15 U.S.C. § 634b : US Code - Section 634B: Primary functions of Office of Advocacy

Search 15 U.S.C. § 634b : US Code - Section 634B: Primary functions of Office of Advocacy

The primary functions of the Office of Advocacy shall be to -
(1) examine the role of small business in the American economy
and the contribution which small business can make in improving
competition, encouraging economic and social mobility for all
citizens, restraining inflation, spurring production, expanding
employment opportunities, increasing productivity, promoting
exports, stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship, and
providing an avenue through which new and untested products and
services can be brought to the marketplace;
(2) assess the effectiveness of existing Federal subsidy and
assistance programs for small business and the desirability of
reducing the emphasis on such existing programs and increasing
the emphasis on general assistance programs designed to benefit
all small businesses;
(3) measure the direct costs and other effects of government
regulation on small businesses; and make legislative and
nonlegislative proposals for eliminating excessive or unnecessary
regulations of small businesses;
(4) determine the impact of the tax structure on small
businesses and make legislative and other proposals for altering
the tax structure to enable all small businesses to realize their
potential for contributing to the improvement of the Nation's
economic well-being;
(5) study the ability of financial markets and institutions to
meet small business credit needs and determine the impact of
government demands for credit on small businesses;
(6) determine financial resource availability and to recommend
methods for delivery of financial assistance to minority
enterprises, including methods for securing equity capital, for
generating markets for goods and services, for providing
effective business education, more effective management and
technical assistance, and training, and for assistance in
complying with Federal, State, and local law;
(7) evaluate the efforts of Federal agencies, business and
industry to assist minority enterprises;
(8) make such other recommendations as may be appropriate to
assist the development and strengthening of minority and other
small business enterprises;
(9) recommend specific measures for creating an environment in
which all businesses will have the opportunity to complete (!1)
effectively and expand to their full potential, and to ascertain
the common reasons, if any, for small business successes and
failures;
(10) determine the desirability of developing a set of
rational, objective criteria to be used to define small business,
and to develop such criteria, if appropriate;
(11) advise, cooperate with, and consult with, the Chairman of
the Administrative Conference of the United States with respect
to section 504(e) of title 5; and
(12) evaluate the efforts of each department and agency of the
United States, and of private industry, to assist small business
concerns owned and controlled by veterans, as defined in section
632(q) of this title, and small business concerns owned and
controlled by serviced-disabled (!2) veterans, as defined in such
section 632(q) of this title, and to provide statistical
information on the utilization of such programs by such small
business concerns, and to make appropriate recommendations to the
Administrator of the Small Business Administration and to the
Congress in order to promote the establishment and growth of
those small business concerns.