WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration has extended the deadline for public comments on key issues relating to its small business size standards. The rules are used by the SBA and other federal agencies to determine whether a business is small.

The SBA extended the deadline 60 days in response to requests from the public.

Last month, the SBA published, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking that didn’t propose any specific changes to the agency’s size standards. However, before SBA considers a different approach to restructuring its size standards, it is seeking comments on a number of issues that were raised by the public in response to the March 2004 proposed rule that was later withdrawn.

For more information, read the advanced notice at SBA’s Size Standards’ Web site: http://www.sba.gov/size/anprm.html. Comments for this advanced notice were originally due by Feb.1. The new deadline is April 3.

For more information, contact the SB Office at (202) 205-6618.