Comment on FR Doc # 2026-11765
Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education FundOpposeAdvocacy
Summary: The Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (MBELDEF) opposes the proposed rule to eliminate the 8(a) program's rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage for individually owned firms. They argue the rule is unconstitutional, guts necessary evidentiary requirements, ignores the reliance interests of current participants, and lacks clear administrative standards.
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