[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1206.1-3]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER XII--CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
 
PART 1206--GRANTS AND CONTRACTS--SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION AND DENIAL OF APPLICATION FOR REFUNDING--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart A--Suspension and Termination of Assistance
 
Sec. 1206.1-3  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart--
    (a) The terms ``ACTION'' or ``ACTION Agency'' include each Regional 
Office.
    (b) The term Director means the Director of the ACTION Agency.
    (c) The term responsible ACTION official means the Director and 
Deputy Director of ACTION, appropriate Regional Director and any ACTION 
headquarters or regional office official who is authorized to make the 
grant of assistance in question. In addition to the foregoing officials, 
in the case of the suspension proceedings described in Sec. 1206.1-4, 
the term ``responsible ACTION official'' shall also include a designee 
of an ACTION official who is authorized to make the grant of assistance 
in question.

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    (d) The term assistance means assistance under titles I, II and III 
of the Act in the form of grants or contracts involving Federal funds 
for the administration of which ACTION has primary responsibility.
    (e) The term recipient means a public or private agency, institution 
or organization or a State or other political jurisdiction which has 
received assistance under title I, II, or III of the Act, but does not 
include individuals who ultimately receive benefits under any program of 
assistance or volunteers participating in any program.
    (f) The term agency means a public or private agency, institution, 
or organization or a State or other political jurisdiction with which 
the recipient has entered into an arrangement, contract or agreement to 
assist in its carrying out of the development, conduct and 
administration of all or part of a project assisted under titles I, II 
and III.
    (g) The term party in the case of a termination hearing means 
ACTION, the recipient concerned, and any other agency or organization 
which has a right or which has been granted permission by the presiding 
officer to participate in a hearing concerning termination of assistance 
to the recipient pursuant to Sec. 1206.1-5(e).
    (h) The term termination means any action permanently terminating or 
curtailing assistance to all or any part of a program prior to the time 
that such assistance is concluded by the terms and conditions of the 
document in which such assistance is extended, but does not include the 
refusal to provide new or additional assistance.
    (i) The term suspension means any action temporarily suspending or 
curtailing assistance in whole or in part, to all or any part of a 
program, prior to the time that such assistance is concluded by the 
terms and conditions of the document in which such assistance is 
extended, but does not include the refusal to provide new or additional 
assistance.