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    <description>Daily Publications of Meetings and Rules Changes for the Federal Government</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, Dec 2 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Solicitation of Applications for the Minority Business Enterprise  Center (MBEC) Program]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-10-07-E8-23739</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ In accordance with 15 U.S.C. Section 1512 and Executive Order 
11625, the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is soliciting 
competitive applications from organizations to operate a Minority 
Business Enterprise Center (MBEC) in Houston, TX. The MBEC operates 
through the use of business consultants and provides a range of 
business consulting and technical assistance services directly to 
eligible minorityowned businesses in the HoustonSugar LandBaytown, 
Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Responsibility for ensuring 
that applications in response to this competitive solicitation are 
complete and received by MBDA on time is the sole responsibility of the 
applicant. Applications submitted must be to operate a MBEC and to 
provide business consultation services to eligible clients. 
Applications that do not meet these requirements will be rejected. This 
is not a grant program to help start or to further an individual 
business.
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  <pubDate>Tue, Oct 7 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Extension of the Award Period for Certain Native American  Business Enterprise Centers]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-08-11-E8-18498</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is publishing 
this notice to allow for up to a twelve (12) month funded extension, on 
a noncompetitive basis, of the overall award periods for those Native 
American Business Enterprise Centers (NABECs) identified in this 
notice. MBDA is taking this action to allow for continued program 
delivery by the incumbent NABECs operators while MBDA completes the 
competitive solicitation and award processes for the next three (3) 
year award period for these projects.
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  <guid>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2008-08-11-E8-18498</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, Aug 11 2008 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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