SBA issues proposed size standards for NAICS Sector 71, Arts, Entertainment and Recreation

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has proposed to increase the small business size standards for 17 industries in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Sector 71, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation. As part of its ongoing comprehensive review of all size standards, SBA has evaluated all size standards in NAICS Sector 71 to determine whether the existing size standards should be retained or revised. This proposed rule is one of a series of proposed rules that examines size standards of industries grouped by NAICS Sector. SBA issued a White Paper entitled "Size Standards Methodology" and published a notice in the October 21, 2009 issue of the Federal Register that the document is available on its website at www.sba.gov/size for public review and comments. The "Size Standards Methodology" White Paper explains how SBA establishes, reviews and modifies its receipts based and employee based small business size standards. We invite you to review the proposed rule and submit your comments. The proposed rule explains how to submit your comments to SBA. We recommend that you comment through the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov/. Follow the instructions there for submitting your comments. SBA will not accept comments submitted by email. You can read/download the proposed rule at Regulations.gov (RIN-3245-AG36); Document ID SBA-2012-0006). The deadline for submission of comments is September 17, 2012.