[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 13, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 13CFR117.3]

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                TITLE 13--BUSINESS CREDIT AND ASSISTANCE
 
                CHAPTER I--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 117_NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES OF 
 
Sec.  117.3  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    (a) The term act means the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as 
amended (Title III of Pub. L. 94-135).
    (b) The term action means any act, activity, policy, rule, standard, 
or method of administration; or the use of any policy, rule, standard, 
or method of administration.
    (c) The term age means how old a person is, or the number of years 
from the date of a person's birth.
    (d) The term age distinction means any action using age or an age-
related term.
    (e) The term age-related means a word or words which necessarily 
imply a particular age or range of ages (for example, children, adult, 
older persons, but not student).
    (f) The term agency means a Federal department or agency that is 
empowered to extend financial assistance.
    (g) The term applicant means one who applies for Federal financial 
assistance.
    (h) The term Federal 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 
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 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) The term normal operation means the operation of a business or 
activity without significant changes that would impair its ability to 
meet its objectives.
    (j) The term program or activity means all of the operations of any 
entity described in paragraphs (j)(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 agency (and each other State 
or local

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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 (j)(1), (2), or (3) of this section.
    (k) The term recipient means one who receives any Federal financial 
assistance administered by the Small Business Administration. (See 
Appendix A.) The term recipient also shall be deemed to include 
subrecipients of SBA financial assistance.
    (l) The term SBA means the Small Business Administration.
    (m) The term subrecipient means any business concern that receives 
Federal financial assistance from the primary recipient of such 
financial assistance. A subrecipient is generally regarded as a 
recipient of Federal financial assistance and has all the duties of a 
recipient in these regulations.
    (n) The term statutory objective means the purposes of the 
legislation as stated in an act, statute or ordinance or can be shown in 
the legislative history of any Federal statute, State statute, or local 
statute or ordinance adopted by an elected, general purpose legislative 
body.

[50 FR 41648, Oct. 11, 1985, as amended at 68 FR 51349, Aug. 26, 2003]