45 C.F.R. Subpart C—What are the Responsibilities of the Federal Agencies?
Title 45 - Public Welfare
(a) The head of each agency which extends Federal financial assistance to any program or activity shall publish proposed and final age discrimination regulations in the (1) Carry out the provisions of section 303 of the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; and (2) Provide for appropriate investigative, conciliation, and enforcement procedures. (b) Each agency shall publish its proposed agency age discrimination regulations no later than 90 days after the publication date of the final general, government-wide age discrimination regulations. (c) Each agency shall submit its final agency regulations to HHS for review no later than 120 days after publication of proposed agency age discrimination regulations. (d) Final agency age discrimination regulations shall be consistent with these general, government-wide age discrimination regulations and shall not be published until the Secretary approves them. (e) Each agency shall include in its regulations a provision governing the operation of an alternate funds disbursal procedure as described in §90.48 of these regulations. (f) Each agency shall publish an appendix to its final age discrimination regulations containing a list of each age distinction provided in a Federal statute or in regulations affecting financial assistance administered by the agency. (a) Each agency shall conduct a review of age distinctions it imposes on its recipients by regulations, policies, and administrative practices. The purpose of this review is to identify how age distinctions are used by each Federal agency and whether those age distinctions are permissible under the Act and implementing regulations. (b) No later than 12 months from the date the agency published its final regulations, the agency shall publish, for public comment, a report in the (1) The results of the review conducted under paragraph (a) of this section; (2) A list of the age distinctions contained in regulations which are to be continued; (3) The justification under the requirements of the Act and these regulations for each age distinction to be continued; (4) A list of the age distinctions not contained in regulations but which will be adopted by regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act using the notice and comment procedures specified in 5 U.S.C. 553; and (5) A list of the age distinctions to be eliminated. (c) Beginning with the effective date of an agency's final regulations, the agency may not impose a new age distinction unless the age distinction is adopted by regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act using the notice and comment procedures specified in 5 U.S.C. 553. (d) Beginning 12 months after the publication of its age discrimination regulations, an agency may not continue an existing age distinction, unless the age distinction has already been adopted by regulation or is adopted by regulation under the Administrative Procedure Act using the notice and comment procedures specified in 5 U.S.C. 553. Where two or more agencies provide Federal financial assistance to a recipient or class of recipients, the Secretary may designate one of the agencies as the sole agency for all compliance and enforcement purposes with respect to those recipients, except for the ordering of termination of funds and the notification of the appropriate committees of Congress. Each agency shall submit to the Secretary not later than December 31 of each year, beginning in 1979, a report which: (a) Describes in detail the steps taken during the preceding fiscal year to carry out the Act; and (b) Contains data on the frequency, type, and resolution of complaints and on any compliance reviews, sufficient to permit analysis of the agency's progress in reducing age discrimination in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance from the agency; and (c) Contains data directly relevant to the extent of any pattern or practice of age discrimination which the agency has identified in any programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance from the agency and to progress toward eliminating it; and (d) Contains evaluative or interpretative information which the agency determines is useful in analyzing agency progress in reducing age discrimination in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance from the agency; and (e) Contains whatever other data the Secretary may require. [44 FR 33776, June 12, 1979, as amended at 70 FR 24321, May 9, 2005]
Title 45: Public Welfare
PART 90—NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF AGE IN PROGRAMS OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Subpart C—What are the Responsibilities of the Federal Agencies?
§ 90.31 Issuance of regulations.
§ 90.32 Review of agency policies and administrative practices.
§ 90.33 Interagency cooperation.
§ 90.34 Agency reports.
