14 CFR 152

TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION,
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (Continued)

PART 152--AIRPORT AID PROGRAM--Table of Contents

Subpart E--Nondiscrimination in Airport Aid Program

Authority: Sec. 30 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970
(49 U.S.C. 1730); sec. 1.47(f)(1) of the Regulations of the Office of
the Secretary of Transportation (49 CFR 1.47(f)(1)).

Source: Docket No. 16419, 45 FR 10188, Feb. 14, 1980, unless
otherwise noted.

Sec. 152.401 Applicability.

(a) This subpart is applicable to all grantees and other covered
organizations under this part, and implements the requirements of
section 30 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, which
provides:

The Secretary shall take affirmative action to assure that no person
shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex, be
excluded from participating in any activity conducted with funds
received from any grant made under this title. The Secretary shall
promulgate such rules as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of
this section and may enforce this section, and any rules promulgated
under this section, through agency and department provisions and rules
which shall be similar to those established and in effect under Title VI
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The provisions of this section shall be
considered to be in addition to and not in lieu of the provisions of
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
(b) Each grantee, covered organization, or covered suborganization
under this part shall negotiate reformation of any contract,
subcontract, lease, sublease, or other agreement to include any
appropriate provision necessary to effect compliance with this subpart
by July 17, 1980.

Sec. 152.403 Definitions.

As used in this subpart--
AADA means the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, as
amended (49 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).
Affirmative action plan means a set of specific and result-oriented
procedures to which a sponsor, planning agency, state, or the aviation
related activity on an airport commits itself to achieve equal
employment opportunity.
Airport development means--(1) Any work involved in constructing,
improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including
the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport
hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or
taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment
required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under
section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment
required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the
safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and
including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise
suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and
landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise
on any area adjacent to a public airport;
(2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any
easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for
future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work
or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of,
airport hazards; and
(3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to
insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible
with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.

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Aviation related activity means a commercial enterprise--(1) Which
is operated on the airport pursuant to an agreement with the grantee or
airport operator or to a derivative subagreement;
(2) Which employs persons on the airport; and
(3) Which--(i) Is related primarily to the aeronautical activities
on the airport;
(ii) Provides goods or services to the public which is attracted to
the airport by aeronautical activities;
(iii) Provides services or supplies to other aeronautical related or
public service airport businesses or to the airport; or
(iv) Performs construction work on the airport.
Aviation workforce includes, with respect to grantees, each person
employed by the grantee on an airport or, for an aviation purpose, off
the airport.
Covered organization means a grantee, a subgrantee, or an aviation
related activity.
Covered suborganization is a subgrantee or sub-aviation related
activity, of a covered organization.
Department means the United States Department of Transportation;
Grant means Federal financial assistance in the form of funds
provided to a sponsor, planning agency, or state under this part;
Grantee means the recipient of a grant.
Minority means a person who is--(1) Black and not of Hispanic
origin: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of
Africa;
(2) Hispanic: A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or
South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race;
(3) Asian or Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any or the
original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian
subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including, but not limited to
China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, and Samoa; or
(4) American Indian or Alaskan Native: A person having origins in
any of the original peoples of North America who maintains cultural
identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
Planning agency means any planning agency designated by the
Secretary which is authorized by the laws of the State or States
(including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and Guam) or
political subdivisions concerned to engage in areawide planning for the
area in which assistance under this part is to be used;
Secretary means the Secretary of Transportation or an authorized
representative of the Secretary within the Department of Transportation;
SMSA means Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sponsor means any public agency that, either individually or jointly
with one or more other public agencies, submits to the Administrator, in
accordance with this part, an application for financial assistance, or
that conducts a project for airport development or airport master
planning, funded under this part;
Underutilization means having fewer minorities or women in a
particular job group than would reasonable be expected from their
availability in--
(1) The SMSA; or
(2) In the absence of a defined SMSA, in the counties contiguous to
the employer's location, or the location where the work is to be
performed, and in the areas from which persons may reasonably be
expected to commute.

Sec. 152.405 Assurances.

