General Workshop Session II

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General Workshop Session II
FAA DBE Compliance Update
20th Annual Airports Economic Opportunity and
Policy Forum Orlando, FL December 9, 2013
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Overview

• Alignment/Responsibilities
• Training
• IG Audit re new DBEs
• Compliance Reviews
• Best Practices
• FAA dbE-Connect
• Certification Training
• Staff List
• Questions?

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Alignment

• Policy
• National responsibility
• Based in DC
• Staff in Headquarters
• Compliance
• National responsibility
• Based in Los Angeles
• Staff nationwide (some virtual)

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General Responsibilities

• 7 Staff for 1,300 airports
• Overall goals, accomplishments, compliance
  reviews oversight, complaint investigations,
  training, technical assistance
• Joint Venture arrangements, Long-Term and
  Exclusive leases, analysis of shortfalls in
  overall goals, Small Business Elements,
  Stakeholder Meetings, and DBE Certification
  training program

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Training

• Participate with trade associations
• Participate with FAA Airports
• Stand-alone workshops
• FAA National Civil Rights Conference

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OIG Audit of New DBEs

• IN GENERAL
• For FY 13 through 15, DOT OIG shall submit to
  Congress a report on the number of new small
  business concerns owned and controlled by
  socially and economically disadvantaged
  individuals, including those owned by veterans

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OIG Audit of New DBEs (cont.)

• THE REPORT SHALL INCLUDE
• List of the top 25 and bottom 25 large and medium
  hub airports
• Results of an assessment on the reasons why the
  top airports have been successful and
• Recommendations on methods for other airports to
  achieve results similar to those of the top
  airports.

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OIG Audit of New DBEs - Status

• FAA has provided data technical assistance
• OIG making substantial progress
• Airport contacts, in-depth interviews
• Looking for common themes regarding barriers and
  best practices

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OIG - DBE Fraud Indicators

• Minority owner lacking background, expertise, or
  equipment to perform subcontract work
• Employees shuttling back and forth between prime
  contractor and minority-owned business payrolls
• Business names on equipment and vehicles covered
  with paint or magnetic signs
• Orders and payment for necessary supplies made by
  individuals not employed by minority-owned
  business
• Prime contractor facilitated purchase of
  minority-owned business
• Minority-owned business owner never present at
  job site
• Prime contractor always uses the same
  minority-owned business

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Contact OIG

• OIG Hotline - available 24 hours a day, 7 days a
  week online complaint form http//www.oig.dot.gov
  /hotline
• telephone [phone]
• fax [phone]
• e-mail hotline_at_oig.dot.gov
• mail USDOT Inspector General, P.O. Box 708,
  Fredericksburg, VA 22404-0708

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Compliance Reviews

• Typically conducted onsite
• Part 23 26 regulatory requirements
• Individually tailored technical assistance
• Not just benefit individual airport, but all
  airports, by gathering best practices and common
  misunderstanding.

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FAA dbE-Connect

• Automate all the elements
  of the DBE and ACDBE programs.
• Components accessible to DBEs, FAA staff, and
  soon airport DBELOs.
• Currently includes airport record, goals,
  compliance reviews, complaints, document upload
  capabilities and unique report generation.  

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FAA dbE-Connect (cont.)

• Next phase - reporting mechanism for the annual
  accomplishment reports accessible to airports,
  providing a new and improved DOORS.
• Future phase - creation of key documents from
  templates and create automatic system flags and
  alerts.

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FAA dbE-Connect (cont.)

• Also contains a listing of airport DBE
  opportunities and a national directory of nearly
  27,000 certified businesses.
• Links to other DBE program information
• https//faa.dbesystem.com/

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Best Practices

• Ongoing FAA project to gather good ideas
  clarify common misunderstandings.
• Final draft under review by USDOT
• Please contact for consideration

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Certification Training

• FAA established 2/15/13
• Online with verbatim text voice-over
• 4 live sessions, technical assistance, refresher
  training, advanced DBELO training
• Stats 450 completed 90 in progress
• Next transfer to USDOT

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DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance Team DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance Team DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance Team DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance Team DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance Team

Staff Name   Phone Email Mailing Address
Michael FreilichDirector, Western Pacific Region and DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance   310-725-3948 michael.freilich_at_faa.gov FAA Western-Pacific Regional OfficeAWP-9, P.O Box 92007Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007
Cory NelsonEqual Opportunity Assistant   310-725-3943 cory.nelson_at_faa.gov FAA Western-Pacific Regional OfficeAWP-9, P.O Box 92007Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007
Gene RothTeam Lead, DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance   404-305-5256 gene.e.roth_at_faa.gov FAA Southern Regional Office (ASO-9)1701 Columbia Ave.College Park, GA 30337
         
Regional DBE/ACDBE Program Compliance Team Specialists   Phone Email Mailing Address
Alaskan Region- Alaska Sophia Soler 718-553-3443 sophia.soler_at_faa.gov FAA Eastern Regional Office (ACT-009)159-30 Rockaway Blvd.Jamaica, NY 11434
Central Region- Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Patricia Wright 310-725-3955 patricia.wright_at_faa.gov FAA Western-Pacific Regional OfficeAWP-9, P.O Box 92007Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007
Eastern Region- Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia Keturah Pristell 404-305-7392 keturah.pristell_at_faa.gov FAA Southern Regional Office (ASO-9)1701 Columbia Ave., C190, Stop 151College Park, GA 30334
Great Lakes Region- Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin Nancy Cibic 847-294-7182 nancy.cibic_at_faa.gov FAA Great Lakes Regional Office 2300 E. Devon Avenue Rm. 440 (AGL-9) Des Plaines, IL 60018
New England Region- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Keturah Pristell 404-305-7392 keturah.pristell_at_faa.gov FAA Southern Regional Office (ASO-9)1701 Columbia Ave., C190, Stop 151College Park, GA 30334
Northwest Mountain Region- Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming Ricky Watson 310-725-3940 ricky.watson_at_faa.gov FAA Western-Pacific Regional OfficeAWP-9, P.O Box 92007Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007
Southern Region- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Gene Roth 404-305-5256 gene.e.roth_at_faa.gov FAA Southern Regional Office (ASO-9)1701 Columbia Ave.College Park, GA 30337
Southwest Region- Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas Dolores Leyva 310-725-3939 dolores.leyva_at_faa.gov FAA Western-Pacific Regional OfficeAWP-9, P.O Box 92007Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007
Western-Pacific Region- American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada Patricia Wright 310-725-3955 patricia.wright_at_faa.gov FAA Western-Pacific Regional OfficeAWP-9, P.O Box 92007Los Angeles, CA 90009-2007

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Questions