[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1250.102]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                   CHAPTER V--NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1250_NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY-ASSISTED PROGRAMS OF 
 
Sec.  1250.102  Definitions.

    As used in this part--
    (a) Administrator means the Administrator of the NASA.
    (b) Applicable means one who submits an application, request, 
proposal, or plan required to be approved by a responsible NASA 
official, or by a primary recipient, as a condition to eligibility for 
Federal financial assistance; and the term application means such an 
application, request, proposal or plan.
    (c) 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.
    (d) 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.
    (e) NASA means the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
    (f) Primary recipient means any recipient which is authorized or 
required to extend Federal financial assistance to another recipient.
    (g) Principal Compliance Officer means the Director, Equal 
Employment Opportunity Office, Office of Organization and Management, 
NASA Headquarters, or any successor officer to whom the Administrator 
should delegate authority to perform the functions assigned to the 
Principal Compliance Officer by this part.
    (h) Program or activity and program mean all of the operations of 
any entity described in paragraphs (h)(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 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

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    (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 (h)(1), (2), or (3) of this section.
    (i) 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, assign, or transferee thereof, but such term does not include 
any ultimate beneficiary.
    (j) Responsible NASA official means:
    (1) The heads of Offices at NASA Headquarters responsible for making 
grants, and contracts of the kind listed in appendix A; and
    (2) Each Director of a field installation which makes or administers 
grants and contracts of the kind listed in appendix A, or any officer to 
whom he has delegated authority to act within the areas of 
responsibility assigned to him under this part.
    (k) 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.

[30 FR 301, Jan. 9, 1965, as amended at 38 FR 17936, July 5, 1973; 68 FR 
51350, Aug. 26, 2003]