- July 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport established a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program to comply with U.S. Department of Transportation regulations.
Airport officials anticipate they will receive federal financial assistance from the Department of Transportation, and as a condition of receiving the assistance, the airport must comply with federal regulations requiring the program.
The department’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program is “designed to remedy ongoing discrimination and the continuing effects of past discrimination in federally assisted highway, transit, airport and highway safety financial assistance transportation contracting markets nationwide,” the U.S. DOT website states. “The primary remedial goal and objective of the DBE program is to level the playing field by providing small businesses owned and controlled by socially…
