[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR42.405]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 42_NONDISCRIMINATION; EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY; POLICIES AND 
PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Subpart F_Coordination of Enforcement of Non-discrimination in Federally 
                            Assisted Programs
 
Sec.  42.405  Public dissemination of title VI information.

    (a) Federal agencies shall make available and, where appropriate, 
distribute their title VI regulations and guidelines for use by federal 
employees, applicants for federal assistance, recipients, beneficiaries 
and other interested persons.
    (b) State agency compliance programs (see Sec.  42.410) shall be 
made available to the public.
    (c) Federal agencies shall require recipients, where feasible, to 
display prominently in reasonable numbers and places posters which state 
that the recipients operate programs subject to the nondiscrimination 
requirements of title VI, summarize those requirements, note the 
availability of title VI information from recipients and the federal 
agencies, and explain briefly the procedures for filing complaints. 
Federal agencies and recipients shall also include information on title 
VI requirements, complaint procedures and the rights of beneficiaries in 
handbooks, manuals, pamphlets and other

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material which are ordinarily distributed to the public to describe the 
federally assisted programs and the requirements for participation by 
recipients and beneficiaries. To the extent that recipients are required 
by law or regulation to publish or broadcast program information in the 
news media, federal agencies and recipients shall insure that such 
publications and broadcasts state that the program in question is an 
equal opportunity program or otherwise indicate that discrimination in 
the program is prohibited by federal law.
    (d)(1) Where a significant number or proportion of the population 
eligible to be served or likely to be directly affected by a federally 
assisted program (e.g., affected by relocation) needs service or 
information in a language other than English in order effectively to be 
informed of or to participate in the program, the recipient shall take 
reasonable steps, considering the scope of the program and the size and 
concentration of such population, to provide information in appropriate 
languages to such persons. This requirement applies with regard to 
written material of the type which is ordinarily distributed to the 
public.
    (2) Federal agencies shall also take reasonable steps to provide, in 
languages other than English, information regarding programs subject to 
title VI.