REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION PROCEDURES

12  INFORMATION TRACKING AND REPORTING

The Mission Area/Agency DEPM’s are responsible for maintaining records, tracking and reporting all reasonable accommodation decisions. They shall maintain these records for the longer of the employee’s tenure with USDA or five years. The Mission Area/Agency DEPM will prepare annually a report to the Departmental Disability Employment Program Manager. The report will contain the following information, presented in aggregate:

• the number of reasonable accommodations, by type, that have been requested in the application process and whether those requests have been granted or denied;
• the jobs (occupational series, grade level, and agency component) for which reasonable accommodations have been requested;
• the types of reasonable accommodations that have been requested for each of those jobs;
• the number of reasonable accommodations, by type, for each job that have been approved, and the number of accommodations, by type, that have been denied;
• the number of requests for reasonable accommodations, by type, that relate to the benefits or privileges of employment, and whether those requests have been granted or denied;
• the reasons for denial of requests for reasonable accommodation;
• the amount of time taken to process each request for reasonable accommodation; and,
• the sources of technical assistance that have been consulted in trying to identify possible reasonable accommodations.

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