[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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.









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Sec.

1400.1 Purpose and scope.

1400.2 Definitions.

1400.3 Request for determination.

1400.4 Evidence of social or economic disadvantage.

1400.5 Decision.

1400.6 Construction.



    Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1512, E.O. 11625, 3 CFR 616 (1971-75), 36 FR 

19967 (1971); and E.O. 12432, 3 CFR 198 (1983), 48 FR 32551 (1983).



    Source: 49 FR 42698, Oct. 24, 1984, unless otherwise noted.





    (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.