[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 15CFR8.7]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
PART 8--NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY-ASSISTED PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE--EFFECTUATION OF TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B--General Compliance
 
Sec. 8.7  Cooperation, compliance reports and reviews and access to records.


    (a) Cooperation and assistance. Each responsible Department official 
shall to the fullest extent practicable seek the cooperation of 
recipients and other parties subject to this part in obtaining 
compliance with this part and shall provide assistance and guidance to 
recipients and other parties to help them comply voluntarily with this 
part.
    (b) Compliance reports. Each recipient and other party subject to 
this part shall keep such records and submit to the responsible 
Department official timely, complete, and accurate compliance reports at 
such times and in such form and containing such information as the 
responsible Department official may determine to be necessary to enable 
him to ascertain whether the recipient or such other party has complied 
or is complying with this part. In general, recipients should have 
available for the department racial and ethnic data showing the extent 
to which members of minority groups are beneficiaries of federally 
assisted programs. In the case of any program under which a primary 
recipient extends Federal financial assistance to any other recipient, 
or under which a recipient is obligated to obtain or to cooperate in 
obtaining the compliance of other parties subject to this part, such 
other recipients or other parties shall also submit such compliance 
reports to the primary recipient or recipients as may be necessary to 
enable them to carry out their obligations under this part.
    (c) Access to sources of information. Each recipient or other party 
subject to this part shall permit access by the responsible Department 
official or his designee 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 this part. 
Where any information required of a recipient or other party is in the 
exclusive possession of another who fails or refuses to furnish this 
information, the recipient or other party 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 or 
other party subject to this part shall make available to participants, 
beneficiaries, and other interested persons such information regarding 
the provisions of this part and its applicability to the program under 
which the recipient receives Federal financial assistance, and make such 
information available to them in such manner as this part and the 
responsible Department official finds necessary to apprise such persons 
of the protections against discrimination assured them by the Act and 
this part.
    (e) Compliance review. The responsible Department official or his 
designee shall from time to time review the practices of recipients and 
other parties subject to this part to determine whether they are 
complying with this part.