---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 23.35"
title: "49"
number: "23.35"
heading: "What role do business development and mentor-protégé programs have in the DBE program?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/23.35"
---

# §23.35. What role do business development and mentor-protégé programs have in the DBE program?

- (a) **An owner whose PNW exceeds $2,047,000 is not presumed economically disadvantaged.**
- (b) The Department will adjust the PNW cap by May 9, 2027 by multiplying $1,600,000 by the growth in total household net worth since 2019 as described by “Financial Accounts of the United States: Balance Sheet of Households (Supplementary Table B.101.h)” produced by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/), and normalized by the total number of households as collected by the Census in “Families and Living Arrangements” (https://www.census.gov/topics/families/families-and-households.html) to account for population growth. The Department will adjust the PNW cap every 3 years on the anniversary of the adjustment date described in this section. The Department will post the adjustments on the Departmental Office of Civil Rights' web page, available at https://www.Transportation.gov/DBEPNW. Each such adjustment will become the currently applicable PNW limit for purposes of this regulation.
- (c) The Department will use formula 1 to this [paragraph (c)](#c) to adjust the PNW limit:

## Notes

### Amendments

[89 FR 55088, July 3, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 47107 and 47113; 42 U.S.C. 2000d; 49 U.S.C. 322; E.O. 12138, 44 FR 29637, 3 CFR, 1979 Comp., p. 393.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 14508, Mar. 22, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[89 FR 55088, July 3, 2024]