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VI of the Act shall be applicable to the program involving the donation of surplus personal property for purposes of Civil Defense (§ 101-6.217(a)).

§ 101-6.204 Discrimination prohibited. § 101-6.204-1 General.

No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program to which this subpart applies.

§ 101-6.204-2 Specific discriminatory actions prohibited.

(a) (1) A recipient under any program to which this subpart applies may not, directly or through contractual or other arrangements, on the ground of race, color, or national origin:

(i) deny an individual any service, financial aid, or other benefit provided under the program;

(ii) provide any service, financial aid, or other benefit to an individual which is different, or is provided in a different manner, from that provided to others under the program;

(iii) subject an individual to segregation or separate treatment in any matter related to his receipt of any service, financial aid, or other benefit under the program;

(iv) Restrict an individual in any way in the enjoyment of any advantage or privilege enjoyed by others receiving any service, financial aid, or other benefit under the program;

(v) Treat an individual differently from others in determining whether he satisfies

any admission, enrollment, quota, eligibility, membership or other requirement or condition which individuals must meet in order to be provided any service, financial aid, or other benefit provided under the program;

(vi) Deny an individual an opportunity to participate in the program through the provision of services or otherwise, or afford him an opportunity to do so which is different from that afforded others under the program (including the opportunity to participate in the program as an employee but only to the extent set forth in paragraph (d) of this § 101-6.204-2).

(2) A recipient, in determining the types of services, financial aid, or other benefits, or facilities which will be provided under any such program, or the class of individuals to whom, or the situations in which, such services, financial aid, other benefits, or facilities will be provided under any such program, or the class of individuals to be afforded an opportunity to participate in any such program, may not, directly or through contractual or other, arrangements, utilize criteria or methods of administration which have the effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination because of their race, color, or national origin, or have the effect of defeating or substantially impairing accomplishment of the objectives of the program as respect individuals of a particular race, color, or national origin.

(b) As used in this § 101-6.204-2 the services, financial aid, or other benefits provided under a program receiving Federal financial assistance shall be deemed to include any service, financial aid, or other benefit provided in or through a facility provided with the aid of Federal financial assistance.

(c) The enumeration of specific forms of prohibited discrimination in this § 101-6.204-2 does not limit the generality of the prohibition in § 1016.204-1.

(d) Where a primary objective of the Federal financial assistance to a program to which this Subpart 101-6.2 applies is to provide employment, a recipient may or not, directly through contractual or other arrangements, subject an individual to discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national origin in its employment practices under such program (including, but not limited to, recruitment or recruitment advertising; employment; lay-off or termination; up-grading, demotion, or transfer; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; selection for training, including apprenticeship, and use of facilities). Under existing law a primary objective of Federal financial assistance under the program covering stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates (§ 101–6.217(q)) is to provide employment.

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(a) Every application for Federal financial assistance to carry out a program to which this Subpart 101-6.2 applies, except a program to which § 1016.205-2 applies, and every application for Federal financial assistance to provide a facility shall, as a condition to its approval and the extension of any Federal financial assistance pursuant to the application, contain or be accompanied by an assurance that the program will be conducted or the facility operated in compliance with all requirements imposed by or pursuant to this Subpart 101-6.2. In the case of an application for Federal financial assistance to provide real property or structures thereon, the assurance shall obligate the recipient, or, in the case of a subsequent transfer, the transferee, for the period during which the real property or structures are used for a purpose for which the Federal financial assistance is extended or for another purpose involving the provision of similar services or benefits. In the case of personal property, the assurance shall obligate the recipient for the period during which he retains ownership or possession of the property. In all other cases the assurance shall obligate the recipient for the period during which Federal financial assistance is extended pursuant to the application. The responsible GSA official shall specify the form of the foregoing assurances for each program and the extent to which like assurances will be required of subgrantees, contractors and subcontractors, transferees, successors in interest, and other participants in the program. Any such assurance shall include provisions which give the United States a right to seek its judicial enforcement.

(b) The assurance required in the case of a transfer of real property shall be inserted in the instrument effecting the transfer of any such land, together with any improvements located thereon,

and shall consist of (1) a condition coupled with a right to be reserved to the agency having the enforcement responsibility (§ 101–6.207–1) to revert title to the property in the event of breach of such nondiscrimination condition, and (2) a covenant running with the land. In the event a transferee of real property proposes to mortgage or otherwise encumber the real property as security for financing construction of new, or improvement of existing, facilities on such property for the purposes for which the property was transferred, the head of the agency having the enforcement responsibility may agree, upon request of the transferee and if necessary to accomplish such financing, and upon such conditions as he deems appropriate, to forbear the exercise of such right to revert title for so long as the lien of such mortgage or other encumbrance remains effective.