The following assurances shall be included in each application for
financial assistance under this part:
(a) Assurance. The grantee assures that it will undertake an
affirmative action program, as required by 14 CFR part 152, subpart E,
to ensure that no person shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color,
national origin, or sex, be excluded from participating in any
employment, contracting, or leasing activities covered in 14 CFR part
152, subpart E. The grantee assures that no person shall be excluded, on
these grounds, from participating in or receiving the services or
benefits of any program or activity covered by this subpart. The grantee
assures that it will require that its covered organizations provide
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that they similarly will undertake affirmative action programs and that
they will require assurances from their suborganizations, as required by
14 CFR part 152, subpart E, to the same effect.
(b) Assurance. The grantee agrees to comply with any affirmative
action plan or steps for equal employment opportunity required by 14 CFR
part 152, subpart E, as part of the affirmative action program, and by
any Federal, State, or local agency or court, including those resulting
from a conciliation agreement, a consent decree, court order, or similar
mechanism. The grantee agrees that State or local affirmative action
plans will be used in lieu of any affirmative action plan or steps
required by 14 CFR part 152, subpart E, only when they fully meet the
standards set forth in 14 CFR 152.409. The grantee agrees to obtain a
similar assurance from its covered organizations, and to cause them to
require a similar assurance of their covered suborganizations, as
required by 14 CFR part 152, subpart E.

Sec. 152.407 Affirmative action plan: General.

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, each of the
following shall have an affirmative action plan that meets the
requirements of Sec. 152.409 and is kept on file for review by the FAA
Office of Civil Rights:
(1) Each sponsor who employs 50 or more employees in its aviation
workforce.
(2) Each planning Agency which employs 50 or more employees in its
agency for aviation purposes.
(3) Each state political division, administering a grant under the
AADA to develop standards for airport development at general aviation
airports, which employs 50 or more employees in its aviation workforce.
(b) A grantee is in compliance with paragraph (a) of this section,
if it is subject to, and keeps on file for review by the FAA Office of
Civil Rights, one of the following:
(1) An affirmative action plan acceptable to another Federal agency.
(2) An affirmative action plan for a State or local agency that the
covered organization certifies meets the standards in Sec. 152.409.
(3) A conciliation agreement, consent decree, or court order which
provides short and long-range goals for equal employment opportunity
similar to those which would be established in an affirmative action
plan meeting the standards in Sec. 152.409.
(c) Each sponsor shall require each aviation related activity (other
than construction contractors) which employs 50 or more employees on the
airport to prepare, and keep on file for review by the FAA Office of
Civil Rights, an affirmative action plan developed in accordance with
the standards in Sec. 152.409, unless the activity is subject to one of
the mechanisms described in paragraphs (b) (1) through (3) of this
section.
(d) Each sponsor shall require each aviation related activity
described in paragraph (c) of this section to similarly require each of
its covered suborganizations (other than construction contractors) which
employs 50 or more employees on the airport to prepare, and to keep on
file for review by the FAA Office of Civil Rights, an affirmative action
plan developed in accordance with the standards in Sec. 152.409, unless
the suborganization is subject to one of the mechanisms described in
paragraphs (b) (1) through (3) of this section.

Sec. 152.409 Affirmative action plan standards.

