[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR230.202]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 230_EXTERNAL PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart B_Supportive Services for Minority, Disadvantaged, and Women 
                          Business Enterprises
 
Sec. 230.202  Definitions.

    (a) Minority Business Enterprise, as used in this subpart, refers to 
all small businesses which participate in the

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Federal-aid highway program as a minority business enterprise (MBE), 
women business enterprise (WBE), or disadvantaged business enterprise 
(DBE), all defined under 49 CFR part 23. This expanded definition is 
used only in this subpart as a simplified way of defining the firms 
eligible to benefit from this supportive services program.
    (b) Supportive Services means those services and activities provided 
in connection with minority business enterprise programs which are 
designed to increase the total number of minority businesses active in 
the highway program and contribute to the growth and eventual self-
sufficiency of individual minority businesses so that such businesses 
may achieve proficiency to compete, on an equal basis, for contracts and 
subcontracts.
    (c) State highway agency means that department, commission, board, 
or official of any State charged by its laws with the responsibility for 
highway construction. The term State is considered equivalent to State 
highway agency if the context so implies.