Nearly 1,000 public comments on SBA’s size standards proposals are sitting unpublished — and the comment period closes November 20.
Here is where the two dockets stand today, using SBA’s own numbers on Regulations.gov:
Small Business Size Standards (Docket SBA-2026-0199): 3,710 submissions received, 3,159 published. 551 not published — 14.9%.
Revised Size Standards Methodology (Docket SBA-2026-0265, RIN 3245-AI67, “Small Business Size Standards: Revised Size Standards Methodology”): 1,437 received, 997 published. 440 not published — 30.6%.
Across both dockets: 5,147 received, 4,156 published, 991 not published — 19.3% of everything filed.
Read the methodology number again. Three out of every ten comments filed on the methodology behind these size standards are not public.
The publishing has also stopped. SBA has posted nothing to either docket since November 4 — nine days. Before this, the longest gap on the record was ten days in October.
The slowdown is not new. Through September 21, SBA was publishing roughly 112 comments a day. From late September it was about 16 a day. Through late October, about 10 a day. Since November 4, none.
I am not going to guess at the reason. SBA has published no notice explaining it, and Regulations.gov displays no note.
The practical problem is plain. Comments close November 20. A small business trying to read what its own industry said before filing cannot see a third of the methodology record.
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