File a Title VI Complaint with the FTA
FTA investigates complaints on the basis of intentional discrimination or on the basis of disperate impact discrimination, where a neutral policy or practice has the effect of disproportionately excluding or adversely affecting minority beneficiaries or other protected individuals and the recipient's practice lacks a substantial legitimate justification.
Under the Executive Order on Environmental Justice and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Order to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, a member of the public, a group of people, or their representatives can file an administrative complaint against a recipient of financial assistance from FTA, a transportation provider, a transportation-related entity, or FTA itself alleging discrimination and/or adverse environmental effects, including social and economic effects, against a specific minority or low income community or population group, due to a project or activity funded or carried out by DOT.
Individuals and organizations may file a complaint by completing the attached Title VI Complaint Form. Complaints must be signed, include contact information, and mailed to:
Federal Transit Administration Office of Civil Rights
Attention: Title VI Program Coordinator
East Building, 5th Floor - TCR
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20590
FTA strives to promptly investigate the complaints received. At the conclusion of our investigation we will transmit a letter of finding to the complainant and the recipient. If our investiagation determines that the recipient is not in violation of Title VI, our letters will explain why the recipient was found in compliance. If we determine that a recipient is in violation of Title VI, our letters will document the violation and instruct the recipient to take action to come into compliance.
No one may intimidate, threaten, coerce, or engage in other discriminatory conduct against anyone because he or she has either filed a complaint to secure rights protected by the nondiscrimination statutes we enforce. Any individual alleging such harassment or intimidation may file a complaint with the Federal Transit Administration. We would investigate such a complaint.
