§ 23.65 - Content of justification.

An FHWA or UMTA or FAA recipient requesting approval of an overall goal of less than ten percent shall include information on the following points in its justification. Guidance concerning this information is found in appendix D.

(a) The recipient's efforts to locate disadvantaged businesses;

(b) The recipient's efforts to make disadvantaged businesses aware of contracting opportunities;

(c) The recipient's initiatives to encourage and develop disadvantaged businesses;

(d) Legal or other barriers impeding the participation of disadvantaged businesses at at least a ten percent level in the recipient's DOT-assisted contracts, and the recipient's efforts to overcome or mitigate the effects of these barriers;

(e) The availability of disadvantaged businesses to work on the recipient's DOT-assisted contracts;

(f) The size and other characteristics of the minority population of the recipient's jurisdiction, and the relevance of these factors to the availability or potential availability of disadvantaged businesses to work on the recipient's DOT-assisted contracts; and

(g) A summary of the views and information concerning the availability of disadvantaged businesses and the adequacy of the recipient's efforts to increase the participation of such businesses provided by the persons and organizations consulted by the recipient under § 23.64(f)(3).