---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 C.F.R. § 124.300"
title: "13"
number: "124.300"
heading: "What are the ways a business may leave the 8(a) BD program?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/13/124.300"
---

# §124.300. What are the ways a business may leave the 8(a) BD program?


A concern participating in the 8(a) BD program may leave the program by any of the following means:

- (a) Expiration of the program term established pursuant to [§ 124.2](/cfr/13/124.2.md);
- (b) Voluntary withdrawal or voluntary early graduation;
- (c) Graduation pursuant to [§ 124.302](/cfr/13/124.302.md);
- (d) Early graduation pursuant to the provisions of §§ [124.302](/cfr/13/124.302.md) and [124.304](/cfr/13/124.304.md); or
- (e) Termination pursuant to the provisions of §§ [124.303](/cfr/13/124.303.md) and [124.304](/cfr/13/124.304.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[76 FR 8258, Feb. 11, 2011. Redesignated at 85 FR 66186, Oct. 16, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 634(b)(6), 636(j), 637(a), 637(d), 644, 42 U.S.C. 9815; and Pub. L. 99-661, 100 Stat. 3816; Sec. 1207, Pub. L. 100-656, 102 Stat. 3853; Pub. L. 101-37, 103 Stat. 70; Pub. L. 101-574, 104 Stat. 2814; Sec. 8021, Pub. L. 108-87, 117 Stat. 1054; and Sec. 330, Pub. L. 116-260.

### Source

Source: 63 FR 35739, June 30, 1998, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[76 FR 8258, Feb. 11, 2011. Redesignated at 85 FR 66186, Oct. 16, 2020]