[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR1400.1]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
            CHAPTER XIV--MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
 
PART 1400_DETERMINATION OF GROUP ELIGIBILITY FOR MBDA ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1400.1  Purpose and scope.

    (a) The purpose of this part is to set forth regulations for 
determination of group eligibility for MBDA assistance.
    (b) In order to be eligible to receive assistance from MBDA funded 
organizations, a concern must be a minority business enterprise. A 
minority business enterprise is a business enterprise that is owned or 
controlled by one or more socially or economically disadvantaged 
persons. Executive Order 11625 designates Blacks, Puerto-Ricans, 
Spanish-speaking Americans, American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts as 
persons who are socially or economically disadvantaged and thus eligible 
for MBDA assistance. Other groups designated are listed below in 
paragraph (c). The purpose of this regulation is to provide guidance to 
groups not previously designated as eligible for assistance who believe 
they are entitled to formal designation as ``socially or economically 
disadvantage'' under the Executive Order. Upon adequate showing by 
representatives of the group that the group is, as a whole, socially or 
economically disadvantaged the group will be so designated and its 
members will be eligible for MBDA assistance. Designation under 
Executive Order 11625 establishes eligibility status only for MBDA 
funded programs. It will not establish eligibility for any other Federal 
or Federally funded program.
    (c) In addition to those listed in E.O. 11625, members of the 
following groups have been designated as eligible to receive assistance: 
Hasidic Jews, Asian Pacific Americans, and Asian Indians.