* § 1265-b. Metropolitan transportation authority small business\nmentoring program. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the\ncontext requires otherwise: (a) "authority" means the metropolitan\ntransportation authority and its subsidiaries consisting of the Long\nIsland rail road company, Metro-North commuter railroad company,\nmetropolitan suburban bus authority, Staten Island rapid transit\noperating authority, MTA bus, MTA capital construction company, and\nfirst mutual transportation assurance company, and its affiliates\nconsisting of the New York City transit authority, triborough bridge and\ntunnel authority, and Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating\nauthority;\n (b) "chairman" means the chairman of the authority and its\nsubsidiaries and affiliates;\n (c) "small business" means a business in the construction trades which\n(i) is independently owned and operated; (ii) has annual revenues not\nexceeding a fiscal limitation of ten million dollars or such lesser\namount as established by the authority pursuant to these provisions; and\n(iii) meets additional criteria as otherwise established by the chairman\nin consultation with the members of the MTA small business mentoring\nprogram advisory committee. The chair of the committee shall be the\nchief diversity officer of the MTA. The authority shall establish a\ndetailed definition in general and specific to different segments of the\nconstruction industry to the extent necessary to reflect differing\ncharacteristics of such segments based on the criteria used by the\nUnited States small business administration for loans to small\nbusinesses as set forth in Sections 121.301 through 121.305, or for\nawarding government procurements as set forth in Sections 121.401\nthrough 121.413, of Subpart A of Part 121 of Chapter I of Title 13 of\nthe Code of Federal Regulations as amended, and such other criteria as\ndetermined by the authority;\n (d) "small business mentoring program" is a program established by the\nauthority pursuant to these provisions to provide small businesses\naccepted into the program with the opportunity:\n (i) for up to five years, to compete for and, where awarded, to\nperform certain authority public work contracts to be designated by the\nauthority for inclusion in this program under this subparagraph, with\nthe assistance of an authority-provided mentor, which shall be a firm\ncompetitively selected by the authority that has extensive construction\nmanagement and mentoring experience, with the mentor to provide the\nsmall business with advice and assistance in competing for and managing\nauthority public work contracts; and\n (ii) for a small business mentoring program participant which the\nauthority has determined has successfully completed the program under\nsubparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for up to five additional years, (A)\nadditional opportunities to compete with other designated small\nbusinesses in the program for certain public work contracts to be\ndesignated for inclusion under this subparagraph and, where awarded, to\nperform such authority public work contracts, with the further\nassistance of an authority-provided mentor, which shall be a firm\ncompetitively selected by the authority that has extensive construction\nmanagement and mentoring experience, with the mentor to provide the\nsmall business with advice and technical assistance in competing for and\nmanaging authority public work contracts, and (B) authority-provided\nassistance, as determined by the authority, for such a small business to\nobtain bonding for public work contracts that are competitively awarded\npursuant to provisions of law other than this section.\n (e) "small business mentoring program contract" means a non-federally\nfunded, unless authorized by the applicable federal funding agency,\nauthority public work contract designated by the authority, in an\nestimated amount of not more than one million five hundred thousand\ndollars for c
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