Small Business Administration National Ombudsman's 2009 Report to Congress: Breaking Down Barriers, Building Relationships, Growing and Supporting Small Businesses.

摘要

This is the Fiscal Year 2009 report to Congress on the activities of the Small Business Administration's National Ombudsman. The Office of the National Ombudsman (ONO) in the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) seeks to foster a more small business-friendly Federal regulatory environment and help save small businesses time, money, and jobs, thereby improving the economy overall. It does this by evaluating how Federal agencies treat small businesses during enforcement or compliance actions; increasing compliance assistance activities; decreasing the number of excessive and otherwise unfair enforcement actions by Federal regulatory agencies; and, most importantly, increasing the number of small businesses helped by SBA's ONO, which seeks to ensure that particular concerns or complaints are heard and addressed by high-level Federal agency officials. ONO is given this authority through the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA).