[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR7.10]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 7--NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY-ASSISTED PROGRAMS (FEMA REG. 5)--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart A--Nondiscrimination in FEMA Programs--General
 
Sec. 7.10  Compliance information.

    (a) Cooperation and assistance. The responsible official in the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall to the fullest extent 
practicable seek the cooperation of recipients in obtaining compliance 
with this regulation and shall provide assistance and guidance to 
recipients to help them comply voluntarily with this regulation.
    (b) Compliance reports. Each recipient shall keep such records and 
submit to the responsible agency official or his designee timely, 
complete, and accurate compliance reports at such times, and in such 
form and containing such information, as the responsible agency official 
or his designee may determine to be necessary to enable him to ascertain 
whether the recipient has complied or is complying with this regulation. 
In the case of any program under 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 this regulation.
    (c) Access to sources of information. Each recipient shall permit 
access by the responsible agency 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 regulation. 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 this 
regulation 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 the responsible agency 
official finds necessary to apprise such persons of the protection

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against discrimination assured them by the Act and this regulation.