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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 213 / Monday, November 8, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
research, Marketing agreements, Soybeans and soybean products, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

For reasons set forth in the preamble, 7 CFR part 1220 is amended as follows:

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13 CFR Parts 124, 125, 126, and 127
RIN 3245AH27

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 63016311 and 7
U.S.C. 7401.

National Defense Authorization Act of 2020, Definition of Surviving Spouse for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses and Change to 8a Business Development Contracting Thresholds
2. In 1220.201, revise paragraph a to read as follows:

Membership of board.

a For the purpose of nominating and appointing producers to the Board, the United States shall be divided into 31
geographic units and the number of Board members from each unit, subject to paragraphs d and e of this section shall be as follows:

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

1. The authority citation for part 1220
continues to read as follows:

South Dakota
Ohio
North Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
Minnesota
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Mississippi
Michigan
Kentucky
Kansas
Arkansas
Virginia
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Maryland
Louisiana
Alabama
Texas
South Carolina
Oklahoma
New York
New Jersey
Georgia
Delaware
Unit:
Eastern Region Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico Western Region Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming

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Erin Morris, Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.

PART 1220SOYBEAN PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND CONSUMER
INFORMATION

1220.201

U.S. Small Business Administration.
ACTION: Direct final rule.
AGENCY:

This rule makes technical changes to regulations issued by the U.S. Small Business Administration SBA to conform those regulations to recent statutory changes. First, the rule incorporates a required change to SBAs ownership requirements for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
The rule adopts changes to the treatment of certain surviving spouses made by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020. In addition, the rule incorporates changes to the dollar thresholds for certain contracting actions authorized for the 8a Business Development BD program made by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020. Finally, the rule adjusts the competitive threshold dollar levels authorized for SBAs contracting programs to changes made to the Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR
due to inflation.
DATES: This rule is effective on February 7, 2022, without further action, unless significant adverse comment is received by December 8, 2021. If significant adverse comment is received, SBA will publish a timely withdrawal of the rule in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by RIN 3245AH27, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http
www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
For mail, paper, disk, or CDROM
submissions: Donna Fudge, U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Policy, Planning and Liaison, 409 Third Street SW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC
20416.
SUMMARY:

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Hand Delivery/Courier: Donna Fudge, U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Policy, Planning and Liaison, 409 Third Street SW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20416.
SBA will post all comments on www.regulations.gov. If you wish to submit confidential business information CBI as defined in the User Notice at www.regulations.gov, please submit the information to Donna Fudge, U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Policy, Planning and Liaison, 409 Third Street SW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20416, or send an email to donna.fudge@sba.gov. Highlight the information that you consider to be CBI
and explain why you believe SBA
should hold this information as confidential. SBA will review the information and make the final determination on whether it will publish the information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donna Fudge, Procurement Analyst, Office of Policy, Planning and Liaison, U.S. Small Business Administration, 409 Third Street SW, Washington, DC
20416; donna.fudge@sba.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 20, 2019, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 NDAA 2020, Public Law 11692, 133 Stat. 1198, was signed into law. Section 876 of NDAA 2020
amended section 3 of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. 632. This provision made changes to the treatment of surviving spouses with regard to the programs ownership requirements. The changes require that SBA update its regulations to reflect two new time periods. Specifically, the statute creates a ten-year time period to remain eligible in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability rated as 100 percent disabling or who dies as a result of a serviceconnected disability, and a three-year time period in the case of a surviving spouse of a veteran with a serviceconnected disability rated as less than 100 percent disabling who does not die as a result of a service-connected disability. This rule updates 13 CFR
125.12 to reflect these changes. SBA is changing the language in 125.12i1ii to match the new statutory language. SBA is adding the ten-year time frame in 125.12i2iii.
SBA is adding the three-year time frame in 125.12i2iv.
In addition, section 823 of NDAA
2020 changed the threshold for which a justification and approval is needed for Department of Defense DoD covered procurements. Section 811 of the NDAA
for Fiscal Year 2010, Public Law 111

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