[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1203.10]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER XII--CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
 
PART 1203_NONDISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS_EFFECTUATION OF 
 
Sec.  1203.10  Decisions and notices.

    (a) Procedure on decisions by hearing examiner. If the hearing is 
held by a hearing examiner, the hearing examiner shall either make an 
initial decision, if so authorized, or certify the entire record 
including his recommended findings and proposed decision to the Director 
for a final decision, and a copy of the initial decision or 
certification shall be mailed to the applicant or recipient. When the 
initial decision is made by the hearing examiner, the applicant or 
recipient may, within 30 days after the mailing of a notice of initial 
decision, file with the Director his exceptions to the initial decision, 
with his reasons therefor. In the absence of exceptions, the Director 
may, on his own motion, within 45 days after the initial decision, serve 
on the applicant or recipient a notice that he will review the decision. 
On the filing of the exceptions or of notice of review, the Director 
shall review the initial decision and issue his own decision thereon 
including the reasons therefor. In the absence of either exceptions or a 
notice of review the initial decision, subject to paragraph (e) of this 
section, shall constitute the final decision of the Director.
    (b) Decisions on record or review by the Director. When a record is 
certified to the Director for decision or the Director reviews the 
decision of a hearing examiner pursuant to paragraph (a) of this 
section, or when the Director conducts the hearing, the applicant or 
recipient shall be given reasonable opportunity to file with it briefs 
or other written statements of the recipient's contentions, and a 
written copy of the final decision of the Director will be sent to the 
applicant or recipient and to the complainant, if any.
    (c) Decisions on record where a hearing is waived. When a hearing is 
waived pursuant to Sec.  1203.9, a decision shall be made by ACTION on 
the record and a written copy of the decision shall be sent to the 
applicant or recipient, and to the complainant, if any.
    (d) Rulings required. Each decision of a hearing examiner or the 
Director shall set forth a ruling on each finding, conclusion, or 
exception presented, and shall identify the requirement or requirements 
imposed by or pursuant to this part with which it is found that the 
applicant or recipient has failed to comply.
    (e) Approval by ACTION. A final decision by an official of ACTION 
other than by the Director, which provides for the suspension or 
termination of, or the refusal to grant or continue Federal financial 
assistance, or the imposition of any other sanction available under this 
part or title VI, shall

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promptly be transmitted to the Director, who may approve the decision, 
vacate it, or remit or mitigate a sanction imposed.
    (f) Content of orders. The final decision may provide for suspension 
or termination of, or refusal to grant or continue Federal financial 
assistance, in whole or in part, to which this regulation applies, and 
may contain the terms, conditions, and other provisions as are 
consistent with and will effectuate the purposes of title VI and this 
part, including provisions designed to assure that Federal financial 
assistance to which this regulation applies will not thereafter be 
extended to the applicant or recipient determined by the decision to be 
in default in its performance of an assurance given by it under this 
part, or to have otherwise failed to comply with this part, unless and 
until it corrects its noncompliance and satisfies ACTION that it will 
fully comply with this part.
    (g) Post-termination proceedings. (1) An applicant or recipient 
adversely affected by an order issued under paragraph (f) of this 
section shall be restored to full eligibility to receive Federal 
financial assistance if it satisfies the terms and conditions of the 
order for eligibility, or if it brings itself into compliance with this 
part and provides reasonable assurance that it will fully comply with 
this part.
    (2) An applicant or recipient adversely affected by an order entered 
pursuant to paragraph (f) of this section may at any time request ACTION 
to restore fully its eligibility to receive Federal financial 
assistance. A request shall be supported by information showing that the 
applicant or recipient has met the requirements of paragraph (g)(1) of 
this section. If ACTION determines that those requirements have been 
satisfied, it shall restore the eligibility.
    (3) If ACTION denies a request, the applicant or recipient may 
submit a request for a hearing in writing, specifying why it believes 
ACTION is in error. The applicant or recipient shall be given an 
expeditious hearing, with a decision on the record in accordance with 
the rules or procedures issued by ACTION. The applicant or recipient 
shall be restored to eligibility if it proves at the hearing that it 
satisfied the requirements of paragraph (g)(1) of this section. While 
proceedings under this paragraph are pending, the sanctions imposed by 
the order issued under paragraph (f) of this section remain in effect.

[39 FR 27322, July 26, 1974, as amended at 68 FR 51387, Aug. 26, 2003]