SBA Wants Event Feedback on Its New Feedback Collection
Published Date: 10/26/2026
Notice
Summary
The Small Business Administration (SBA) wants your feedback on a new way to collect info at their events to better help small businesses. They’re asking for comments by December 28, 2026, to make sure this process is easy and useful. This change aims to save time and improve support without costing businesses extra money.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
SBA to collect targeted event registration data
If you attend an SBA outreach event, you may be asked at registration to provide targeted information such as business size, industry, NAICS codes, and current capabilities and needs. The SBA says this upfront collection “would significantly streamline event planning and execution” and may be used at all SBA outreach events to help the agency aid and assist small businesses.
Scale and time burden of SBA event data collection
The SBA estimates Total Estimated Responses of 30,000 and a Total Estimated Hour Burden of 5,000 for this proposed information collection. These are the agency's stated scale and time-burden figures for respondents to the clearance.
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