[CPEO-BIF] Minority firms getting few Katrina pacts

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

Minority firms getting few Katrina pacts

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press 
Business Week Online
October 4, 2005

Minority-owned businesses say they're paying the price for the decision
by Congress and the Bush administration to waive certain rules for
Hurricane Katrina recovery contracts.

About 1.5 percent of the $1.6 billion awarded by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency has gone to minority businesses, less than a third of
the 5 percent normally required.

On Tuesday, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, and Rep. Donald A. Manzullo,
R-Ill., asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate
whether small and minority-owned businesses have been given a fair
opportunity to compete for Katrina contracts.

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For the entire article, go to
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8D1CE901.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db
It was picked up by numerous other publications, as well.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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