[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR15.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 15_NONDISCRIMINATION--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart A_Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs of the 
 Department of Agriculture_Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights 
                               Act of 1964
 
Sec. 15.2  Definitions.

    (a) Department means the Department of Agriculture, and includes 
each of its operating agencies and other organizational units.
    (b) Agency means any service, bureau, agency, office, 
administration, instrumentality of or corporation within the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture extending Federal financial assistance to any 
program or activity, or any officer or employee of the Department to 
whom the Secretary delegates authority to carry out any of the functions 
or responsibilities of an agency under this part.
    (c) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture or any officer or 
employee of the Department to whom the Secretary has heretofore 
delegated, or to whom the Secretary may hereafter delegate, the 
authority to act in his stead under the regulations in this part.
    (d) Hearing Officer means a hearing examiner appointed pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3105, and designated to hold hearings under the regulations in 
this part or any person authorized to hold a hearing and make a final 
decision under the regulations in this part.
    (e) Recipient means any State, political subdivision of any State, 
or instrumentality of any State or political subdivision, any public or 
private agency, institution, or organization, or other entity or any 
individual in any State, to whom Federal financial assistance is 
extended, directly or through another recipient, including any 
successor, assignee, or transferee thereof, but such term does not 
include any ultimate beneficiary.
    (f) Primary recipient includes any recipient which is authorized or 
required to extend Federal financial assistance to another recipient.
    (g) Federal financial assistance or financial assistance includes 
(1) grants and loans of Federal funds, (2) the grant or donation of 
Federal property and interests in property, (3) the detail of Federal 
personnel, (4) the sale and lease of, and the permission to use (on 
other than a casual or transient basis), Federal property or any 
interest in such property or the furnishing of services without 
consideration or at a nominal consideration, or at a consideration which 
is reduced for the purpose of assisting the recipient, or in recognition 
of the public interest to be served by such sale, lease or furnishing of 
services to the recipient, and (5) any Federal agreement, arrangement, 
or other contract which has as one of its purposes the provision of 
assistance.
    (h) Grant, loan or contract includes any grant, loan agreement or 
commitment to loan, contract or agreement to provide financial 
assistance or any other arrangement between the Department or any Agency 
and a recipient of financial assistance.
    (i) United States means the States of the United States, the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, 
Guam, Wake Island, the Canal Zone, and the territories and possessions 
of the United States, and the term State means any one of the foregoing.
    (j) Applicant means one who submits an application, request, or plan 
required to be approved by an Agency, or by a primary recipient, as a 
condition to eligibility for Federal financial assistance, and 
application means such an application, request, or plan.
    (k) Program or activity and program mean all of the operations of 
any entity described in paragraphs (k)(1) through (4) of this section, 
any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance:
    (1)(i) A department, agency, special purpose district, or other 
instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or
    (ii) The entity of such State or local government that distributes 
such assistance and each such department or

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agency (and each other State or local government entity) to which the 
assistance is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or local 
government;
    (2)(i) A college, university, or other postsecondary institution, or 
a public system of higher education; or
    (ii) A local educational agency (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 7801), 
system of vocational education, or other school system;
    (3)(i) An entire corporation, partnership, or other private 
organization, or an entire sole proprietorship--
    (A) If assistance is extended to such corporation, partnership, 
private organization, or sole proprietorship as a whole; or
    (B) Which is principally engaged in the business of providing 
education, health care, housing, social services, or parks and 
recreation; or
    (ii) The entire plant or other comparable, geographically separate 
facility to which Federal financial assistance is extended, in the case 
of any other corporation, partnership, private organization, or sole 
proprietorship; or
    (4) Any other entity which is established by two or more of the 
entities described in paragraph (k)(1), (2), or (3) of this section.
    (l) Facility includes all or any portion of structures, equipment, 
or other real or personal property or interests therein, and the 
provision of facilities includes the construction, expansion, 
renovation, remodeling, alteration or acquisition of facilities.

[29 FR 16274, Dec. 4, 1964, as amended at 36 FR 3411, Feb. 24, 1971; 38 
FR 17925, July 5, 1973; 68 FR 51340, 51341, Aug. 26, 2003]