Reforms to 13 CFR 124.103 To Remove SBA's 8(a) Program's Rebuttable Presumption of Social Disadvantage for Individually Owned Firms Only

The load-bearing primary for this alert, and the one the scout batch could not open. Its Federal Register page returns an anti-bot redirect; the complete text was retrieved instead from the Government Publishing Office plain-text edition at federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/08/11/2026-16370.txt, read end to end on 2026-09-07 rather than summarized. Pages 51568 to 51573. Every quotation in the alert’s six parts that is attributed to “the rule” or “SBA” is taken from this document, including the DATES line, the cost-benefit analysis, the Regulatory Flexibility certification, the Paperwork Reduction Act collection note, and the revised regulatory text of 124.103 as it appears at the end of the document over the Administrator’s signature.