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By the Commission.
Jill M. Peterson,
Assistant Secretary.
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U.S. Small Business
Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This is a notice of an
Administrative declaration of a disaster
for the State of New York dated 08/02/
2013.
Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding.
Incident Period: 06/26/2013 through
07/05/2013.
Effective Date: 08/02/2013.
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For Economic Injury:
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Available Elsewhere ..............
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
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2.875
The number assigned to this disaster
for physical damage is 13689 6 and for
economic injury is 13690 0.
The State which received an EIDL
Declaration # is New York.
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For Physical Damage:
Non-Profit Organizations With
Credit Available Elsewhere ...
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
For Economic Injury:
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
2.875
2.875
2.875
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Numbers 59002 and 59008)
The number assigned to this disaster
for physical damage is 13681B and for
economic injury is 13682B.
Dated: August 2, 2013.
Karen G. Mills,
Administrator.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
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Joseph P. Loddo,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster
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AGENCY:
This is a Notice of the
Presidential declaration of a major
disaster for Public Assistance Only for
the State of West Virginia (FEMA–4132–
DR), dated 07/26/2013.
Incident: Severe Storms and Flooding.
Incident Period: 06/13/2013.
Effective Date: 07/26/2013.
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Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan
Application Deadline Date: 04/28/2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan
applications to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and
Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance,
U.S. Small Business Administration,
409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050,
Washington, DC 20416.
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President’s major disaster declaration on
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organizations that provide essential
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6.000 disaster loan applications at the address
listed above or other locally announced
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Small Business Innovation Research
and Small Business Technology
Transfer Programs Commercialization
Benchmark
Small Business Administration.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Small Business
Administration (SBA) is publishing the
Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) and Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) program
Commercialization Benchmark for the
11 participating agencies for public
comment. This benchmark establishes
the commercialization results a Small
Business Concern (SBC) that has been
awarded multiple prior Phase II awards
is required to achieve from work it
performed under its prior Phase II
awards in order to be eligible to receive
a new Phase I award. This requirement
is described in Section 4(a) of the SBIR
Policy Directive and the STTR Policy
Directive which implements section
5165 of the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization
Act of 2011, Public Law 112–81, 125Stat. 1298.
DATES: Effective Date: October 7, 2013
and when published on www.sbir.gov.
Comment Date: Comments to this
notice must be received on or before
September 9, 2013.
SUMMARY:
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You may submit comments,
identified by Docket Number 2013–0008
by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Edsel
Brown, Jr., Assistant Director, Office of
Innovation, Small Business
Administration, 409 Third Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20416.
SBA will post all comments to this
notice without change on
www.regulations.gov. If you wish to
submit confidential business
information (CBI) as defined in the User
Notice at www.regulations.gov, you
must submit such information to Edsel
Brown, Jr., Assistant Director, Office of
Innovation, Small Business
Administration, 409 Third Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20416; or send an email
to Technology@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 whether to publish it.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Edsel Brown, Jr., Assistant Director,
Office of Innovation, Small Business
Administration, 409 Third Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20416; telephone (202)
205–6450; email (Technology@sba.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August
6, 2012, SBA published the SBIR and
STTR Policy Directives at 77 FR 46806
and 77 FR 46855 respectively. Section
4(a)(3) of these Policy Directives
requires each agency to establish an
SBA-approved Commercialization Rate
Benchmark for firms that have been
awarded multiple prior Phase II awards.
The benchmark establishes the level of
commercialization results an SBC must
have received from work it performed
under prior Phase II awards in order to
be eligible for a new Phase I award.
The Commercialization Rate
benchmark is the second of two
requirements designed to ensure that
SBCs that have previously won multiple
Phase II awards demonstrate a
minimum level of progress towards
commercialization of their SBIR/STTRfunded research. The first requirement
was described in the Transition Rate
Benchmark notice published in the
Federal Register on October 16, 2012 at
77 FR 63410. The Transition Rate
benchmark sets the minimum ratio of
Phase II to Phase I awards that must be
met by firms that have been awarded
over 20 Phase I awards over the past 5
years (excluding the most recently
completed fiscal year) in order to be
eligible for a Phase I award. The
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Commercialization Rate benchmark
establishes the level of Phase III
commercialization results an SBA must
have achieved from work it performed
under prior Phase II awards.
The Commercialization Benchmark
requirement will apply only to firms
that have received more than 15 Phase
II awards during the last 10 fiscal years,
excluding the two most recently
completed fiscal years.
To implement the Commercialization
Benchmark, the eleven SBIR/STTRparticipating agencies and the SBA have
identified a measure of
commercialization results that will be
applied across all agencies. The SBA
will use data it collects from awardees
in its Company Registry on the SBIR.gov
Web site to identify those companies
that do not meet the required level of
commercialization for their past Phase II
work. To be consistent with the process
used for the Transition to Phase II
Benchmark requirement, and provided
that the necessary data systems are
available, SBA will generate, on June 1
of each year, a list of companies that fail
to meet the Commercialization
Benchmark rate. These companies will
be ineligible to receive a Phase I award
for a period of one year from that date.
