Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 15
|
U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Chapter 14A - Notes
Sec.
631. Declaration of policy.
(a) Aid, counsel, assistance, etc., to small
business concerns.
(b) Assistance to compete in international markets.
(c) Aid for agriculturally related industries;
financial assistance.
(d) Use of assistance programs to establish,
preserve, and strengthen small business
concerns.
(e) Assistance to victims of floods, etc., and
those displaced as result of federally aided
construction programs.
(f) Findings; purpose.
(g) Assistance to disaster victims under disaster
loan program.
(h) Assistance to women owned business.
(i) Prohibition on use of funds for individuals not
lawfully within United States.
(j) Contract bundling.
631a. Congressional declaration of small business economic
policy.
(a) Foster small business.
(b) Capital availability to small business.
631b. Reports to Congress; state of small business.
(a) Report on Small Business and Competition.
(b) Appendix to report.
(c) Supplementary reports.
(d) Referral to Congressional committees.
(e) Small business concerns owned by disadvantaged
individuals and by women.
632. Small-business concern.
(a) Criteria.
(b) "Agency" defined.
(c) Qualified employee trust; eligibility for loan
guarantee; "qualified employee trust" defined;
regulations for treatment of trust as
qualified employee trust.
(d) "Qualified Indian tribe" defined.
(e) "Public or private organization for the
handicapped" defined.
(f) "Handicapped individual" defined.
(g) "Energy measures" defined.
(h) "Credit elsewhere" defined.
(i) "Homeowners" defined.
(j) "Small agricultural cooperative" defined.
(k) "Disaster" defined.
(l) "Computer crime" defined.
(m) "Simplified acquisition threshold" defined.
(n) "Small business concern owned and controlled by
women" defined.
(o) Definitions of bundling of contract
requirements and related terms.
(p) Definitions relating to HUBZones.
(q) Definitions relating to veterans.
633. Small Business Administration.
(a) Creation; principal, branch, and regional
offices.
(b) Appointment of Administrator, Deputy
Administrator, and Associate Administrators;
duties of Administrator: preparation of data
base and publication of economic indices and
annual report; risk management database;
computer security and education program.
(c) Revolving funds; disaster loan fund; business
loan and investment fund; payments into funds;
appropriations; reports to Congress;
business-type budgets; borrowing authority:
terms and conditions of notes, interest rate,
public debt transactions; payments into
miscellaneous receipts; authorization of
appropriations for losses and interest
subsidies.
(d) Creation and composition of Loan Policy Board;
establishment of policies.
(e) Prohibition on provision of assistance.
(f) Certification of compliance with child support
obligations.
634. General powers.
(a) Seal; appointment and compensation of
personnel; use of other services and
facilities.
(b) Powers of Administrator.
(c) Procurement of experts and consultants;
compensation and expenses.
(d) Safety deposit box rentals.
(e) Undertaking or suspension of payment
obligation; period; extension of maturity;
repayment agreement; "required payments"
defined.
(f) Sale of guaranteed portion of loans by lender
or subsequent holder; limitations; secondary
market.
(g) Trust certificates; guarantee of timely
payments of principal and interest; full faith
and credit of United States; collection of
fees; subrogation.
(h) Central registration of loans and trust
certificates; contracts with agent;
disclosures by sellers of guaranteed portions
of loans; regulation of brokers and dealers;
electronic registration.
634a. Office of Advocacy within Small Business
Administration; Chief Counsel for Advocacy.
634b. Primary functions of Office of Advocacy.
634c. Additional duties of Office of Advocacy.
634d. Staff and powers of Office of Advocacy.
634e. Assistance of Government agencies.
634f. Reports.
634g. Authorization of appropriations.
635. Deposit of moneys; depositaries, custodians, and
fiscal agents; contributions to employees'
compensation funds.
636. Additional powers.
(a) Loans to small business concerns; allowable
purposes; qualified business; restrictions and
limitations.
(b) Disaster loans; authorization, scope, terms and
conditions, etc.
(c) Extension or renewal of loans; purchase of
participations; assumption of obligations;
disaster loans; interest rates; loan amounts.
(d) Funds for small business development centers
under section 648 of this title.
(e) [RESERVED].
(f) [RESERVED].
(g) Repealed.
(h) Loans to handicapped persons and organizations
for handicapped.
(i) Loans to small business concerns located in
urban or rural areas with high proportions of
unemployed or low-income individuals, or owned
by low-income individuals.
(j) Financial assistance for projects providing
technical or management assistance; areas of
high concentration of unemployment or
low-income; preferences; manner and method of
payment; accessible services; program
evaluations; establishment of development
program; coordination of policies.
(k) Functions relating to loans and financial
assistance for projects providing technical or
management assistance to individuals or
enterprises eligible for assistance as small
business concerns located in urban or rural
areas with high proportions of unemployed or
low-income individuals, or owned by low-income
individuals.
(l) [RESERVED].
(m) Microloan Program.
(n) Repayment deferred for active duty reservists.
636a. Repealed.
636b. Disaster loan interest rates.
636c. Age of applicant for disaster loans.
636d. Disaster aid to major sources of employment.
