[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: 7CFR15b.7]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 15b_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN PROGRAMS OR 
ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 15b.7  Notice of nondiscrimination and accessible services.

    (a) A recipient shall take appropriate initial and continuing steps 
to notify participants, beneficiaries, applicants, and employees, 
including those with impaired vision or hearing, and unions or 
professional organizations holding collective bargaining or professional 
agreements with the recipient that it does not discriminate on the basis 
of handicap in violation of section 504 and this part. The notification 
shall state, where appropriate, that the recipient does not discriminate 
in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs 
or activities. The recipient shall also identify the responsible 
employee designated pursuant to Sec. 15b.6(a), and identify the 
existence and location of accessible services, activities, and 
facilities. A recipient shall make the initial notification required by 
this paragraph within 90 days of the effective date of this part. 
Methods of initial and continuing notification may include but are not 
limited to the posting of notices, placement of notices in the 
recipient's publications, radio announcements, and the use of other 
visual and aural media.
    (b) If a recipient publishes or uses recruitment materials or 
publications containing general information that it

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makes available to participants, beneficiaries, applicants or employees, 
it shall include in those materials or publications a statement of the 
policy described in paragraph (a) of this section. A recipient may meet 
the requirement of this paragraph either by including appropriate 
inserts in existing materials and publications or by revising and 
reprinting the materials and publications.

[47 FR 25470, June 11, 1982, as amended at 68 FR 51342, Aug. 26, 2003]