[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR230.103]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 230--EXTERNAL PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart A--Equal Employment Opportunity on Federal and Federal-Aid 
         Construction Contracts (Including Supportive Services)
 
Sec. 230.103  Definitions.

    For purposes of this subpart--
    Administrator means the Federal Highway Administrator.
    Areawide Plan means an affirmative action plan to increase minority 
utilization of crafts in a specified geographical area pursuant to 
Executive Order 11246, and taking the form of either a ``Hometown'' or 
an ``Imposed'' plan.
    Bid conditions means contract requirements which have been issued by 
OFCC for purposes of implementing a Hometown Plan.
    Division Administrator means the chief Federal Highway 
Administration (FHWA) official assigned to conduct FHWA business in a 
particular State, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico.
    Division Equal Opportunity Officer means an individual with staff 
level responsibilities and necessary authority by which to operate as an 
Equal Opportunity Officer in a Division office. Normally the Equal 
Opportunity Officer will be a full-time civil rights specialist serving 
as staff assistant to the Division Administrator.
    Hometown Plan means a voluntary areawide plan which was developed by 
representatives of affected groups (usually labor unions, minority 
organizations, and contractors), and subsequently approved by the Office 
of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC), for purposes of implementing the 
equal employment opportunity requirements pursuant to Executive Order 
11246, as amended.
    Imposed Plan means an affirmative action requirement for a specified 
geographical area made mandatory by OFCC and, in some areas, by the 
courts.
    Journeyman means a person who is capable of performing all the 
duties within a given job classification or craft.
    State highway agency means that department, commission, board, or 
official of any State charged by its laws with the responsibility for 
highway construction. The term State should be considered equivalent to 
State highway agency.

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    Suggested minimum annual training goals means goals which have been 
assigned to each State highway agency annually for the purpose of 
specifying training positions on selected Federal-aid highway 
construction projects.
    Supportive services means those services provided in connection with 
approved on-the-job training programs for highway construction workers 
and highway contractors which are designed to increase the overall 
effectiveness of training programs through the performance of functions 
determined to be necessary in connection with such programs, but which 
are not generally considered as comprising part of actual on-the-job 
craft training.
    Trainee means a person who received on-the-job training, whether 
through an apprenticeship program or other programs approved or accepted 
by the FHWA.

[40 FR 28053, July 3, 1975, as amended at 41 FR 3080, Jan. 21, 1976]