This list will be made available to
officials at the participating agencies. It
will not be available to the public. The
firms on the list will be notified directly
and will be able to view their status on
the Company Registry at SBIR.gov. As
the SBIR/STTR program data system
develops, SBA may modify the date on
which SBA identifies the firms that do
not meet the benchmark requirements to
earlier in the year.
The purpose of the Commercialization
Benchmark is to measure an SBC’s
progress from Phase II to Phase III.
Phase III is defined in Section 4(c)(3) of
the Policy Directives as ‘‘work that
derives from, extends, or completes an
effort made under prior SBIR funding
agreements, but is funded by sources
other than the SBIR Program.’’
For the purposes of the
Commercialization Benchmark, Phase
III commercialization of a company’s
past Phase II work will be measured
using both monetary and non-monetary
results. The following data will be used
for the benchmark:
• Total sales or revenues that
resulted, at least in part, from work
performed under Phase II awards
received in the 10-year period.
• Total dollars invested to continue
the work and move it towards
commercial application.
• The number of patents that
resulted, at least in part, from work
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performed under Phase II awards
received in the 10-year period.
The Commercialization Benchmark
requirement will be expressed as
follows: Each company that has won 16
or more Phase II awards during the past
10 years, excluding the most recently
completed two fiscal years, must have
received an average of at least $100,000
of sales and/or investments per Phase II
award received; or have received a
number of patents equal to or greater
than 15% of the number of Phase II
awards received during the period. For
example, if a company won 18 Phase II
awards during fiscal years 2007 through
2011, it would be required to meet the
commercialization benchmark
calculated on June 1st 2014 because it
had received more than 16 Phase II
awards in the 5 year time period. On
June 1st 2014, the company shows,
through its reporting on these 18
awards, that it has achieved $1.7 million
in sales and/or additional investment
and 3 patents resulting directly from the
work done under these awards. The
sales and investment amount is not
sufficient to meet the benchmark of
$100,000 per award, however, with 3
patents the company exceeds the patent
requirement of 2.7 (15% of 18 awards)
and therefore meets the benchmark
requirement.
As the data system for the SBIR/STTR
programs develops and is able to collect
additional data for measuring
commercialization results, the agencies
and SBA may refine the
Commercialization Benchmark to
include other measures and/or adjust
the required performance levels.
SBA has reviewed and approved this
benchmark. Section 5165 of the SBIR/
STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011
requires SBA to publish, at least 60 days
before becoming effective, the system
and performance standard to be used,
and the approval by SBA. Therefore,
SBA will review all comments received
in response to this notice and issue the
final commercialization benchmark
requirement within 60 days of the date
this notice is published. That notice will
be made available at www.sbir.gov.
For greater detail on the
Commercialization Rate benchmark
requirement, see Section 4(a)(3) of the
SBIR Policy Directive (77 FR 46806) and
the STTR Policy Directive (77 FR
46855).
Pravina Raghavan,
Deputy Associate Administrator for
Investments and Innovation.
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Docket Number: 2013-0008]
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology
Transfer Programs Commercialization Benchmark
AGENCY: Small Business Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Small Business Administration (SBA) is publishing the
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) program Commercialization Benchmark for the 11
participating agencies for public comment. This benchmark establishes
the commercialization results a Small Business Concern (SBC) that has
been awarded multiple prior Phase II awards is required to achieve from
work it performed under its prior Phase II awards in order to be
eligible to receive a new Phase I award. This requirement is described
in Section 4(a) of the SBIR Policy Directive and the STTR Policy
Directive which implements section 5165 of the SBIR/STTR
Reauthorization Act of 2011, Public Law 112-81, 125-Stat. 1298.
DATES: Effective Date: October 7, 2013 and when published on
www.sbir.gov.
Comment Date: Comments to this notice must be received on or before
September 9, 2013.
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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket Number 2013-
0008 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Edsel Brown, Jr., Assistant
Director, Office of Innovation, Small Business Administration, 409
Third Street SW., Washington, DC 20416.
SBA will post all comments to this notice without change on
www.regulations.gov. If you wish to submit confidential business
information (CBI) as defined in the User Notice at www.regulations.gov,
you must submit such information to Edsel Brown, Jr., Assistant
Director, Office of Innovation, Small Business Administration, 409
Third Street SW., Washington, DC 20416; or send an email to
Technology@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 whether to publish it.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edsel Brown, Jr., Assistant Director,
Office of Innovation, Small Business Administration, 409 Third Street
SW., Washington, DC 20416; telephone (202) 205-6450; email
(Technology@sba.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 6, 2012, SBA published the SBIR
and STTR Policy Directives at 77 FR 46806 and 77 FR 46855 respectively.
