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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:20px 0" align="left">Advocacy’s Spring Economic Bulletin examines how small businesses have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic and the new challenges they face. The current demand for small business lending has outpaced supply, and fewer small firms are receiving full amounts of requested financing.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align:center;line-height:1.1;font-weight:bold;color:#002e6d;font-family:helvetica;font-size:20px;margin:0 0 20px" align="center">Advocacy News</h1>
<h2 style="line-height:1.1;font-weight:bold;color:#197e4e;font-family:helvetica;font-size:14px;text-align:left;margin:0" align="left"><a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDYsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjA3MjAuNjEwMjIxMDEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Fkdm9jYWN5LnNiYS5nb3YvMjAyMi8wNy8xNC9vZmZpY2Utb2YtYWR2b2NhY3ktYXBwb2ludHMtd2lsbC1wdXJjZWxsLXRvLXNlcnZlLWFzLWRpcmVjdG9yLW9mLXJlZ2lvbmFsLWFmZmFpcnMvP3V0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1nb3ZkZWxpdmVyeSJ9.uehLKYSHI0XqXscP2WPQKwSNpCw1hzRiGDoepo9ww-w/s/1807857771/br/141301714910-l" style="color:#197e4e;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word" target="_blank">Advocacy Welcomes Regional Director Will Purcell</a></h2>
<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">Will Purcell, an executive, consultant, and lawyer with over twenty years’ experience working with small businesses, has joined Advocacy as Director of Regional Affairs. In this role, Purcell will manage and coordinate regional advocates for all ten SBA regions, ensuring that small business concerns are heard in Washington, D.C.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">Advocacy is pleased to announce that Bill Elmore, who served as the first Associate Administrator for Veterans Business Development for the Small Business Administration, has joined the organization as Regional Advocate for Region 7, encompassing Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.</p>
<h1 style="text-align:center;line-height:1.1;font-weight:bold;color:#002e6d;font-family:helvetica;font-size:20px;margin:0 0 20px" align="center">Regulatory Alerts</h1>
<h2 style="line-height:1.1;font-weight:bold;color:#197e4e;font-family:helvetica;font-size:14px;text-align:left;margin:0" align="left"><a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDgsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjA3MjAuNjEwMjIxMDEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Fkdm9jYWN5LnNiYS5nb3YvMjAyMi8wNy8xMi9lcGEtc2Vla3Mtc21hbGwtZW50aXR5LXJlcHJlc2VudGF0aXZlcy1mb3ItYS1wb3RlbnRpYWwtc2JyZWZhLXBhbmVsLWZvci1pdHMtdHNjYS1zZWN0aW9uLThhNy10aWVyZWQtZGF0YS1yZXBvcnRpbmctYW5kLXJlY29yZGtlZXBpbmctcmVxdWlyZW1lbnRzLWZvci1jaGVtaWNhbC1zdWJzdGFuY2UtbWFudWZhY3R1cmVycy1hbmQtcHJvY2Vzc29yLz91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9Z292ZGVsaXZlcnkifQ.3fxU3eK6tqXDf-BeDsiemeWVTQKr8Mvc1n-FAAIB1E4/s/1807857771/br/141301714910-l" style="color:#197e4e;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word" target="_blank">EPA Seeks Small Entity Representatives for a Potential SBREFA Panel for Its TSCA Section 8(a) Tiered Data Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Chemical Substance Manufacturers and Processors</a></h2>
<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On July 6, EPA announced that it is seeking small businesses to participate in a SBREFA panel for a new rule under TSCA. The rule would establish a framework of reporting requirements tiered to specific stages of the TSCA existing chemicals program.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">EPA seeks comments on a draft revision to its risk determination for n-methylpyrrolidone. Comments are due August 1.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">EPA seeks comments on a draft revision to its risk determination for methylene chloride. Comments are due August 4.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">EPA seeks comments on a draft revision to its risk determination for trichloroethylene. Comments are due August 8.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">EPA seeks comments on a draft revision to its risk determination for perchloroethylene. Comments are due August 1.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">The Agriculture Marketing Service seeks comments on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on poultry growing tournament systems. These comments are due September 9. Additionally, the Agriculture Marketing Service seeks comments on a proposed rule on poultry grower contracting and tournament systems. Comments on the proposed rule are due August 8.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">The Bureau of Ocean Management seeks comments on a draft fisheries mitigation guidance related to renewable energy sources. BOEM will be holding a series of meetings throughout July on the guidance. Written comments are due August 22.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On May 24, Advocacy submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service on a proposed rule to establish animal welfare standards in birds not bred for research.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On June 17, Advocacy submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission encouraging it to publish a Supplemental Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis on new rules related to climate disclosures.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On July 5, Advocacy submitted comments on an Environmental Protection Agency proposed rulemaking on reporting and recordkeeping requirements for asbestos under the Toxic Substance Control Act.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">The Environmental Protection Agency seeks comments on its draft Guidance for States Applying for No-Discharge Zones. Written comments are due August 26.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the public comment period for rules prohibiting menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibiting characterizing flavors other than tobacco in all cigars and their components and parts. Comments are now due August 2.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On June 9, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule. Comments are due August 8. </p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On June 3, the Army Corps of Engineers announced an effort to modernize the Civil Works program of the Army Corps. These modernization efforts are related to its Tribal consultation policy, potential rulemaking actions regarding the implementation of the National Historic Preservation Act, and environmental justice. Comments are due August 2.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On June 10, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would implement a new credit assistance program for safety projects to maintain, upgrade, and repair dams owned by states, local governments, public utilities, or private utilities. Comments on the notice are due August 9.</p>
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<p style="line-height:1.4;color:#000000;font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:12px;text-align:left;margin:0 0 20px" align="left">On June 3, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation published a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking comment on changes to update and clarify the regulations to implement the Community Reinvestment Act. Comments on the notice are due August 5.</p>
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