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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program Revisions
The Transportation Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on September 25, 2026. It took effect on September 25, 2026.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT or Department) is finalizing amendments to its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) program regulations. With few modifications, this final rule follows the interim final rule (IFR) published on October 3, 2025, which eliminated race- and sex-based presumptions that DOT determined to be unconstitutional. This action completes the transition to a system of individualized determinations of social and economic disadvantage to ensure program constitutional compliance and addresses administrative challenges identified by stakeholders during the public comment period.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-19688
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Transportation Department
- Published
- September 25, 2026
- Takes effect
- September 25, 2026
- Dates
- This rule is effective September 25, 2026.
- Docket
- Docket No. DOT-OST-2025-0897
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2105-AF33
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 49 CFR 23; 49 CFR 26
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Airports; Civil rights; Government contracts; Grant programs-transportation; Mass transportation; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Transportation
- Pages
- 16
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