---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 26.43"
title: "49"
number: "26.43"
heading: "Can recipients use set-asides or quotas as part of this program?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/26.43"
---

# §26.43. Can recipients use set-asides or quotas as part of this program?

- (a) **You are not permitted to use quotas for DBEs on DOT-assisted contracts subject to this part.**
- (b) You may not set-aside contracts for DBEs on DOT-assisted contracts subject to this part, except that, in limited and extreme circumstances, you may use set-asides when no other method could be reasonably expected to redress egregious instances of discrimination.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 304 and 324; 42 U.S.C. 2000d, et seq.; 49 U.S.C. 47113, 47123; Sec. 1101(b), Pub. L. 114-94, 129 Stat. 1312, 1324 (23 U.S.C. 101 note); Sec. 150, Pub. L. 115-254, 132 Stat. 3215 (23 U.S.C. 101 note); Pub. L. 117-58, 135 Stat. 429 (23 U.S.C. 101 note).

### Source

Source: 64 FR 5126, Feb. 2, 1999, unless otherwise noted.