[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR27.121]

[Page 323-324]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 27_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES 
RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart C_Enforcement
 
Sec.  27.121  Compliance information.

    Source: 44 FR 31468, May 31, 1979. Redesignated at 56 FR 45621, 
Sept. 6, 1991.

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    (a) Cooperation and assistance. The responsible Departmental 
official, to the fullest extent practicable, seeks the cooperation of 
recipients in securing compliance with this part and provides assistance 
and guidance to recipients to help them comply with this part.
    (b) Compliance reports. Each recipient shall keep on file for one 
year all complaints of noncompliance received. A record of all such 
complaints, which may be in summary form, shall be kept for five years. 
Each recipient shall keep such other records and submit to the 
responsible Departmental official or his/her designee timely, complete, 
and accurate compliance reports at such times, and in such form, and 
containing such information as the responsible Department official may 
prescribe. In the case in which a primary recipient extends Federal 
financial assistance to any other recipient, the other recipient shall 
also submit compliance reports to the primary recipient so as to enable 
the primary recipient to prepare its report.
    (c) Access to sources of information. Each recipient shall permit 
access by the responsible Departmental official or his/her designee 
during normal business hours to books, records, accounts, and other 
sources of information, and to facilities that are pertinent to 
compliance with this part. Where required information is in the 
exclusive possession of another agency or person who fails or refuses to 
furnish the information, the recipient shall so certify in its report 
and describe the efforts made to obtain the information. Considerations 
of privacy or confidentiality do not bar the Department from evaluating 
or seeking to enforce compliance with this part. Information of a 
confidential nature obtained in connection with compliance evaluation or 
enforcement is not disclosed by the Department, except in formal 
enforcement proceedings, where necessary, or where otherwise required by 
law.
    (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 application to the program or activity for which the 
recipient receives Federal financial assistance, and make such 
information available to them in such manner, as the responsible 
Departmental official finds necessary to apprise them of the protections 
against discrimination provided by the Act and this part.

[44 FR 31468, May 31, 1979. Redesignated at 56 FR 45621, Sept. 6, 1991. 
68 FR 51391, Aug. 26, 2003]