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This action rescinds the regulations for loans for minority business enterprises seeking DOE contracts and assistance, because the regulations use race in a manner that was found to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181, 230 (2023), the Supreme Court held that the admissions programs of two universities violated the Equal Protection Clause. The loan programs governed by 10 CFR 800 bear similar characteristics to the unconstitutional admissions programs: lacking sufficiently focused and measurable objectives justifying the use of race, employing race in a negative manner, and not containing an end point for the use of race as a criterion.