Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 21 / Tuesday, February 2, 2016 / Notices 5507 

Dated: January 21, 2016. 

James E. Rivera, 

Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01880 Filed 2–1–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Requirements Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: The Small Business 

Administration (SBA) is publishing this 

notice to comply with requirements of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

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

agencies to submit proposed reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements to 

OMB for review and approval, and to 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

notifying the public that the agency has 

made such a submission. This notice 

also allows an additional 30 days for 

public comments. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 3, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to 

the information collection by name and/ 

or OMB Control Number and should be 

sent to: Agency Clearance Officer, Curtis 

Rich, Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW., 5th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20416; and SBA Desk 

Officer, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Curtis Rich, Agency Clearance Officer, 

(202) 205–7030 curtis.rich@sba.gov. 

Copies: A copy of the Form OMB 83– 

1, supporting statement, and other 

documents submitted to OMB for 

review may be obtained from the 

Agency Clearance Officer. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Small 

Business Administration Surety Bond 

Guarantee Program was created to 

encourage surety companies to issue 

bonds for small contractors. The 

information collected on these forms 

from Small Business contractors or 

surety companies/agents is used to 

evaluate the eligibility of program 

application. One form is used by surety 

companies to request claims payments 

or report recoveries related to defaulted 

contractors. 

Solicitation of Public Comments 

Title: Surety Bond Guarantees 

Assistance. 

Description of Respondents: Surety 

Companies. 

Form Number: SBA Forms 990, 991, 

994, 994B, 994F, 994H. 

Estimated Annual Responses: 1,026. 

Estimated Annual Hour Burden: 

3,065. 

Curtis B. Rich, 

Management Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01886 Filed 2–1–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #14599 and #14600] 

Connecticut Disaster #CT–00037 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice 

SUMMARY: This is a notice of an 

Administrative declaration of a disaster 

for the State of Connecticut dated 01/21/ 

2016. 

Incident: Condominium Complex 

Fire. 

Incident Period: 12/31/2015. 

Effective Date: 01/21/2016. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 03/21/2016. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 10/21/2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to: U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Processing and 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that as a result of the 

Administrator’s disaster declaration, 

applications for disaster loans may be 

filed at the address listed above or other 

locally announced locations. 

The following areas have been 

determined to be adversely affected by 

the disaster: 

Primary Counties: Fairfield. 

Contiguous Counties: 

Connecticut: Litchfield, New Haven. 

New York: Dutchess, Putnam, 

Westchester. 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

For Physical Damage: 

Homeowners With Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... 3.625 

Homeowners Without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 1.813 

Businesses With Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... 6.000 

Percent 

Businesses Without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 4.000 

Non-Profit Organizations With 

Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.625 

Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 2.625 

For Economic Injury: 

Businesses & Small Agricultural 

Cooperatives Without Credit 

Available Elsewhere .............. 4.000 

Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 2.625 

The number assigned to this disaster 

for physical damage is 14599 5 and for 

economic injury is 14600 0. 

The States which received an EIDL 

Declaration # are Connecticut, New 

York. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

Dated: January 21, 2016. 

Maria Contreras-Sweet, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01881 Filed 2–1–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Region III—Charleston, WV; 

Regulatory Fairness Hearing 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA). 

ACTION: Notice of open Hearing of 

Region III Small Business Owners in 

Charleston, WV. 

SUMMARY: The SBA, Office of the 

National Ombudsman is issuing this 

notice to announce the location, date 

and time of the Charleston, WV 

Regulatory Fairness Hearing. This 

hearing is open to the public. 

DATES: The hearing will be held on 

Friday, February 19, 2016, from 9:30 

a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The hearing will be at the 

Charleston Area Alliance, 1116 Smith 

Street, Charleston, WV 25301. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

hearing is open to the public; however, 

advance notice of attendance is 

requested. Anyone wishing to attend 

and/or make a presentation at the 

Charleston, WV hearing must contact 

Yolanda Swift by February 15th in 

writing or by fax or email in order to be 

placed on the agenda. For further 

information, please contact Yolanda 

Swift, Deputy National Ombudsman, 

Office of the National Ombudsman, 409 

3rd Street SW., Suite 3316, Washington, 

DC 20416, by phone (202) 205–6918 and 


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fax (202) 481–6128. Additionally, if you 

need accommodations because of a 

disability, translation services, or 

require additional information, please 

contact Yolanda Swift as well. 

For more information on the Office of 

the National Ombudsman, see our Web 

site at www.sba.gov/ombudsman. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act (Pub. L. 104– 

121), Sec. 222, SBA announces the 

hearing for Small Business Owners, 

Business Organizations, Trade 

Associations, Chambers of Commerce 

and related organizations serving small 

business concerns to report experiences 

regarding unfair or excessive Federal 

regulatory enforcement issues affecting 

their members. 

Dated: January 20, 2016. 

Miguel J. L’Heureux, 

SBA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01878 Filed 2–1–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Small Business Investment 

Companies—Early Stage SBICs 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Call for early stage fund 

managers. 

