SBA increases size standards for NAICS Subsector 213, Support Activities for Mining

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) has increased the receipts based small business size standards for three of the four industries in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Subsector 213, Support Activities for Mining. As part of its ongoing comprehensive size standards review, SBA evaluated all receipts based size standards for industries in NAICS Sector 21 to determine whether they should be retained or revised. Within NAICS Sector 21, only NAICS Subsector 213 has receipts based size standards. The rest of the industries in that Sector have employee based size standards which SBA will review in the near future with other employee based size standards. More than 475 additional firms will be small under the new size standards and eligible for SBA's loan and Federal procurement programs. You may read/download SBA's final rule at www.regulations.gov (search on RIN 3245-AG44 or SBA-2012-0020). You may also review the originally proposed rule together with all of the comments that the public had submitted by going to www.regulations.gov. The proposed rule and the comments are included in the same docket. The revised size standards are effective July 22, 2013.