[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR80.5]

[Page 290-292]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 80_NONDISCRIMINATION UNDER PROGRAMS RECEIVING FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES EFFECTUATION OF
 
Sec. 80.5  Illustrative application.

    The following examples will illustrate the programs aided by Federal 
financial assistance of the Department. (In all cases the discrimination 
prohibited is discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national 
origin prohibited by Title VI of the Act and this regulation, as a 
condition of the receipt of Federal financial assistance).
    (a) In federally assisted programs for the provision of health or 
welfare services, discrimination in the selection or eligibility of 
individuals to receive the services, and segregation or other 
discriminatory practices in the manner of

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providing them, are prohibited. This prohibition extends to all 
facilities and services provided by the grantee or, if the grantee is a 
State, by a political subdivision of the State. It extends also to 
services purchased or otherwise obtained by the grantee (or political 
subdivision) from hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and similar 
institutions for beneficiaries of the program, and to the facilities in 
which such services are provided, subject, however, to the provisions of 
Sec. 80.3(e).
    (b) In federally-affected area assistance (Pub. L. 815 and Pub. L. 
874) for construction aid and for general support of the operation of 
elementary or secondary schools, or in more limited support to such 
schools such as for the acquisition of equipment, the provision of 
vocational education, or the provision of guidance and counseling 
services, discrimination by the recipient school district in any of its 
elementary or secondary schools in the admission of students, or in the 
treatment of its students in any aspect of the educational process, is 
prohibited. In this and the following illustrations the prohibition of 
discrimination in the treatment of students or other trainees includes 
the prohibition of discrimination among the students or trainees in the 
availability or use of any academic, dormitory, eating, recreational, or 
other facilities of the grantee or other recipient.
    (c) In a research, training, demonstration, or other grant to a 
university for activities to be conducted in a graduate school, 
discrimination in the admission and treatment of students in the 
graduate school is prohibited, and the prohibition extends to the entire 
university.
    (d) In a training grant to a hospital or other nonacademic 
institution, discrimination is prohibited in the selection of 
individuals to be trained and in their treatment by the grantee during 
their training. In a research or demonstration grant to such an 
institution discrimination is prohibited with respect to any educational 
activity and any provision of medical or other services and any 
financial aid to individuals incident to the program.
    (e) In grants to assist in the construction of facilities for the 
provision of health, educational or welfare services, assurances will be 
required that services will be provided without discrimination, to the 
same extent that discrimination would be prohibited as a condition of 
Federal operating grants for the support of such services. Thus, as a 
condition of grants for the construction of academic, research, or other 
facilities at institutions of higher education, assurances will be 
required that there will be no discrimination in the admission or 
treatment of students. In case of hospital construction grants the 
assurance will apply to patients, to interns, residents, student nurses, 
and other trainees, and to the privilege of physicians, dentists, and 
other professionally qualified persons to practice in the hospital, and 
will apply to the entire facility for which, or for a part of which, the 
grant is made, and to facilities operated in connection therewith.
    (f) Upon transfers of real or personal surplus property for health 
or educational uses, discrimination is prohibited to the same extent as 
in the case of grants for the construction of facilities or the 
provision of equipment for like purposes.
    (g) Each applicant for a grant for the construction of educational 
television facilities is required to provide an assurance that it will, 
in its broadcast services, give due consideration to the interests of 
all significant racial or ethnic groups within the population to be 
served by the applicant.
    (h) A recipient may not take action that is calculated to bring 
about indirectly what this regulation forbids it to accomplish directly. 
Thus, a State, in selecting or approving projects or sites for the 
construction of public libraries which will receive Federal financial 
assistance, may not base its selections or approvals on criteria which 
have the effect of defeating or of substantially impairing 
accomplishments of the objectives of the Federal assistance as respects 
individuals of a particular race, color or national origin.
    (i) In some situations, even though past discriminatory practices 
attributable to a recipient or applicant have been abandoned, the 
consequences of such practices continue to impede the

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full availability of a benefit. If the efforts required of the applicant 
or recipient under Sec. 80.6(d), to provide information as to the 
availability of the program or activity and the rights of beneficiaries 
under this regulation, have failed to overcome these consequences, it 
will become necessary under the requirement stated in (i) of Sec. 
80.3(b) (6) for such applicant or recipient to take additional steps to 
make the benefits fully available to racial and nationality groups 
previously subject to discrimination. This action might take the form, 
for example, of special arrangements for obtaining referrals or making 
selections which will insure that groups previously subjected to 
discrimination are adequately served.
    (j) Even though an applicant or recipient has never used 
discriminatory policies, the services and benefits of the program or 
activity it administers may not in fact be equally available to some 
racial or nationality groups. In such circumstances, an applicant or 
recipient may properly give special consideration to race, color, or 
national origin to make the benefits of its program more widely 
available to such groups, not then being adequately served. For example, 
where a university is not adequately serving members of a particular 
racial or nationality group, it may establish special recruitment 
policies to make its program better known and more readily available to 
such group, and take other steps to provide that group with more 
adequate service.

(Secs. 601, 602, Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252 (42 U.S.C. 
2000d, 2000d-1))

[29 FR 16298, Dec. 4, 1964; 29 FR 16988, Dec. 11, 1964, as amended at 38 
FR 17980, 17982, July 5, 1973; 70 FR 24318, May 9, 2005]