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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

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DBE Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) Federal Register, May 8, 2001

The Department of Transportation (DOT or the Department) is proposing revisions to the Department’s regulations for its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program (49 CFR part 26). In its final DBE rule the Department reserved publication of a uniform reporting form and a uniform...

The New DOT Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Regulation

Last year, the Congress reauthorized and the President signed legislation authorizing the DBE program. This program has been the Department of Transportation's most important tool for promoting equal opportunity in federal transportation contracting since it was first signed into law by...

Overall Goal Schedule and Substitution

This notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) would propose to improve administration of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program by calling upon recipients of DOT financial assistance to transmit overall goals to the Department for approval every three years, rather than annually.

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