No more than 5 percent of an agency's topics may be waived in a fiscal year
What the document says“A Federal agency may not grant a waiver under this paragraph with respect to more than 5 percent of the topics of the SBIR and STTR programs of the Federal agency in any fiscal year.”
Subparagraph (G) caps the waivers. In any fiscal year an agency may not grant a waiver for more than 5 percent of the topics of its SBIR and STTR programs.
What the document actually says“A Federal agency may not grant a waiver under this paragraph with respect to more than 5 percent of the topics of the SBIR and STTR programs of the Federal agency in any fiscal year.”
An agency can lift the cap for only a few topics. The most is one topic in twenty each year.
The count covers both programs at the agency. Without this cap the lifts could undo the limit.
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