(a) Loans to disaster areas.
(b) Interest; deferred payments.
637. Additional powers.
(a) Procurement contracts; subcontracts to
disadvantaged small business concerns;
performance bonds; contract negotiations;
definitions; eligibility; determinations;
publication; recruitment; construction
subcontracts; annual estimates; Indian tribes.
(b) Procurement and property disposal powers;
determination of small-business concerns.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) Performance of contracts by small business
concerns; inclusion of required contract
clause; subcontracting plans; contract
eligibility; incentives; breach of contract;
review; report to Congress.
(e) Covered executive agency activities;
procurement notice; publication; time
limitations.
(f) Contents of notice.
(g) Exempted, etc., activities of executive agency.
(h) Award of contracts; procedures other than
competitive ones; exceptions.
(i) Availability; complete solicitation package;
fees.
(j) "Executive agency" defined.
(k) Notices of subcontracting opportunities.
(l) Management assistance for small businesses
affected by military operations.
(m) Procurement program for women-owned small
business concerns.
(n) Business grants and cooperative agreements.
637a. Repealed.
637b. Availability of information.
(a) Requests for information.
(b) Exempt contracts.
637c. Definitions.
638. Research and development.
(a) Declaration of policy.
(b) Assistance to small-business concerns.
(c) Consultation and cooperation with Government
agencies; studies and recommendations.
(d) Joint programs; approval of agreements;
withdrawal of approval; publication in Federal
Register.
(e) Definitions.
(f) Federal agency expenditures for SBIR program.
(g) Administration of small business innovation
research programs by Federal agencies required
to establish such programs.
(h) Establishment of goals for funding agreements
for research or research and development to
small business concerns by agencies having
budgets for research and development.
(i) Annual reporting.
(j) Small Business Administration policy directives
for the general conduct of small business
innovation research programs.
(k) Database.
(l) Reporting of awards made from single proposal,
to multiple award winners, or to critical
technology topics.
(m) Termination.
(n) Required expenditures for STTR by Federal
agencies.
(o) Federal agency STTR authority.
(p) STTR policy directive.
(q) Discretionary technical assistance.
(r) Third phase agreements.
(s) Outreach.
(t) Inclusion in strategic plans.
(u) Coordination of technology development
programs.
(v) Simplified reporting requirements.
(w) STTR model agreement for intellectual property
rights.
639. Reporting requirements and agency cooperation.
(a) Annual reports to President and Congressional
officers and committees.
(b) Report of expenditures in conduct of
activities; contents; information to
Congressional committees.
(c) Repealed.
(d) Annual report of Department of Defense.
(e) Retention of records.
(f) Consultation and cooperation with Government
departments and agencies.
(g) Annual report of employee conduct complaints
received or acted upon and investigations
undertaken by Administration.
(h) Report to Congress on secondary market
operations.
639a. Review of loan program; submission of estimated needs
for additional authorization.
640. Voluntary agreements among small-business concerns.
(a) Consultation with President.
(b) Exemption from certain laws; findings and
requests; filing and publication.
(c) Delegation of authority; consultation; approval
of requests.
(d) Inapplicability of section when request or
finding withdrawn.
641. Transfer to Administration of other functions, powers,
and duties.
642. Requirements for loans.
643. Fair charge for use of Government-owned property.
644. Awards or contracts.
(a) Determination.
(b) Placement of contracts by contracting
procurement agency.
(c) Programs for blind and handicapped individuals.
(d) Priority.
(e) Procurement strategies; contract bundling.
(f) Repealed.
(g) Goals for participation of small business
concerns in procurement contracts.
(h) Reports to Administration; submittal of
information to Congress.
(i) Small business set-asides.
(j) Small business reservation.
(k) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization; Director.
(l) Breakout procurement center representatives.
(m) Relationship to other procurement programs.
(n) Determination of labor surplus areas.
(o) Requirements for performance of contracts by
employees of small business concerns.
(p) Database, analysis, and annual report with
respect to bundled contracts.
645. Offenses and penalties.
(a) False statements; overvaluation of securities.
(b) Embezzlement, etc.
(c) Concealment, etc.
(d) Misrepresentation, etc.
(e) Representations under subsection (d) of this
section to be in writing.
(f) Misrepresentation of compliance with section
636(j)(10)(I).
646. Liens.
647. Duplication of activities of other Federal departments
or agencies.
(a) General prohibition; exception.
(b) Definitions.
648. Small business development center program
authorization.
(a) Grants, contracts and cooperative agreements
for establishment of small business
development centers and for small business
activities and purposes; role of
Administration; non-Federal additional amount;
amount of grant; eligibility.
(b) Area plan inconsistent with applicant's plan:
assistance unavailable 1981 through 1983; plan
of applicant: submittal to Administration,
action on plan, review by Administration,
assistance to out-of-State businesses.
(c) Problem-solving assistance; development center
extension services; staff and access
requirements; assistance services; changing
services for evolving needs; qualified small
business vendors; non-profit entities;
cooperation with regional and local offices,
etc.; information sharing system.
(d) Enhancing export potential of businesses within
State; State Office of International Trade.
(e) Laboratory assistance; reimbursement for
services.
(f) National Science Foundation; cooperation with
Administration and Small Business Development
Centers; center support.
(g) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
and regional technology transfer centers.
(h) Associate Administrator for Small Business
Development Centers.
(i) National Small Business Development Center
Advisory Board; establishment; membership;
term; Chairman; advisory and counseling
functions; meetings; compensation.
(j) Small business development center advisory
board; establishment; chairman; conferences
with director on policy.
(k) Program examination and certification.
(l) Contract authority.
(m) Prohibition on certain fees.
648a. Repealed.
649. Office of International Trade.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Development of distribution network; marketing
of programs and dissemination of information;
bilingual job applicants.
(c) Promotion of sales opportunities for goods and
services abroad.
(d) Access to export and pre-export financing
programs.
(e) Counseling small businesses; proceedings
related to trade laws; access to trade remedy
proceedings.
(f) Annual reports to Congress.
(g) Cooperative studies and reports to
Congressional committees on selected issues;
recommendations.
649a. Omitted.
649b. Grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for
international marketing programs.
(a) Limitations and restrictions.
(b) Eligibility.
(c) Advisory board establishment.
(d) Grant requirements.
(e) Program evaluation; reports.
(f) Recipients' duty to furnish information.
(g) "Applicant" defined.
(h) Contract authority.
649c. Authorization of appropriations.
649d. Central information clearinghouse.
650. El Nino-related ocean conditions; disaster loan
assistance to small business concerns in fishing
industry.
651. National small business tree planting program.
(a) Authorization of grants and contracts with
States.
(b) Establishment by Administrator.
(c) Utilization of small business concerns in
implementing program.
(d) Cooperation of Federal agencies; technical
services.
(e) Authorization of appropriations.
(f) Rules and regulations.
(g) Definitions.
(h) Annual report to President and Congress.
652. Central European Enterprise Development Commission.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Management and technical assistance to
designated Central European countries.
(c) Eligibility.
(d) Initial meeting and organization.
(e) Reimbursement for necessary expenses.
(f) Meetings; quorum.
(g) Authority; personnel.
(h) Initial and annual reports to Congress.
(i) Authorization of appropriations.
653. Office of Rural Affairs.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Appointment of director.
(c) Functions.
654. Paul D. Coverdell drug-free workplace program.
(a) Definitions.
(b) Establishment.
(c) Privacy protection for employees participating
in drug-free workplace program.
(d) Evaluation and coordination.
(e) Contract authority.
(f) Construction.
(g) Authorization.
655. Pilot Technology Access Program.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Criteria for selection of Centers.
(c) Matching requirement.
(d) Purpose of awards.
(e) Renewal of awards.
(f) Interim report.
(g) Final report.
(h) Authorization of appropriations.
(i) Funding from other sources; employment of
Centers by Federal agencies.
656. Women's business center program.
(a) Definitions.
(b) Authority.
(c) Conditions of participation.
(d) Contract authority.
(e) Submission of 5-year plan.
(f) Criteria.
(g) Office of Women's Business Ownership.
(h) Program examination.
(i) Contract authority.
(j) Management report.
(k) Authorization of appropriations.
(l) Sustainability pilot program.
657. Oversight of regulatory enforcement.
(a) Definitions.
(b) SBA Enforcement Ombudsman.
(c) Regional Small Business Regulatory Fairness
Boards.
(d) Powers of Boards.
657a. HUBZone program.
(a) In general.
(b) Eligible contracts.
(c) Enforcement; penalties.
(d) Authorization of appropriations.
657b. Veterans programs.
(a) Office of Veterans Business Development.
(b) Associate Administrator for Veterans Business
Development.
657c. National Veterans Business Development Corporation.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Purposes of the Corporation.
(c) Board of Directors.
(d) Corporate powers.
(e) Corporate funds.
(f) Network of information and assistance centers.
(g) Annual report.
(h) Assumption of duties of advisory committee.
(i) Use of mails.
(j) Professional Certification Advisory Board.
(k) Authorization of appropriations.
657d. Federal and State Technology Partnership Program.
(a) Definitions.
(b) Establishment of Program.
(c) Grants and cooperative agreements.
(d) Cooperation and coordination.
(e) Administrative requirements.
(f) Reports.
(g) Reviews by Inspector General.
(h) Program levels.
(i) Termination.
657e. Mentoring Networks.
(a) Findings.
(b) Authorization for Mentoring Networks.
(c) Criteria for Mentoring Networks.
(d) Mentoring database.
657f. Procurement program for small business concerns owned
and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
(a) Sole source contracts.
(b) Restricted competition.
(c) Relationship to other contracting preferences.
(d) Enforcement; penalties.
(e) Contracting officer.
-SECREF-
CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This chapter is referred to in sections 662, 687 of this title;
title 7 section 2000; title 10 section 2855; title 16 sections
472a, 535a, 539d; title 19 sections 2345, 2346; title 25 section
450j; title 38 section 3742; title 42 sections 7661f, 9607; title
49 sections 13709, 40110; title 50 App. section 2017l.
|
Ads by FindLaw