Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 203 / Friday, October 21, 2005 / Notices 61321 

Office of Personnel Management. 

Linda M. Springer, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–21051 Filed 10–20–05; 8:45 am] 

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Small Business Size Standards: 

Waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration 

(SBA). 

ACTION: Notice of termination of 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 provide the product of 

domestic small business manufacturers 

or processors on such contracts. 

DATES: This termination of waiver is 

effective November 7, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edith G. 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 

receipts 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 121.1202(c), 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 a 

six digit North American Industry 

Classification System (NAICS) and the 

four digit Product and Service Code 

required as a data entry field by the 

Federal Procurement Data System. 

The SBA received a request on May 

17, 2005 to waive the Nonamnfacturer 

Rule for Sporting and Athletic Goods 

Manufacturing. In response, SBA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register on July 28, 2005 of intent to 

terminate the waiver of the 

Nonmanufacturer Rule for Sporting and 

Athletic Goods Manufacturing. 

In response to this notice, 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: October 13, 2005. 

Karen C. Hontz, 

Associate Administrator for Government 

Contracting. 

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Small Business Size Standards: 

Waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Waiver of the 

Nonmanufacturer Rule for Commercial 

Laundry Equipment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA) is granting a 

waiver of the Nonmanufacturer Rule for 

Commercial Laundry Equipment. The 

basis for waivers is that no small 

business manufacturers are supplying 

these classes of products to the Federal 

government. The effect of a waiver 

would be to allow otherwise qualified 

regular dealers to supply the products of 

any domestic manufacturer on a Federal 

contract set aside for small businesses or 

awarded through the SBA’s 8(a) 

Business Development Program. 

DATES: This waiver is effective 

November 7, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edith Butler, Program Analyst, by 

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

(202) 205–7280; 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 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 121.1202(c), 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 

required as a data entry by the Federal 

Procurement Data System. 

The SBA received a request on July 

22, 2005 to waive the Nonmanufacturer 

Rule for Commercial Laundry 

Equipment. In response, on August 22, 

2005, SBA published in the Federal 

Register a notice of intent to waive the 

Nonmanufacturer Rule for Commercial 

Laundry Equipment. 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, no comments 

were received from interested parties. 

SBA is therefore granting the waiver of 

the Nonmanufacturer Rule for 

Commercial Laundry Equipment, 

NAICS 333312. 

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

Dated: October 13, 2005. 

Karen C. Hontz, 

Associate Administrator for Government 

Contracting. 

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