Sentences with phrase «considered small entities»

Lenders making less than 5000 loans and holding their own loans are considered small entities and are exempt from various servicing rules.

Similarly, small government jurisdictions with a population of less than 50,000 are considered small entities.

Nonprofit organizations are also considered small entities; [75] however, individuals and states are not included in the definition of a small entity.

This dataset allowed the Department to estimate the number of firms with a given NAICS code that falls below the $ 38.5 million threshold to be considered a small entity by the SBA.

Not exact matches

For purposes of the RFA, the Department continues to consider an employee benefit plan with fewer than 100 participants to be a small entity.

And Jim Seitz, communications manager for Wells Fargo says, «A U.S. - based business - entity of a Canadian business could be considered for small business credit, yet the business owner applying for credit must have a permanent resident card (or green card) in order for us to proceed.»

The telling point that Galileo presented ironically was that if you really wanted to start from a small number of entities, you could always consider the letters of the alphabet as the fundamental entities, since you could construct the whole of human knowledge out of them.

At DOT, we analyze the costs and benefits for all of our rulemakings to ensure that potential impacts of draft rules on small entities will be properly considered, and, where possible, we try to alleviate any disproportionate regulatory burden on small entities.

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The «universe» of the entities considered in an IRFA generally includes only those small entities that can reasonably expect to be directly regulated by this proposed action.

Having felt the sting of an oil crisis a few years prior and realizing that, indeed, fossil fuel is a finite entity, Americans began seriously considering (and buying) small, economical cars.

The structure of the investment company industry is such that the funds you should consider most seriously are the ones about which you hear the least: small, nimble, independent entities with skilled managers who — in many cases — have left major firms in disgust at the realization that the corporation's needs were going to trump their investors» needs.

Officially established in 1895, the city of Barre was formerly part of a smaller neighboring town with the same name, but both are now considered independent entities.

While the exact number and size of affected entities is not known, in 2007 there were about 12,600 establishments in the generalized category of «other miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers» (NAICS 424990), which includes importers of dogs, and about 99 percent of those establishments were considered small in 2007.

In discussing the requirement for covered entities to prepare and make available a notice, we considered exempting small businesses (83 percent of entities) or extremely small entities (fewer than 10 employees).

In developing this rule, the Department considered a variety of alternatives for minimizing the economic burden that it will create for small entities.

The Department considered extending the compliance period for small entities but concluded that it did not have the legal authority to do so (see discussion above).

Although we considered the needs of small entities during our discussions of all provisions for this final rule, we are highlighting the most significant discussions in the following sections:

Although there may be increased certainty once an issued patent is considered to have the stamp of CIPO's approval, and despite the government's 2006 benevolent «top up provisions», recent examples illustrate how the «large entity» vs «small entity» issue may still continue to be a viable challenge.

Small entities and inventors have been given far too little voice on this bill when one considers that they rely far more heavily on the patent system than do large firms who can control their markets by their size alone.