[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1601.75]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
          CHAPTER XIV--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
 
PART 1601_PROCEDURAL REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart G_FEP Agency Designation Procedures
 
Sec. 1601.75  Certification of designated FEP agencies.

    (a) The Commission may certify designated FEP agencies based upon 
the past, satisfactory performance of those agencies. The effect of such 
certification is that the Commission shall accept the findings and 
resolutions of designated FEP agencies in regard to cases processed 
under contracts with those agencies without individual, case-by-case 
substantial weight review by the Commission except as provided in 
Sec. Sec. 1601.76 and 1601.77 of this part.
    (b) Eligibility criteria for certification of a designated FEP 
agency are as follows:
    (1) That the State or local agency has been a designated FEP agency 
for 4 years;
    (2) That the State or local designated FEP agency's work product has 
been evaluated within the past 12 months by the Systemic Investigations 
and Individual Compliance Programs, Office of Program Operations, and 
found to be in conformance with the Commission's Substantial Weight 
Review Procedures (EEOC Order 916); and
    (3) That the State or local designated FEP agency's findings and 
resolutions pursuant to its contract with the Commission, as provided in 
section 709(b) of title VII, have been accepted by the Commission in at 
least 95% of the cases processed by the FEP agency in the past 12 
months.
    (c) Upon Commission approval of a designated FEP agency for 
certification, it shall notify the agency of its cetification and shall 
effect such certification by issuance and publication of an amendment to 
Sec. 1601.80 of this part.

[46 FR 50367, Oct. 13, 1981, as amended at 54 FR 32061, Aug. 4, 1989. 
Redesignated and amended at 56 FR 9625, Mar. 7, 1991]