[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR23.59]

[Page 216]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 23_PARTICIPATION OF DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN AIRPORT 
CONCESSIONS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart D_Goals, Good Faith Efforts, and Counting
 
Sec.  23.59  What is the role of the statutory 10 percent goal in the ACDBE 
program?

    (a) The statute authorizing the ACDBE program provides that, except 
to the extent the Secretary determines otherwise, not less than 10 
percent of concession businesses are to be ACDBEs.
    (b) This 10 percent goal is an aspirational goal at the national 
level, which the Department uses as a tool in evaluating and monitoring 
DBEs' opportunities to participate in airport concessions.
    (c) The national 10 percent aspirational goal does not authorize or 
require recipients to set overall or concession-specific goals at the 10 
percent level, or any other particular level, or to take any special 
administrative steps if their goals are above or below 10 percent.