53038 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 171 / Tuesday, September 6, 2005 / Notices 

Lafayette Federal Credit Union). If you 

have any questions regarding this 

meeting, please contact Cheryl Clark, 

Program Liaison, Office of Veterans 

Business Development at (202) 205–

6773. 

Matthew K. Becker, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–17582 Filed 9–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–M 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Small Business Size Standards: 

Waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: Notice to terminate waiver of 

the Nonmanufacturer Rule for Sporting 

and Athletic Goods Manufacturing. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA) is terminating the 

waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for 

Sporting and Athletic Goods 

Manufacturing based on our recent 

discovery of a small business 

manufacturer for this class of products. 

Terminating this waiver will require 

recipients of contracts set aside for 

small businesses, service-disabled 

veteran-owned small businesses, or 

SBA’s 8(a) Business Development 

Program to provide the products of 

small business manufacturers or 

processors on such contracts. 

DATES: This waiver is effective 

September 20, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edith Butler, Program Analyst, by 

telephone at (202) 619–0422; by FAX at 

(202) 481–1788; or by e-mail at 

edith.butler@sba.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

8(a)(17) of the Small Business Act, (Act) 

15 U.S.C. 637(a)(17), requires that 

recipients of Federal contracts set aside 

for small businesses, service-disabled 

veteran-owned small businesses, or 

SBA’s 8(a) Business Development 

Program provide the product of a small 

business manufacturer or processor, if 

the recipient is other than the actual 

manufacturer or processor of the 

product. This requirement is commonly 

referred to as the Nonmanufacturer 

Rule. 

The SBA regulations imposing this 

requirement are found at 13 CFR 

121.406(b). Section 8(a)(17)(b)(iv) of the 

Act authorizes SBA to waive the 

Nonmanufacturer Rule for any ‘‘class of 

products’’ for which there are no small 

business manufacturers or processors 

available to participate in the Federal 

market. 

As implemented in SBA’s regulations 

at 13 CFR 121.1204, in order to be 

considered available to participate in 

the Federal market for a class of 

products, a small business manufacturer 

must have submitted a proposal for a 

contract solicitation or received a 

contract from the Federal government 

within the last 24 months. The SBA 

defines ‘‘class of products’’ based on six 

digit coding systems. The first coding 

system is the Office of Management and 

Budget North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS). The 

second is the Product and Service Code 

established by the Federal Procurement 

Data System. 

The SBA received a request on July 

15, 2004 to waive the Nonmanufacturer 

Rule for Sporting and Athletic Goods 

Manufacturing. In response, on July 30, 

2004, SBA published in the Federal 

Register a notice of intent to the waiver 

of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for 

Sporting and Athletic Goods 

Manufacturing. SBA explained in the 

notice that it was soliciting comments 

and sources of small business 

manufacturers of this class of products. 

In response to this notice, comments 

were received from interested parties. 

SBA had determined from these sources 

that there were no small business 

manufacturers of this class of products, 

and therefore granted the waiver of the 

Nonmanufacturer Rule for Sporting and 

Athletic Goods Manufacturing, NAICS 

339920. 

Recently, SBA discovered the 

existence of a small business 

manufacturer of this class of products. 

Accordingly, based on the available 

information, SBA has determined that 

there is a small business manufacturer 

of this class of products, and is therefore 

terminating the class waiver of the 

Nonmanufacturer Rule for Sporting and 

Athletic Goods Manufacturing, NAICS 

339920. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 637(a)(17). 

Dated: August 25, 2005. 

Nancyellen Gentile, 

Acting Associate Administrator for 

Government Contracting. 

[FR Doc. 05–17585 Filed 9–2–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 5179] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Form DS–64, Statement 

Regarding a Lost or Stolen Passport, 

OMB No. 1405–0014 

ACTION: Notice of request for public 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State is 

seeking Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval for the 

information collection described below. 

The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 

days for public comment in the Federal 

Register preceding submission to OMB. 

We are conducting this process in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

• Title of Information Collection: 

Statement Regarding a Lost or Stolen 

Passport. 

• OMB Control Number: 1405–0014. 

• Type of Request: Revision of a 

Currently Approved Collection. 

• Originating Office: CA/PPT/FO/FC. 

• Form Number: DS–64. 

• Respondents: Individuals or 

Households. 

• Estimated Number of Respondents: 

105,000. 

• Estimated Number of Responses: 

105,000. 

• Average Hours per Response: 1⁄12

hour. (five minutes). 

• Total Estimated Burden: 8,800. 

• Frequency: On occasion. 

• Obligation To Respond: Voluntary. 

DATES: The Department will accept 

comments from the public up to 60 days 

from September 6, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: Cowlishawsc@state.gov. 

You must include the DS form number 

(if applicable), information collection 

title, and OMB control number in the 

subject line of your message. 

• Mail (paper, disk, or CD–ROM 

submissions): Susan Cowlishaw, 2100 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 3rd Floor, 

Washington, DC 20037. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information regarding the collection 

listed in this notice, including requests 

for copies of the proposed information 

collection and supporting documents, to 

Susan Cowlishaw, 2100 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 

20037, who may be reached on (202) 

261–8957, or at Cowlishawsc@state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are 

soliciting public comments to permit 

the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for