PURPOSE: This rule describes Missouri’s Unified Certification Program (UCP) for USDOT DBE certification when that program has been established by MoDOT with other USDOT recipients in Missouri; and until then, to state that no such UCP program currently exists in Missouri. (1) Under the mandates of 49 CFR section 26.81, within several years Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and all other United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) funding recipients in Missouri must participate in a Unified Certification Program (UCP). When the UCP is established and operational, a firm will be required to apply for certification with only one entity, and if that firm is certified by that one entity, the firm’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) certification will be honored by all other USDOT funding recipients in Missouri. However, such a UCP program does not currently exist in and for Missouri.

1. (2) When a Missouri UCP program is established, this regulation will be amended to describe how the UCP DBE certification process applies to and governs MoDOT’s DBE certification process. This regulation will also be amended to adopt any requirements necessary to conform and comply to the new state UCP program for DBE certification.

AUTHORITY: section 226.150, RSMo 1994*; Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations part 26; section 1101(b) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), Public Law 105-178, 112 Stat. 107, 113; and MoDOT’s approved DBE Program submittals to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Emergency rule filed May 10, 2000, effective May 20, 2000, expired Nov. 6, 2000. Original rule filed May 10, 2000, effective Nov. 30, 2000. *Original authority: 226.150, RSMo 1939, amended 1977.