(c) The assurance required in the case of a transfer of personal property shall be inserted in the instrument effecting the transfer of the property.

(d) In the case of programs not involving a transfer of property, the assurance required shall be inserted in the agreement executed between the United States and the recipient covering the extension of Federal financial assistance. § 101-6.205-2 Continuing State pro

grams.

Every application by a State or a State agency to carry out a program involving continuing Federal financial assistance to which this regulation applies shall as a condition to its approval and the extension of any Federal financial assistance pursuant to the application (a) contain or be accompanied by a statement that the program is (or, in the case of a new program, will be) conducted in compliance with all requirements imposed by or pursuant to this regulation, or a statement of the extent to which it is not, at the time the statement is made, so conducted, and (b) provide or be accompanied by provision for such methods of administration for the program as are found by the responsible official of the Federal agency concerned to give reasonable assurance that the applicant and all recipients of Federal financial assistance under such program will comply with all requirements im

posed by or pursuant to this regulation, including methods of administration which give reasonable assurance that any noncompliance indicated in the statement under clause (a) will be corrected.

§ 101-6.205-3 Elementary and secondary schools.

The requirements of §§ 101-6.205-1 and 101-6.205-2 with respect to any elementary or secondary school or school system shall be deemed to be satisfied if such school or school system (a) is subject to a final order of a court of the United States for the desegregation of such school or school system, and provides an assurance that it will comply with such order, including any future modification of such order, or (b) submits a plan for the desegregation of such school or school system which the United States Commissioner of Education determines is adequate to accomplish the purposes of the Act and applicable regulations thereunder, and provides reasonable assurance that it will carry out such plan; in any case of continuing Federal financial assistance the Commissioner may reserve the right to redetermine, after such period as may be specified by him, the adequacy of the plan to accomplish the purposes of the Act and this Subpart 101-6.2. In any case in which a final order of a court of the United States for the desegregation of such school or school system is entered after submission of such a plan, such plan shall be revised to conform to such final order, including any future modification of such order.

§ 101-6.205-4 Applicability of assur

ances.

(a) In the case of any application for Federal financial assistance to an institution of higher education, the assurance required by this § 101-6.205 shall extend to admission practices and to all other practices relating to the treatment of students.

(b) The assurance required with respect to an institution of higher education, hospital, or any other institution, insofar as the assurance relates to the institution's practices with respect to admission or other treatment of individuals as students, patients, or clients of the institution or to the opportunity to participate in the provision of services

or other benefits to such individuals, shall be applicable to the entire institution unless the applicant establishes, to the satisfaction of the responsible GSA official, that the institution's practices in designated parts or programs of the institution will in no way affect its practices in the program of the institution for which Federal financial assistance is sought, or the beneficiaries of or participants in such program. If in any such case the assistance sought is for the construction of a facility or part of a facility, the assurance shall in any event extend to the entire facility and to facilities operated in connection therewith.

(c) Where an installation or facility (for example, a public airport, or park or recreation area) is comprised of real property for which application is made under a program, and, in addition, other real property of the applicant, the assurance required under this § 101-6.205 shall be applicable to the entire installation or facility.

§ 101-6.206

Illustrative applications.

The following examples will illustrate the application of the foregoing provisions of this subpart § 101-6.2 to certain programs of GSA (in all cases the discrimination prohibited is discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national origin, prohibited by Title VI of the Act and this Subpart 101-6.2):

(a) In the programs involving the transfer of surplus property for airport, park or recreation, historic monument, wildlife conservation, or street widening purposes (§§ 101-6.217 (c), (d), (e), and (h)), the public generally is entitled to the use of the facility and to receive the services provided by the facility and to facilities operated in connection therewith, without segregation or any other discriminatory practices.

(b) In the program involving the loan of machine tools to nonprofit institutions or training schools (§ 101-6.217 (o)), discrimination by the recipient in the admission of students or trainees or in the treatment of its students or trainees in any aspect of the educational process is prohibited. In the case of an institution of higher education, the prohibition applies to the entire institution except as provided in paragraph (b) of § 101-6.205.4. In the case of elementary

or secondary schools, the prohibition applies to all elementary and secondary schools of the recipient school district, consistent with § 101-6.205-3. In this and other illustrations the prohibition of discrimination in the treatment of students or trainees includes the prohibition of discrimination among the students or trainees in the availability or use of any academic, dormitory, eating, recreational, or other facilities of the recipient.

