Transit, airport and local agencies with DOT funds

Which agency needs the DBE program?

See whether your agency must have a DBE program under 49 CFR part 26, what goes in it, and how disadvantage is shown now. A free note.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door

ePlan fills in

  • DOT funding received
  • Local firms by industry
  • Market area

How it works

DBE program requirement note, from one answer

  1. Name the agency and its DOT funding.
  2. ePlan checks 49 CFR 26.21 and pulls local firm counts by industry.
  3. Read the free note. Building with that DOT money? Start the NEPA categorical exclusion memo.

What you get

DBE program requirement note and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Categorical exclusion memo (or short EA) in the agency's format door.

The first draft

DBE program requirement note (free)

  1. Your agency and its DOT funding
  2. Whether 49 CFR 26.21 requires a program
  3. Program elements: policy statement, contract assurances, reporting
  4. Small business participation
  5. Overall goal method and schedule
  6. How owners show disadvantage now

Modeled on: 49 CFR part 26

Next · 2

NEPA categorical exclusion memo

  1. Proposed action and CE category
  2. Extraordinary circumstances
  3. Determination

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

$250,000

in FAA-funded prime contracts in a federal fiscal year is the point at which an airport sponsor must have a DBE program
Source: 49 CFR 26.21(a)(3), eCFR

Ready for the paperwork?

Draft a NEPA categorical exclusion memo or short environmental assessment for a federally funded project, in the agency's format. Free to read.

Categorical exclusion memo (or short EA) in the agency's format →

Questions

DBE Program Plan Requirements Check: what people ask

Who must have a DBE program?

All FHWA primary recipients; FTA recipients of planning, capital or operating aid, with Tier II recipients keeping a shorter local program; and FAA airport sponsors whose FAA-funded prime contracts top $250,000 in a federal fiscal year.

Source: ecfr.gov

How often are DBE goals set?

If you set your overall goal on a fiscal-year basis, you submit it to the DOT operating administration by August 1 at three-year intervals, on a schedule FHWA, FTA or FAA posts. You may adjust it during the three years.

Source: ecfr.gov

How do owners show disadvantage now?

From their own experience, without any presumption based on race or sex. Each owner gives the certifier a personal narrative naming at least one objective basis for disadvantage, plus a personal net worth statement.

Source: ecfr.gov

The rules this door follows