[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR8.55]

[Page 149-150]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 8--NONDISCRIMINATION BASED ON HANDICAP IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart D--Enforcement
 
Sec. 8.55  Compliance information.

    (a) Cooperation and assistance. The responsible civil rights 
official and the award official shall, to the fullest extent 
practicable, seek the cooperation of recipients in obtaining compliance 
with this part and shall provide assistance and guidance to recipients 
to help them comply voluntarily with this part.
    (b) Compliance reports. Each recipient shall keep such records and 
submit to

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the responsible civil rights official or his or her designee timely, 
complete, and accurate compliance reports at such times, and in such 
form and containing such information, as the responsible civil rights 
official or his or her designee may determine to be necessary to enable 
him or her to ascertain whether the recipient has complied or is 
complying with this part. In general, recipients should have available 
for the Department data showing the extent to which individuals with 
handicaps are beneficiaries of federally assisted programs.
    (c) Access to sources of information. Each recipient shall permit 
access by the responsible civil rights official 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 
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 
part and its applicability to the program or activity under which the 
recipient receives Federal financial assistance, and make such 
information available to them in such manner as the responsible civil 
rights official finds necessary to apprise such persons of the 
protections against discrimination assured them by this part.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
2529-0034)

[53 FR 20233, June 2, 1988, as amended at 54 FR 37645, Sept. 12, 1989]