99 -- SBA proposes to increase size standards for Heating Oil Dealers and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Bottled Gas) Dealers industries.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has proposed to change the small business size standard for the Heating Oil Dealers industry (North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 454311)) from $11.5 million in average annual receipts to 50 employees, and the size standard for the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Bottled Gas) Dealers industry (NAICS code 454312) from $6.5 million in average annual receipts to 50 employees. Large and fluctuating increases in the prices of heating oil and propane over the past several years indicate that a more stable measure of firm size based on number of employees rather than receipts is needed for these two industries. SBA must receive comments to the proposed rule on or before November 30, 2007. To submit comments, please go to regulations.gov and use "SBA-2007-0008-0001" (no quotes) as your document ID search term and/or "SBA-2007-0008" (no quotes) as your docket ID search term to locate the proposed rule.