---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 23.59"
title: "49"
number: "23.59"
heading: "What is the role of the statutory 10 percent goal in the ACDBE program?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/23.59"
---

# §23.59. What is the role of the statutory 10 percent goal in the ACDBE program?

- (a) The statute authorizing the ACDBE program provides that, except to the extent the Secretary determines otherwise, not less than 10 percent of concession businesses are to be ACDBEs.
- (b) This 10 percent goal is an aspirational goal at the national level, which the Department uses as a tool in evaluating and monitoring ACDBEs' opportunities to participate in airport concessions.
- (c) The national 10 percent aspirational goal does not authorize or require recipients to set overall or concession-specific goals at the 10 percent level, or any other particular level, or to take any special administrative steps if their goals are above or below 10 percent.

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 14508, Mar. 22, 2005, as amended at 89 FR 24962, Apr. 9, 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

[70 FR 14508, Mar. 22, 2005, as amended at 89 FR 24962, Apr. 9, 2024]