Disadvantaged Communities means the top twenty five (25) percent of communities that are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution and socioeconomic characteristics as described by CalEnviroScreen 2.0 Tool.1
Disadvantaged community means a community with an annual median household income that is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income.
Underserved community means any census tract in which, according
Historically Underutilized Business or “HUB” means a minority or women-owned business as defined by Texas Government Code, Chapter 2161.
Disadvantaged Business means a small business concern: (a) which is at least 51 percent owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individual(s) or in the case of any publicly owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individual(s); and (b) whose management and daily business operations are controlled by one or more of the socially and economically disadvantaged individual(s) who own it. It is important to note that the business owners themselves must control the operations of the business. Absentee ownership or title ownership by an individual who does not take an active role in controlling the business is not consistent with eligibility as a DBE under CFR 49 Part 26.71.