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 PUBLIC LAW 96-302—JULY 2, 1980 (1) examine the current role of small business in the economy on an industry-by-industry basis; (2) present current and historical data on production, employment, investment, and other economic variables for small business in the economy as a whole and for small business in each sector of the economy; (3) identify economic trends which will or may affect the small business sector and the state of competition; (4) examine the effects on small business and competition of policies, programs, and activities, including, but not limited to the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Securities Act of 1933, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and regulations promulgated thereunder; identify problems generated by such policies, programs, and activities; and recommend legislative and administrative solutions to such problems; and (5) recommend a program for carrying out the policy declared in section 302 of this Act, together with such recommendations for legislation as he may deem necessary or desirable. (b) The President also shall transmit simultaneously as an appendix to such annual report, a report, by agency and department, on the total dollar value of all Federal contracts exceeding $10,000 in amount and the dollar amount (including the subcontracts thereunder in excess of $10,000) awarded to small, minority-owned and female-owned businesses. (c) The President may transmit from time to time to the Congress reports supplementary to the Report on Small Business and Competition, each of which shall include such supplementary or revised recommendations as he may deem necessary or desirable to achieve the policy declared in section 302 of this Act. (d) The Report on Small Business and Competition and all supplementary reports transmitted under subsections (h) and (c) of this section shall, when transmitted to Congress, be referred to the Senate Select Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives.

94 STAT. 849

26 USC 29 USC note, 15 USC 15 USC

1 et seq. 1001 77a. 78a.

Appendix to report, transmittal to Congress.

Supplementary reports, transmittal to Congress. Referral to congressional committees.

TITLE IV—SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS SEC. 401. The Small Business Act is amended by redesignating subsection 4(b) as subsection 4(b)(l) and inserting thereafter the 15 USC 633 following: "(2) The Administrator also shall be responsible for— "(A) establishing and maintaining an external small business Data base. economic data base for the purpose of providing the Congress and the Administration information on the economic condition and the expansion or contraction of the small business sector. To that Economic end, the Administrator shall publish on a regular basis national indices, small business economic indices and, to the extent feasible, publication. regional small business economic indices, which shall include, but need not be limited to, data on— "(i) employment, layoffs, and new hires; "(ii) number of business establishments and the types of such establishments such as sole proprietorships, corporations, and partnerships; "(iii) number of business formations and failures; "(iv) sales and new orders;

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