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DBE Program Regulatory Issuances Archives

This section is devoted to Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in Department of Transportation Programs (49 CFR 26).

The DOT DBE program is implemented by recipients of DOT Federal Financial Assistance. Recipients are primarily state highway, transit and airport agencies.

For an overview of the DBE Program, please click here.

Airport Concession Requirement   

• Additional Guidance on Airport Concessions pertaining to statement of personal net worth (6/19/01)
• New SNPRM for DBE airport concessions.
  Federal Register, September 8, 2000. HTML / PDF.
• FAA Guidance on Airport Concession Requirements Attachment 1
• Setting FY 2001 Concession Goals Under 49 CFR Part 23 - Attachment 1A
• Additional FAA Guidance on Airport Concession Requirements
• Overall DBE Concession Goal PDF

1999 DBE RULE   

• Paving the Road to Equal Opportunity - Key issues in the new rule
• The New DOT DBE Rule is Narrowly Tailored - Meeting the Adarand Test
• What's New in the New DOT DBE Rule - A Summary of Key Changes
• Existing DBE Legislative Requirement in TEA-21
• SAFETEA-LU Reauthorizes DBE program and Raises DBE size cap to $ 19.57 million – See DBE program reauthorization Provision
• Sample No Change Declaration For Concessionaires [49 CFR § 26.83(j)] Word / PDF (4/08/04)
• Sample No Change Affidavit For Concessionaires [49 CFR § 26.83(j)] Word / PDF (4/08/04)
• Amendment to DOT's Regulations for the DBE Program (49 CFR Part 26) Federal Register, June 16, 2003, HTML / PDF
  
• DBE Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
  Federal Register, May 8, 2001. HTML / PDF
  
• Interim Final Rule Pertaining to Threshold Requirements and Other Technical Revisions. Federal Register, November 15, 2000. HTML / PDF
  
• New SNPRM for DBE airport concessions.
  Federal Register, September 8, 2000. HTML / PDF.
  
• DBE size cap raised to $17,420,000.
  Federal Register, August 29, 2000. HTML / PDF.
  
• Correction to the DOT DBE Final Rule.
  Federal Register, June 28, 1999. HTML / PDF.
  

• New DBE Rule, (49 CFR 26), Federal Register, February 2, 1999. Indexed HTML /  HTML / PDF
  

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    • APPENDIX A to PART 26--GUIDANCE CONCERNING GOOD FAITH EFFORTS
    • APPENDIX B to PART 26--FORMS [Reserved] No Data
    • APPENDIX C to PART 26--DBE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM GUIDELINES
    • APPENDIX D to Part 26--Mentor-Protege Program Guidelines
    • APPENDIX E to Part 26--Individual Determinations of Social and Economic Disadvantage