; and (2) account for any inflation that occurred in the time period between the final effective date of the rule submitted by the Department of Transportation issued on January 28, 2011, titled Disadvantaged Business Enterprise: Program Improvements (76 Fed. Reg. 5083) and the final effective date of any rule issued pursuant to subsection (a). (c) Additional inflation adjustments The Secretary of Transportation shall issue such regulations as are necessary to update parts 23 and 26 of title 49, United States Code, to establish an interval in accordance with this section to make additional adjustments, after the adjustment under subsection (a), to the net worth caps for determining social and economic disadvantage for inflation. (d) In general Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall update part 124 of title 13, Code of Federal Regulations, with respect to the maximum net worth of an individual claiming economic disadvantage to be equal to the net worth cap established by the Secretary of Transportation under section 6. (e) Adjustment (1) Interval On the first January 1 that is 2 years after the date on which the Administrator makes the update described in subsection (d), and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall adjust the maximum net worth described in subsection (d) for inflation using a metric developed by the Administrator. (2) Metric In developing the metric described in paragraph (1) to account for inflation, the Administrator shall— (A) consider using the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in such metric; (B) solicit and consider the recommendations of the Secretary of Transportation