---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 639a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "639a"
heading: "Review of loan program; submission of estimated needs for additional authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/639a"
units:
  - "Chapter 14A — Aid to Small Business"
---

# §639a. Review of loan program; submission of estimated needs for additional authorization


It is the sense of the Congress that the regular business loan program of the Small Business [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) should be reviewed by the Congress at least once every two years. It is further the sense of the Congress that the Small Business [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) should submit its estimated needs for additional authorization for such program to the Congress at least one year in advance of the date on which such authorization is to be provided, in order to assure an orderly and recurring review of such program and to avoid emergency appeals for additional authorization. Compliance by the Small Business [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) with the foregoing policy will enable the Congress on and after July 25, 1962, to provide additional authorization for such program on a two-year basis.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–550, § 1(b), July 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 221.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter.