Small Business

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-025782",
  "term": "Small Business",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A small business means a corporation, partnership, or un-incorporated business that has 500 or fewer employees and, during the 3-year period before the most recent maintenance fee billing cycle, has average annual global gross revenue from pesticides that did not exceed $60 million (including any such revenue from all of its affiliates).\n\n2. Company that qualifies under the standard-setting part for special provisions for small businesses or small-volume manufacturers.\n\n3. Company that qualifies as a small business under the regulations adopted by the Small Business Administration at 13 CFR 121.201 if the standard-setting part does not establish such qualifying criteria.\n\n4. Any manufacturer, importer, or processor who meets either paragraph (a)(4)(i) or (ii) of this section:(i) A business is small if its total annual sales, when combined with those of its parent (if any), are less than $40 million. However, if the annual manufacture, importation, or processing volume of a particular chemical substance at any individual site owned or controlled by the business is greater than 45,400 kilograms (100,000 pounds), the business shall not qualify as small for purposes of reporting on the manufacture, importation, or processing of that chemical substance at that site, unless the business qualifies as small under paragraph (a)(4)(ii) of this section.(ii) A business is small if its total annual sales, when combined with those of its parent company (if any), are less than $4 million, regardless of the quantity of the particular chemical substance manufactured, imported, or processed by that business.(iii) For imported and processed mixtures containing HEX-BCH, the 45,400 kilograms (100,000 pounds) standard in paragraph (a)(4)(i) of this section applies only to the amount of HEX-BCH in a mixture and not the other components of the mixture.\n\n5. Manufacturer or importer whose annual sales, when combined with those of its parent company (if any) are less than $30 million.\n\n6. Any person whose total annual sales in the person's fiscal year preceding the date of the submission of the applicable section 5 notice, when combined with those of the parent company (if any), are less than $40 million.\n\n7. Small business means a corporation, partnership, or un-incorporated business that has 500 or fewer employees and, during the 3-year period before the most recent maintenance fee billing cycle, has average annual global gross revenue from pesticides that did not exceed $60 million (including any such revenue from all of its affiliates).",
  "subject": "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides",
  "references": [
    "PRIA Fee Determination Glossary",
    "40 CFR 1068.30 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 704.102 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 791.3 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 700.43 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/small-business/"
}