 

813110 ...................... Religious Organizations .................................................................................................... 11.5 ........................

* * * * * * * 

813312 ...................... Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations ................................................... 17.0 ........................

813319 ...................... Other Social Advocacy Organizations .............................................................................. 16.0 ........................

813410 ...................... Civic and Social Organizations ........................................................................................ 8.5 ........................

813910 ...................... Business Associations ...................................................................................................... 13.5 ........................

813920 ...................... Professional Organizations ............................................................................................... 20.5 ........................

813930 ...................... Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations ............................................................... 14.5 ........................

813940 ...................... Political Organizations ...................................................................................................... 12.5 ........................

813990 ...................... Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations).12.0 ........................

* * * * * * * 

Footnotes 

* * * * * * * 16 NAICS code 611519—Job Corps Centers. For classifying a Federal procurement, the purpose of the solicitation must be for the management and operation of a U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center. The activities involved include admissions activities, life skills training, educational activities, comprehensive career preparation activities, career development activities, career transition activities, as well as the management and support functions and services needed to operate and maintain the facility. For SBA assistance as a small business concern, other 

than for Federal Government procurements, a concern must be primarily engaged in providing the services to operate and maintain Federal Job 

Corps Centers. 

*******

Isabella Casillas Guzman, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06608 Filed 3–30–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8026–03–P 


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