SUMMARY: This call for proposals 

(‘‘Call’’) invites experienced early stage 

fund managers to submit the 

preliminary materials discussed in 

Section II below, in the form of the 

Small Business Investment Company 

(‘‘SBIC’’) Management Assessment 

Questionnaire (‘‘MAQ’’), for 

consideration by the Small Business 

Administration (‘‘SBA’’) to be licensed 

as Early Stage Small Business 

Investment Companies. Licensed Early 

Stage SBICs may receive SBAguaranteed debenture leverage of up to 

100 percent of their Regulatory Capital, 

up to a maximum of $50 million. 

However, Early Stage SBICs may, and 

most existing Early Stage SBICs do, 

request less than 100 percent of their 

Regulatory Capital. Importantly, Early 

Stage SBICs must invest at least 50% of 

their investment dollars in early stage 

small businesses. For the purposes of 

this initiative, an ‘‘early stage’’ business 

is one that has never achieved positive 

cash flow from operations in any fiscal 

year. By licensing and providing SBA 

guaranteed leverage to Early Stage 

SBICs, SBA seeks to expand 

entrepreneurs’ access to capital and 

encourage innovation as part of 

President Obama’s Start-Up America 

Initiative launched on January 31, 2011. 

More information on the Early Stage 

SBIC Initiative and the regulations 

governing these SBICs may be found at 

www.sba.gov/inv/earlystage. 

DATES: The following table provides the 

key milestones for the Early Stage SBIC 

Initiative. 

Milestones Dates/Times 

MAQ Submission Period/Initial Review 

Management Assessment Questionnaires (‘‘MAQs’’) may be submitted at any time between the 

following dates:.

5 p.m. EST—April 1, 2016–September 30, 

2016. 

Applications considered as they are received. 

Licensing 

Funds have 12 months from issuance of a Green Light to submit their license application .......... Applications considered as they are received. 

ADDRESSES: Visit www.sba.gov/inv/MAQ 

to download a copy of the Management 

Assessment Questionnaire (the 

‘‘MAQ’’). You must submit via express 

or next day delivery service (i) the 

relevant MAQ signature pages and (ii) 

the completed MAQ on a CD–ROM in 

Word and Excel format to the following: 

Scott Schaefer, Senior Investment 

Officer, Office of Investment and 

Innovation, U.S. Small Business 

Administration, 409 3rd St. SW., Suite 

#6300, Washington, DC 20416. 

SBA will not accept MAQs in .pdf 

format or MAQs delivered via regular 

mail (due to irradiation requirements), 

or hand delivery or courier service. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background Information 

SBA invites early stage fund managers 

to submit the preliminary materials, as 

discussed in Section II below, in the 

form of a Management Assessment 

Questionnaire (‘‘MAQ’’) for the 

formation and management of an Early 

Stage SBIC. In 2012, SBA introduced the 

Early Stage Initiative. Early Stage SBICs 

represent a new sub-category of SBICs 

that will focus on making investments 

in early stage small businesses. Go to 

www.sba.gov/inv/earlystage for 

information on the Early Stage Initiative 

and links to the Early Stage SBIC Final 

Rule (‘‘Final Rule’’). This initiative is 

part of President Obama’s ‘‘Start-Up 

America Initiative’’ to promote 

American innovation and job creation 

by encouraging private sector 

investment in job-creating startups and 

small firms, accelerating research, and 

addressing barriers to success for 

entrepreneurs and small businesses. In 

the Final Rule, SBA stated that it 

intended to allocate $200 million per 

year ($1 billion total) of leverage 

commitments to Early Stage SBICs over 

the five year period from Fiscal Year 

(‘‘FY’’) 2012 through FY 2016. The Early 

Stage initiative is scheduled to 

terminate at the end of FY 2016. 

However, in FY 2016 SBA intends to 

make certain modifications to the Early 

Stage regulations and make clear SBA’s 

intent to make the Early Stage program 

(including issuing new Early Stage 

licenses and leverage commitments) an 

ongoing part of the SBIC program. 

II. Management Assessment 

Questionnaire/License Application 

Materials 

The first required submission in the 

Early Stage Licensing process is SBA’s 

MAQ. The MAQ consists of two forms 

that cover qualitative and quantitative 

information on the management team, 

the proposed strategy for the SBIC, the 

principals’ investment track record, and 

the proposed fund structure and 

economics. The MAQ consists of SBA 

Form 2181 and Exhibits A–F of SBA 

Form 2182. 

Should SBA issue you a ‘‘Green Light 

letter,’’ you must submit the SBIC 

License Application, consisting of SBA 

Forms 2181, 2182 and 2183 (each of 

SBA Forms 2181 and 2182 updated to 

reflect any changes), for the final 

licensing phase. Exhibit O in SBA Form 

2183 includes the fund’s limited 

partnership agreement (‘‘LPA’’). 

Applicants should review this notice for 

special instructions associated with the 

LPA for Early Stage SBICs. 

III. Early Stage Licensing Process 

There are four stages in SBA’s Early 

Stage Licensing Process: (A) Call Period; 


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