[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR15.5]

[Page 363]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 15_NONDISCRIMINATION--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart A_Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs of the 
 Department of Agriculture_Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights 
                               Act of 1964
 
Sec. 15.5  Compliance.

    (a) Cooperation and assistance. Each Agency shall to the fullest 
extent practicable seek the cooperation of recipients in obtaining 
compliance with the regulations and this part and shall provide 
assistance and guidance to recipients to help them comply voluntarily 
with the regulations in this part. As a normal part of the 
administration of Federal financial assistance covered by the 
regulations in this part, designated personnel will in their reviews and 
other activities or as specifically directed by the Agency, review the 
activities of recipients to determine whether they are complying with 
the regulations in this part. Reports by such personnel shall include 
statements regarding compliance and instances, if any, of noncompliance. 
In the event of noncompliance, the Agency shall seek to secure voluntary 
compliance by all appropriate means.
    (b) Compliance reports. Each recipient shall keep such records and 
submit to the Agency timely, complete and accurate compliance reports at 
such times, and in such form and containing such information, as the 
Agency may determine to be necessary to ascertain whether the recipient 
has complied or is complying with the regulations in this part. In the 
case in 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 the 
regulations in this part. In general, recipients should have available 
for the Agency racial and ethnic data showing the extent to which 
members of minority groups are beneficiaries of federally assisted 
programs.
    (c) Access to sources of information. Each recipient shall permit 
access by authorized employees of this Department 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 the regulations in this part. 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.
    (d) Information to beneficiaries and participants. Each recipient 
shall make available to participants, beneficiaries, and other 
interested persons such information regarding the provisions of the 
regulations in this part and their applicability to the program for 
Federal statutes, authorities, or other means by which Federal financial 
assistance is extended and which the recipient receives Federal 
financial assistance, and make such information available to them in 
such manner, as the Department or its Agencies finds necessary to 
apprise such persons of the protections against discrimination assured 
them by the Act and the regulations in this part.

[29 FR 16274, Dec. 4, 1964, as amended at 29 FR 16966, Dec. 11, 1964; 38 
FR 17926, July 5, 1973; 68 FR 51341, Aug. 26, 2003]