[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR265.19]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                             TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 265--NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED RAILROAD PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart C--Compliance
 
Sec. 265.19  Compliance information.


    (a) Each recipient and contractor shall keep such records and submit 
to the Administrator complete and accurate reports, at such times, and 
in such form, and containing such information as the Administrator may 
determine to be necessary to enable him to ascertain whether the 
recipient or contractor has complied or is complying with this part. 
These records shall show in connection with the project, program or 
activity funded in whole or in part through financial assistance under 
the Rail Acts:
    (1) Procedures which have been adopted to comply with the policies 
set forth in this part, including the establishment of a source list of 
MBEs;
    (2) Specific efforts to identify and award contracts to MBEs; and
    (3) Awards to MBEs on the source list required in paragraph (a)(1) 
of this section.
    (b) Each recipient and contractor shall permit access by the 
Administrator during normal business hours to such of its books, 
records, accounts and other sources of information and its facilities as 
may in the opinion of the Administrator be necessary to ascertain 
compliance with this part.
    (c) Each recipient and contractor shall make available to 
participants, beneficiaries and other interested persons, such 
information regarding the provisions of this part and the applicability 
to the program, project or activity under which the recipient received 
financial assistance from the Rail Acts or under which the contractor is 
awarded a contract and make such information available to them in such 
manner as the Administrator finds necessary to apprise such persons of 
the protections against discrimination assured them by the Act and this 
part.