Section 4(a)(3) of these Policy Directives requires each agency to
establish an SBA-approved Commercialization Rate Benchmark for firms
that have been awarded multiple prior Phase II awards. The benchmark
establishes the level of commercialization results an SBC must have
received from work it performed under prior Phase II awards in order to
be eligible for a new Phase I award.
The Commercialization Rate benchmark is the second of two
requirements designed to ensure that SBCs that have previously won
multiple Phase II awards demonstrate a minimum level of progress
towards commercialization of their SBIR/STTR-funded research. The first
requirement was described in the Transition Rate Benchmark notice
published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2012 at 77 FR 63410.
The Transition Rate benchmark sets the minimum ratio of Phase II to
Phase I awards that must be met by firms that have been awarded over 20
Phase I awards over the past 5 years (excluding the most recently
completed fiscal year) in order to be eligible for a Phase I award. The
Commercialization Rate benchmark establishes the level of Phase III
commercialization results an SBA must have achieved from work it
performed under prior Phase II awards.
The Commercialization Benchmark requirement will apply only to
firms that have received more than 15 Phase II awards during the last
10 fiscal years, excluding the two most recently completed fiscal
years.
To implement the Commercialization Benchmark, the eleven SBIR/STTR-
participating agencies and the SBA have identified a measure of
commercialization results that will be applied across all agencies. The
SBA will use data it collects from awardees in its Company Registry on
the SBIR.gov Web site to identify those companies that do not meet the
required level of commercialization for their past Phase II work. To be
consistent with the process used for the Transition to Phase II
Benchmark requirement, and provided that the necessary data systems are
available, SBA will generate, on June 1 of each year, a list of
companies that fail to meet the Commercialization Benchmark rate. These
companies will be ineligible to receive a Phase I award for a period of
one year from that date. This list will be made available to officials
at the participating agencies. It will not be available to the public.
The firms on the list will be notified directly and will be able to
view their status on the Company Registry at SBIR.gov. As the SBIR/STTR
program data system develops, SBA may modify the date on which SBA
identifies the firms that do not meet the benchmark requirements to
earlier in the year.
The purpose of the Commercialization Benchmark is to measure an
SBC's progress from Phase II to Phase III. Phase III is defined in
Section 4(c)(3) of the Policy Directives as ``work that derives from,
extends, or completes an effort made under prior SBIR funding
agreements, but is funded by sources other than the SBIR Program.''
For the purposes of the Commercialization Benchmark, Phase III
commercialization of a company's past Phase II work will be measured
using both monetary and non-monetary results. The following data will
be used for the benchmark:
Total sales or revenues that resulted, at least in part,
from work performed under Phase II awards received in the 10-year
period.
Total dollars invested to continue the work and move it
towards commercial application.
The number of patents that resulted, at least in part,
from work performed under Phase II awards received in the 10-year
period.
The Commercialization Benchmark requirement will be expressed as
follows: Each company that has won 16 or more Phase II awards during
the past 10 years, excluding the most recently completed two fiscal
years, must have received an average of at least $100,000 of sales and/
or investments per Phase II award received; or have received a number
of patents equal to or greater than 15% of the number of Phase II
awards received during the period. For example, if a company won 18
Phase II awards during fiscal years 2007 through 2011, it would be
required to meet the commercialization benchmark calculated on June 1st
2014 because it had received more than 16 Phase II awards in the 5 year
time period. On June 1st 2014, the company shows, through its reporting
on these 18 awards, that it has achieved $1.7 million in sales and/or
additional investment and 3 patents resulting directly from the work
done under these awards. The sales and investment amount is not
sufficient to meet the benchmark of $100,000 per award, however, with 3
patents the company exceeds the patent requirement of 2.7 (15% of 18
awards) and therefore meets the benchmark requirement.
As the data system for the SBIR/STTR programs develops and is able
to collect additional data for measuring commercialization results, the
agencies and SBA may refine the Commercialization Benchmark to include
other measures and/or adjust the required performance levels.
SBA has reviewed and approved this benchmark. Section 5165 of the
SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 requires SBA to publish, at least
60 days before becoming effective, the system and performance standard
to be used, and the approval by SBA. Therefore, SBA will review all
comments received in response to this notice and issue the final
commercialization benchmark requirement within 60 days of the date this
notice is published. That notice will be made available at
www.sbir.gov.
For greater detail on the Commercialization Rate benchmark
requirement, see Section 4(a)(3) of the SBIR Policy Directive (77 FR
46806) and the STTR Policy Directive (77 FR 46855).
Pravina Raghavan,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Investments and Innovation.
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