[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR627.500]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 627--GENERAL PROVISIONS GOVERNING PROGRAMS UNDER TITLES I, II, AND III OF THE ACT--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart E--Grievances Procedures at the State and Local Level
 
Sec. 627.500  Scope and purpose.


    (a) General. This subpart establishes the procedures which apply to 
the handling of noncriminal complaints under the Act at the Governor, 
the SDA, and

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the SSG levels. Nothing contained in this subpart shall be deemed to 
prejudice the separate exercise of other legal rights in pursuit of 
remedies and sanctions available outside the Act.
    (b) Handling of discrimination complaints. Complaints of 
discrimination pursuant to section 167(a) of the Act shall be handled 
under 29 CFR part 34.
    (c) Complaints and reports of criminal fraud, waste, and abuse. 
Information and complaints involving criminal fraud, waste, abuse or 
other criminal activity shall be reported through the Department's 
Incident Reporting System, directly and immediately to the DOL Office of 
Inspector General, Office of Investigations, 200 Constitution Avenue 
NW., Room S5514, Washington, DC 20210, or to the corresponding Regional 
Inspector General for Investigations, with a copy simultaneously 
provided to the Employment and Training Administration. The Hotline 
number is 1-800-347-3756. Other complaints of a noncriminal nature will 
continue to be handled under the procedures set forth in this part, 
subparts E and F, and through the Department's Incident Reporting 
System.
    (d) Non-JTPA remedies. Whenever any person, organization, or agency 
believes that a recipient, an SDA, an SSG, or other subrecipient has 
engaged in conduct that violates the Act and that such conduct also 
violates a Federal statute other than JTPA, or a State or local law, 
that person, organization, or agency may, with respect to the non-JTPA 
cause of action, institute a civil action or pursue other remedies 
authorized under such other Federal, State, or local law against the 
recipient, the SDA, the SSG, or other subrecipient, without first 
exhausting the remedies in this subpart. Nothing in the Act or this 
chapter shall:
    (1) Allow any person or organization to file a suit which alleges a 
violation of JTPA or regulations promulgated thereunder without first 
exhausting the administrative remedies described in this subpart; or
    (2) Be construed to create a private right of action with respect to 
alleged violations of JTPA or the regulations promulgated thereunder.