PILOT MENTOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM.

SEC. 807. PILOT MENTOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM. (a) Requirement.—Within 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall publish in the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation the Department of Defense policy for the pilot Mentor-Protege Program and the regulations, directives, and administrative guidance pertaining to such program as such policy, regulations, directives, and administrative guidance existed on December 6, 1991. Proposed modifications to that policy and any amendments of the matters published pursuant to the preceding sentence that are proposed in order to implement any of the amendments made by this section shall be published for public comment within 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall be published in final form within 120 days after such date. (b) Relationship to Small Business Act.—(1) Subsection (h) of section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note) is amended to read as follows: “(h) Relationship to Small Business Act.—(1) For purposes of the Small Business Act, no determination of affiliation or control (either direct or indirect) may be found between a protege firm and its mentor firm on the basis that the mentor firm has agreed to furnish (or has furnished) to its protege firm pursuant to a mentor-protege agreement any form of developmental assistance described in subsection (f). “(2) Notwithstanding section 8 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637), the Small Business Administration may not determine a disadvantaged small business concern to be ineligible to receive any assistance authorized under the Small Business Act on the basis that such business concern has participated in the Mentor-Protege Program or has received assistance pursuant to any developmental assistance agreement authorized under such program. 106 STAT. 2449 “(3) The Small Business Administration may not require a firm that is entering into, or has entered into, an agreement under subsection (e) as a protege firm to submit the agreement, or any other document required by the Secretary of Defense in the administration of the Mentor-Protege Program, to the Small Business Administration for review, approval, or any other purpose.”. (2) The amendment made by this subsection shall take effect as of November 5, 1990. (c) Funding.—Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1993 pursuant to title I of this Act, $55,000,000 shall be available for the pilot Mentor-Protege Program established pursuant to section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note).