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OMB Control No: 3245-0403	ICR Reference No: 201910-3245-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No:
Agency/Subagency: SBA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: HUBZone Program Petition for Governor-Designated Covered Areas
Type of Information Collection: New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 10/16/2019
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 10/15/2019
	Date Received in OIRA: 10/09/2019
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	04/30/2020	6 Months From Approved
Responses	53	0	0
Time Burden (Hours)	265	0	0
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Section 1701(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, Pub. L. 115-91, authorizes State Governors to petition the SBA Administrator to designate specific covered areas as qualified HUBZone areas. SBA will evaluate the information provided by the Governors to determine whether the petition meets the criteria necessary for an area to be designated as a HUBZone

Emergency Justfication: This is to request emergency clearance of an information collection. This information collection is mandated by section 1701(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, Pub. L. 115-91 (2018 NDAA), which authorizes State Governors to petition the SBA Administrator to designate specific covered areas as qualified HUBZone areas. Pursuant to section 1701(j) of the 2018 NDAA, this authority is to become effective on January 1, 2020. Emergency clearance will allow SBA to implement the authority in accordance with this statutory deadline and begin accepting petitions for Governor-designated covered areas without delay. Accordingly, SBA requests that OMB approve the information collection immediately. SBA helps Americans start, build, and grow businesses. This collection is essential to the Agency’s mission because if SBA designates an area as a Governor-designated covered area, based on the information provided by the State Governor, additional small businesses may become eligible for certification as HUBZone small business concerns, which in turn will provide them with more contracting opportunities. These additional contracting opportunities create incentives for individuals to start small businesses and allow existing small businesses to grow. Emergency clearance is necessary because use of normal clearance procedures will delay the collection of these statutorily mandated petitions. In addition, use of normal clearance procedures is likely to cause the statutory deadline to begin receiving petitions (January 1, 2020) to be missed. Delaying SBA’s ability to accept these petitions would have a negative impact on small businesses because SBA would not be able to designate additional HUBZones under this authority, which would prevent some small businesses from being certified as HUBZone small business concerns and could cause others to lose their status as certified HUBZone small business concerns. SBA has taken all practicable steps to consult with interested agencies and members of the public to minimize the burden of this information collection. SBA intends to make available on its website a list of the areas within each State that meet the statutory definition of “covered area” according to the most recent Bureau of the Census data. This will minimize the burden on State governments by eliminating the need to gather this data and do the necessary analysis to determine which areas may meet the definition of “covered area.” Finally, pursuant to 5 C.F.R. § 1320.13(d), SBA also requests a waiver from the requirement to publish a 60-day notice in the Federal Register requesting comments on this information collection. SBA will publish the required notice as part of the standard submission process before the emergency approval expires.

Authorizing Statute(s): None

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
HUBZone Program Petition for Govenor-Designated Covered Areas

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	53	53
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	265	265
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: New Collection

Annual Cost to Federal Government:

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Yvonne Walters 202 619-1178 yvonne.walters@sba.gov

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