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Issued in Washington, DC, on August 8, 

2017. 

Steven Chalk, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket No. SBA–2017–0005] 

13 CFR Chapter I 

Reducing Unnecessary Regulatory 

Burden 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The Small Business 

Administration (SBA or Agency) is 

seeking input from the public on 

identifying which of the Agency’s 

regulations should be repealed, replaced 

or modified because they are obsolete, 

unnecessary, ineffective, or 

burdensome. This process of evaluating 

and identifying such regulations 

comports with the mandate in various 

Executive Orders to reduce the number 

and costs of the regulations that federal 

agencies impose on the public. 

DATES: Comments are requested on or 

before October 16, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket Number SBA– 

2017–0005, using any of the following 

methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Identify 

comments by ‘‘Docket Number SBA– 

2017–0005, Reducing Regulatory 

Burden RFI,’’ and follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail: Holly Turner, Regulatory 

Reform Officer, U.S. Small Business 

Administration, 409 Third Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SBA will post all comments on http:// 

www.regulations.gov. If you wish to 

submit confidential business 

information (CBI) as defined in the User 

Notice at http://www.regulations.gov, 

please submit the information to Holly 

Turner, 409 Third Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20416. Highlight the 

information that you consider to be CBI, 

and explain why you believe this 

information should be held confidential. 

SBA will review the information and 

make the final determination as to 

whether to publish the information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Holly Turner, (202) 205–6335, 409 

Third Street SW., Washington, DC 

20416; email address: IGA@sba.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. General Information 

The SBA’s mission is to maintain and 

strengthen the nation’s economy by 

enabling the establishment and viability 

of small businesses, and by assisting in 

economic recovery of communities after 

disasters. In carrying out this mission, 

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SBA has developed a regulatory policy 

that is implemented primarily through 

several core program offices: Office of 

Capital Access, Office of Disaster 

Assistance, Office of Entrepreneurial 

Development, Office of Government 

Contracting and Business Development, 

Office of International Trade, and Office 

of Investment and Innovation. SBA’s 

regulations are codified at title 13 Code 

of Federal Regulations, chapter I, and 

consist of parts 100 through 147. 

Federal agencies have an ongoing 

responsibility to ensure that the 

regulations they issue do not have an 

adverse economic impact on those 

affected by the rules. This responsibility 

has been reinforced over the years in 

various executive orders that have 

expressly directed agencies to review 

their regulations with an eye towards 

reducing the time and money the public 

must spend to comply with the 

regulatory requirements. The most 

recent of these executive orders are 

discussed below; together, they provide 

the framework for SBA’s efforts to 

reduce the regulatory burden on the 

participants in the agency’s programs. 

One of SBA’s primary objectives in 

carrying out these efforts is to continue 

to promote economic growth, 

innovation, and job creation in the small 

business sector, and to ensure that 

disaster survivors have the clear policy 

and procedural guidance they need to 

quickly obtain financial assistance to 

rebuild their lives. Anyone responding 

to SBA’s request for feedback should 

keep these objectives in mind. 

B. Executive Order 13771 

On January 30, 2017, President Trump 

signed Executive Order 13771, Reducing 

Regulation and Controlling Regulatory 

Costs, which, among other objectives, is 

intended to ensure that an agency’s 

regulatory costs are prudently managed 

and controlled so as to minimize the 

compliance burden imposed on the 

public. For every new regulation an 

agency proposes to implement, unless 

prohibited by law, this Executive Order 

requires the agency to (i) identify at 

least two existing regulations that the 

agency can cancel; and (ii) use the cost 

savings from the cancelled regulations 

to offset the cost of the new regulation. 

C. Executive Order 13777 

On February 24, 2017, the President 

issued Executive Order 13777, 

Enforcing the Regulatory Agenda, which 

further emphasized the goal of the 

Administration to alleviate the 

regulatory burdens placed on the public. 

Under Executive Order 13777, agencies 

must evaluate their existing regulations 

to determine which ones should be 

repealed, replaced, or modified. In 

doing so, agencies should focus on 

identifying regulations that, among 

other things: eliminate jobs or inhibit 

job creation; are outdated, unnecessary 

or ineffective; impose costs that exceed 

benefits; create a serious inconsistency 

or otherwise interfere with regulatory 

reform initiatives and policies; or are 

associated with Executive Orders or 

other Presidential directives that have 

been rescinded or substantially 

modified. 

D. Executive Order 13563 

Under Executive Order 13563, 

Improving Regulation and Regulatory 

Review (January 11, 2011), agencies 

conduct a retrospective review of their 

regulations to seek more affordable, less 

intrusive means to achieve policy goals, 

and to give careful consideration to the 

benefits and costs of their regulations. 

Executive Order 13563, similar to the 

requirements in Executive Order 13771 

and Executive Order 13777, also 

requires agencies to review existing 

rules to remove outdated regulations 

that stifle job creation and make the U.S. 

economy less competitive. 

E. Request for Information 

In order to fully implement the goal 

of these executive orders, SBA seeks 

help from the public in identifying 

those regulations that affected parties 

believe impose unnecessary burdens or 

costs that exceed their benefits, 

eliminate jobs or inhibit job creation, or 

are ineffective or outdated. Commenters 

should also address how SBA can best 

obtain and consider accurate, objective 

data about the costs and other burdens 

associated with the agency’s existing 

regulations. As you comment, SBA 

requests that you keep in mind the 

agency’s mission to strengthen 

America’s economy by providing tools 

to help start and grow businesses, create 

jobs, and help disaster survivors 

recover. 

F. List of Questions for Commenters 

The list of questions below is meant 

to assist in the formulation of public 

comments and is not intended to restrict 

the issues that may be addressed. SBA 

requests that commenters identify the 

specific regulation at issue and explain, 

in as much detail as possible, why the 

regulation should be streamlined, 

expanded, or repealed, including 

estimated cost savings and benefits to 

small businesses and other stakeholders. 

(1) Are there SBA regulations that 

have become unnecessary or ineffective 

and, if so, what are they? 

(2) Are there SBA regulations that can 

be repealed without impairing SBA’s 

regulatory programs and, if so, what are 

they? 

(3) Are there SBA regulations that 

have become outdated and, if so, how 

can they be modernized to better 

accomplish their regulatory objectives? 

(4) Are there SBA regulations that are 

still necessary, but which have not 

operated as well as expected such that 

a modified approach is justified, and 

what is that approach? 

(5) Are there SBA regulations or 

regulatory processes that are 

unnecessarily complicated or could be 

streamlined to achieve regulatory 

objectives more efficiently? 

(6) Are there any technological 

developments that can be leveraged to 

modify, streamline, or repeal any 

existing SBA regulatory requirements? 

(7) Are there any SBA regulations that 

are not tailored to impose the least 

burden on the public? 

(8) How can SBA best obtain and 

consider accurate, objective data about 

the costs, burdens, and benefits of 

existing SBA regulations? 

(9) Are there any specific suggestions 

of ways SBA can better achieve its 

regulatory objectives? 

SBA notes that this RFI is issued 

solely for information and planning 

purposes and that the Agency is not 

required to implement any of the 

suggestions it receives. In addition, 

although the Agency will not be able to 

respond to individual comments, the 

requested feedback is valued and will be 

given careful consideration. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 634(b)(6); E.O. 13771; 

E.O. 13777. 

Dated: August 4, 2017. 

Linda E. McMahon, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2017–0716; Product 

Identifier 2016–NM–165–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus 

Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: We propose to supersede 

Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2016–02– 

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