# Data Collection Available for Public Comments
**ACTION:**
60-Day notice and request for comments.
**SUMMARY:**
The Small Business Administration (SBA) intends to request approval, from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the collection of information described below. The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, requires federal agencies to publish a notice in the *Federal Register* concerning each proposed collection of information before submission to OMB, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice complies with that requirement.
**DATES:**
Submit comments on or before December 16, 2022.
**ADDRESSES:**
Send all comments to Louis Cupp, New Markets Policy Analyst, Office of Investment and Innovation, Small Business Administration, Washington, DC 20416.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Louis Cupp, New Markets Policy Analyst, 202-619-0511 *[email protected]* Curtis B. Rich, Agency Clearance Officer, 202-205-7030 *[email protected].*
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The information collected on SBA Form 480, “Size Status Declaration” is a certification of small business size status. This information collection is used to determine whether SBIC financial assistance is provided only to small business concerns as defined in the Small Business Investment Act and SBA size regulations. Without this certification, businesses that exceed SBA's size standards could benefit from program resources meant for small businesses.
*OMB Control Number:* 3245-0009.
*Title:* “Size Status Declaration”.
*Description of Respondents:* Small business Investment Companies.
*Form Number:* 480.
*Annual Responses:* 1,705.
*Annual Burden:* 233.
Curtis Rich,
Agency Clearance Officer.