[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 41, Volume 2]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 41CFR101-8.703]



[Page 59-60]

 

           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

 

          CHAPTER 101--FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS

 

PART 101-8_NONDISCRIMINATION IN PROGRAMS RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL 

ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents

 

      Subpart 101-8.7_Discrimination Prohibited on the Basis of Age

 

Sec. 101-8.703  Definitions of terms.



    (a) As used in these regulations, the term: Act means the Age 

Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended (title III of Pub. L. 94-135).



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    (b) Action means any act, activity, policy, rule, standard, or 

method of administration.

    (c) Age means how old a person is, or the number of years from the 

date of a person's birth.

    (d) Age distinction means any action using age or an age-related 

term.

    (e) Age-related term means a word or words that imply a particular 

age or range or ages (for example, children, adult, older person, but 

not student).

    (f) Agency means a Federal department or agency empowered to extend 

Federal financial assistance.

    (g) Agency Responsible Officials:

    (1) Administrator means the Administrator of General Services.

    (2) Director, Office of Civil Rights means the individual 

responsible for managing the agency's nondiscrimination Federal 

financial assistance policy, or his or her designee.

    (h) Federal financial assistance means (1) grants and loans of 

Federal funds, (2) the grant or donation of Federal property and 

interests in property, (3) the services 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 

without consideration or at a nominal consideration, or at a 

consideration which is reduced for the purposes of assisting the 

recipient, or in recognition of the public interest to be served by such 

sale or lease to the recipient, and (5) any Federal agreement, 

arrangement, or other contract which has as one of its purposes the 

provision of assistance.

    (i) GSA means the United States General Services Administration.

    (j) Primary recipient means any recipient which is authorized or 

required to extend Federal financial assistance to another recipient.

    (k) Program or activity means 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;

    (ii) The entity of such state and local government that distributes 

such assistance and each such department or 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) 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 any other entity, or 

any individual, in any State, to whom Federal financial assistance is 

extended, directly or through another recipient, including any 

successor, assign, or transferee thereof, but such term does not include 

any ultimate beneficiary.



[50 FR 23412, June 4, 1985, as amended at 68 FR 51375, Aug. 26, 2003]