ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (OCTA) (31) - 2015

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AGREEMENT NO. C -6-3632 EXHIBIT D using strictly race neutral means on its FTA- assisted contracts, The Authority reinstates the use of contract goals and good faith efforts. Meeting the contract - specific goal by committing to utilize DBEs or documenting a bona fide good faith effort to do so, is a condition of award. Additionally, contract- specific goals are now specifically targeted at DBEs (DBEs owned and controlled by Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian - Pacific Americans, Native Americans, Asian - Pacific Americans, Sub - Continent Asian Americans, and Women). In the event of a substitution, a DBE must be substituted with another DBE or documented adequate good faith efforts to do so must be made, in order to meet the contract goal and DBE contract requirements. I. Definitions The following definitions apply to the terms used in these provisions 1. "Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)" means a small business concern: (a) which is at least 51 percent owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals or, in the case of any publicly -owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; and (b) whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of the socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who own it. 2. "Small Business Concern" means a small business as defined pursuant to Section 3 of the Small Business Act and relevant regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, except that a small business concern must not include any concern or group of concerns controlled by the same socially and economically disadvantaged individual or individuals which has annual average gross receipts in excess of $19.57 million over the previous three fiscal years. 3. "Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals" means those individuals who are citizens of the United States (or lawfully admitted permanent residents) and who are Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian - Pacific Americans, or Asian - Indian Americans, women and any other minorities or individuals found to be disadvantaged by the Small Business Administration pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, or by the Authority pursuant to 49 CFR part 26.65. Members of the following groups are presumed to be socially and economically disadvantaged: A. 'Black Americans," which includes persons having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa; B. "Hispanic Americans," which includes persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race; C. "Native Americans," which includes persons who are American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians; D. "Asian- Pacific Americans," which includes persons whose origins are from Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific, and the Northern Marianas; Orange County Transportation Authority 5 Revised: W0612014