Ombudsman and Regulatory Fairness Boards
Small Business Administration
To assure equity and fairness in federal regulation of small business by receiving comments from small businesses, small non-profit organizations or small government entities (representing less than 50,000 people) regarding regulatory compliance and enforcement involving Federal Agencies or Agency employees; to ease undue compliance burdens for small business by: (a) facilitating independent, high-level Agency reviews of compliance or enforcement activities against small businesses and (b) prom
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Helps small businesses and non-profits share their concerns about federal regulations. It provides support to reduce compliance burdens and access resources.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Provides independent and confidential assistance to small entities, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations experiencing issues with federal regulatory enforcement. This includes addressing concerns of uneven or excessive enforcement, non-payment of invoices by federal agencies, incorrect assessments, penalties, and systemic regulatory issues. The office helps reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens by holding federal agencies accountable, often leading to resolved payment disputes, penalty abatements, decision reversals, and systemic changes.
Who Is Eligible?
Business Size: small
Region: United States
Other Criteria: government entities, not-for-profit organizations, experiencing excessive or uneven federal regulatory enforcement actions, experiencing issues with federal agency audits, on-site inspections, compliance assistance efforts, or other enforcement-related communication, experiencing issues with existing federal regulation or guidelines
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- File a federal agency comment if experiencing excessive or uneven regulatory enforcement actions.
- If unable to file using the online form, email the PDF comment form to ombudsman@sba.gov.
- If you cannot access either form, call 888-REG-FAIR.
- 🌐Application Portal
- http://www.sba.gov/ombudsman
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 🔄Intake Type
- rolling
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424A (Budget Information - Non-Construction)
- SF-424B (Assurances)
- Project Narrative
- Budget Narrative
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
- 📥Templates Available
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- annual
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- annual report to Congress
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- null
- 📢Branding Requirements
- null
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- null
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FAQFrequently Asked Questions
This program is available to small businesses located in United States.
This program offers funding up to $9,999,999,999 (minimum $5).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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