(c) In the programs involving the donation of personal property to public bodies or the American National Red Cross (§§ 101-6.217 (f) and (j)), discrimination in the selection or treatment of individuals to receive or receiving the benefits or services of the program is prohibited.

(d) In the program involving the donation of personal property to eleemosynary institutions (§ 101-6.217(1)), the assurance will apply to applicants for admission, patients, interns, residents, student nurses, and other trainees, and to the privilege of physicians, dentists, and other professionally qualified persons to practice in the institution, and will apply to the entire institution and to facilities operated in connection therewith, subject to the provisions of S$ 101-6.205-4(b).

(e) In the programs involving the allotment of space by GSA to Federal Credit Unions, without charge for rent or services, and the provision of free space and utilities for vending stands operated by blind persons (§§ 101-6.217 (i) and (k)), discrimination by segregation or otherwise in providing benefits or services is prohibited.

(f) In the program involving grants to State and local agencies and to nonprofit organizations and institutions for the collecting, describing, preserving, and compiling and publishing of documentary sources significant to the history of the United States (§ 101–6.217(n)), discrimination by the recipient in the selection of students or other participants in the program, and, with respect to educational institutions, in the admission or treatment of students, is prohibited.

(g) In the program involving stabilization payments to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates (§ 101-6.217(q)), discrimination against applicants for employment or employees is prohibited.

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§ 101-6.207-1 Agencies responsible.

The responsibility for determining and enforcing compliance with this Subpart 101-6.2, including the assurances in the transfer instruments referred to in § 1016.205-1, is as follows:

(1) The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency with respect to surplus real or personal property disposed of for public airport purposes (§ 101-6.217(c)).

(2) The Secretary of Interior in the case of surplus real property, including improvements, disposed of for use as a public park, public recreation area, or historic monument (§ 101–6.217(d)).

(3) The Administrator of General Services in the case of all other programs to which this Subpart 101–6.2 applies. § 101-6.207-2 Regulations applicable.

The regulations issued pursuant to Title VI of the Act by the head of each agency named in paragraph (a) of this § 101-6.207 shall be applicable to that agency's compliance and enforcement activities.

§ 101-6.207-3 Agency instructions and reports.

Notwithstanding paragraphs (b) and (c) of § 101-6.203, each agency, other than GSA, involved in the administration of the programs described in §§ 1016.217 (a) through (d) shall furnish to GSA copies of all instructions and changes therein issued to implement, with respect to such programs, the regulations issued by such agency pursuant to Title VI of the Act. In addition, each such agency shall promptly advise GSA of any sanctions imposed or removed by such agency with respect to said programs.

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Each responsible GSA official shall to the fullest extent practicable seek the cooperation of recipients in obtaining compliance with this Subpart 101-6.2 and shall provide assistance and guidance to recipients to help them comply voluntarily with this subpart.

§ 101-6.209-2 Compliance reports.

Each recipient shall keep such records and submit to the responsible GSA official or his designee timely, complete and accurate compliance reports at such times, and in such form and containing such information, as the responsible GSA official or his designee may determine to be necessary to enable him to ascertain whether the recipient has complied or is complying with this Subpart 101-6.2. In the case of any program under which a primary recipient extends Federal financial assistance to any other recipient, such other recipient shall also submit such compliance reports to the primary recipient as may be necessary to enable the primary recipient to carry out its obligations under this subpart.

§ 101-6.209-3 Access to sources of information.

Each recipient shall permit access by the responsible GSA official or his designee during normal business hours to such of its books, records, accounts, and other sources of information, and its facilities as may be pertinent to ascertain compliance with this subpart. Where any information required of a recipient is in the exclusive possession of any other agency, institution or person and this agency, institution or person shall fail or refuse to furnish this information, the recipient shall so certify in its report and shall set forth what efforts it has made to obtain the information.

§ 101-6.209-4 Information to beneficiaries and participants.

Each recipient shall make available to participants, beneficiaries, and other interested persons such information regarding the provisions of this Subpart 101-6.2 and its applicability to the program under which the recipient receives

Federal financial assistance, and make such information available to them in such manner, as the responsible GSA official finds necessary to apprise such persons of the protections against discrimination assured them by the Act and this Subpart 101-6.2.

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§ 101-6.210-3 Investigations.

The responsible GSA official or his designee will make a prompt investigation whenever a compliance review, report, complaint, or any other information indicates a possible failure to comply with this Subpart 101-6.2. The investigation should include, where appropriate, a review of the pertinent practices and policies of the recipient, the circumstances under which the possible noncompliance with this subpart occurred, and other factors relevant to a determination as to whether the recipient has failed to comply with this subpart.

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