(a) Foster small businessFor the purpose of preserving and promoting a competitive free enterprise economic system, Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practical means and to take such actions as are necessary, consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, to implement and coordinate all Federal department, agency, and instrumentality policies, programs, and activities in order to: foster the economic interests of small businesses; insure a competitive economic climate conducive to the development, growth and expansion of small businesses; establish incentives to assure that adequate capital and other resources at competitive prices are available to small businesses; reduce the concentration of economic resources and expand competition; and provide an opportunity for entrepreneurship, inventiveness, and the creation and growth of small businesses.
(b) Capital availability to small businessCongress further declares that the Federal Government is committed to a policy of utilizing all reasonable means, consistent with the overall economic policy goals of the Nation and the preservation of the competitive free enterprise system of the Nation, to establish private sector incentives that will help assure that adequate capital at competitive prices is available to small businesses. To fulfill this policy, departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government shall use all reasonable means to coordinate, create, and sustain policies and programs which promote investment in small businesses, including those investments which expand employment opportunities and which foster the effective and efficient use of human and natural resources in the economy of the Nation.
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CHAPTER 14A— AID TO SMALL BUSINESS
§ 631a. Congressional declaration of small business economic policy
§ 631b. Reports to Congress; state of small business
§ 631c. Small Business Manufacturing Task Force
§ 633. Small Business Administration
§ 633a. Detailed justification for proposed changes in budget requests
§ 634a. Office of Advocacy within Small Business Administration; Chief Counsel for Advocacy
§ 634b. Primary functions of Office of Advocacy
§ 634c. Additional duties of Office of Advocacy
§ 634d. Staff and powers of Office of Advocacy
§ 634e. Assistance of Government agencies
§ 634g. Budgetary line item and authorization of appropriations
§ 636b. Disaster loan interest rates
§ 636c. Age of applicant for disaster loans
§ 636d. Disaster aid to major sources of employment
§ 636g. Development and implementation of major disaster response plan
§ 636h. Disaster planning responsibilities
§ 636i. Small business bonding threshold
§ 636k. Reports on disaster assistance
§ 637b. Availability of information
§ 637d. Subcontracting plan reports
§ 638. Research and development
§ 638b. Reducing vulnerability of SBIR and STTR programs to fraud, waste, and abuse
§ 639. Reporting requirements and agency cooperation
§ 639a. Review of loan program; submission of estimated needs for additional authorization
§ 640. Voluntary agreements among small-business concerns
§ 641. Transfer to Administration of other functions, powers, and duties
§ 643. Fair charge for use of Government-owned property
§ 644a. Small Business Procurement Advisory Council
§ 645a. Annual report on suspensions and debarments proposed by Small Business Administration
§ 647. Duplication of activities of other Federal departments or agencies
§ 648. Small business development center program authorization
§ 648c. SBA and USPTO partnerships
§ 649. Office of International Trade
§ 649b. Grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for international marketing programs
§ 649c. Authorization of appropriations
§ 649d. Central information clearinghouse
§ 650. Supervisory and enforcement authority for small business lending companies
§ 651. National small business tree planting program
§ 652. Central European Enterprise Development Commission
§ 653. Office of Rural Affairs
§ 654. Paul D. Coverdell drug-free workplace program
§ 655. Pilot Technology Access Program
§ 656. Women’s Business Center program
§ 657. Oversight of regulatory enforcement
§ 657d. Federal and State Technology Partnership Program
§ 657f–1. Certification of small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans
§ 657g. Participation in federally funded projects
§ 657h. Small business energy efficiency
§ 657i. Coordination of disaster assistance programs with FEMA
§ 657j. Information tracking and follow-up system for disaster assistance
§ 657k. Disaster processing redundancy
§ 657l. Comprehensive disaster response plan
§ 657m. Plans to secure sufficient office space
§ 657n. Immediate Disaster Assistance program
§ 657o. Annual reports on disaster assistance
§ 657p. Outreach regarding health insurance options available to children
§ 657q. Consolidation of contract requirements
§ 657r. Mentor-protege programs
§ 657s. Limitations on subcontracting