(a) Each affirmative action plan required by this subpart shall be
developed in accordance with the following:
(1) An analysis of the employer's aviation workforce which groups
employees into the following job categories:
(i) Officials and managers.
(ii) Professionals.
(iii) Technicians.
(iv) Sales workers.
(v) Office and clerical workers.
(vi) Craft workers (skilled).
(vii) Operatives (semi-skilled).
(viii) Laborers (unskilled).
(ix) Service workers.
(2) A comparison separately made of the percent of minorities and
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the employer's present aviation workforce (in each of the job categories
listed in paragraph (a)(1) of this section) with the percent of
minorities and women in each of those categories in the total workforce
located in the SMSA, or, in the absence of an SMSA, in the counties
contiguous to the employer's location or the location where the work is
to be performed and in the areas from which persons may reasonably be
expected to commute. This data on the total workforce of the applicable
area will be supplied to grantees by the FAA. Grantees shall make this
data available to the other organizations covered by this subpart. The
comparison for minorities must be made only when minorities constitute
at least 2 percent of the total workforce in the geographical area used
for the comparison.
(3) A comparison, for the aviation workforce, of the total number of
applicants and persons hired with the total number of minority and
female applicants, and minorities and females hired, for the past year.
Where this data is unavailable, the employer shall establish and
maintain a system to provide the data, and shall make the comparison 120
days after establishing the data system.
(4) Where the percentage of minorities and women in the employer's
aviation workforce, in each job category, is less than the minority and
female percentage in any job category in the workforce of the
geographical area used, an analysis, based on the comparison required by
paragraph (a)(3) of this section, determining whether any of the
following exists:
(i) Insufficient flow of minority and female applicants.
(ii) Disparate rejection of minority and female applicants. The FAA
generally considers disparate rejection to exist whenever a selection
rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group is less than 80 percent of the
rate for the race, sex, or ethnic group with the highest selection rate.
(b) Each affirmative action plan required by this part shall be
implemented through an action-oriented program with goals and timetables
designed to eliminate obstacles to equal opportunity for women and
minorities in recruitment and hiring, which shall include, but not be
limited to:
(1) Where disparate rejection of minority and female applicants is
indicated by the analysis required by paragraph (a)(4) of this section,
validation of those portions of the testing or selection procedures
which cause the disparity in accordance with the ``Uniform Guidelines on
Employee Selection'' (43 FR 38290; August 25, 1978), within 120 days of
the analysis.
(2) Where testing or selection procedures cannot be validated,
discontinuation of their use.
(3) Where an insufficient flow of minority and female applicants
(less than the percentage available) is indicated by the analysis
required by paragraph (a)(4) of this section, good faith efforts to
increase the flow of minority and female applicants through the
following steps, as appropriate:
(i) Development or reaffirmation of an equal opportunity policy and
dissemination of that policy internally and externally.
(ii) Contact with minority and women's organizations, schools with
predominant minority or female enrollments, and other recruitment
sources for minorities and women.
(iii) Encouragement of State and local employment agencies, unions,
and other recruiting sources to ensure that minorities and women have
ample information on, and opportunity to apply for, vacancies and to
participate in examinations.
(iv) Participation in special employment programs such as Co-
operative Education Programs with predominantly minority and women's
colleges, ``After School'' or Work Study programs, and Summer
Employment.
(v) Participation in ``Job Fairs.''
(vi) Participation of minority and female employees in Career Days,
Youth Motivation Programs, and counseling and related activities in the
community.
(vii) Encouragement of minority and female employees to refer
applicants.
(viii) Motivation, training, and employment programs for minority
and female hard-core unemployed.

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Sec. 152.411 Affirmative action steps.

(a) Each grantee which is not described in Sec. 152.407(a) and is
not subject to an affirmative action plan, regulatory goals and
timetables, or other mechanism providing for short and long-range goals
for equal employment opportunity, shall make good faith efforts to
recruit and hire minorities and women for its aviation workforce as
vacancies occur, by taking the affirmative action steps in
Sec. 152.409(b)(3), as follows:
(1) If it has 15 or more employees in its aviation workforce or
employed for aviation purposes, by taking the affirmative action steps
in Sec. 152.409(b)(3), as appropriate; or
(2) If it has less than 15 employees in its aviation workforce or
employed for aviation purposes, by taking the affirmative action steps
in Sec. 152.409(b)(3) (i) and (ii), as appropriate.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, each
sponsor shall require each of its aviation related activities on its
airport, that is not subject to an affirmative action plan, regulatory
goals and timetables, or other mechanism which provides short and long-
range goals for equal employment opportunity, to take affirmative action
steps and cause them to similarly require affirmative action steps of
their covered suborganizations, as follows:
(1) Each aviation related activity or covered suborganization with
less than 50 but more than 14 employees, must take the affirmative
action steps enumerated in Sec. 152.409(b)(3), as appropriate.
(2) Each aviation related activity or covered suborganization with
less than 15 employees, must take the affirmative action steps
enumerated in Sec. 152.409(b)(3) (i) and (ii), as appropriate.
(c) Each sponsor shall require each construction contractor, that
has a contract of $10,000 or more on its airport and that is not subject
to an affirmative action plan, regulatory goals or timetables, or other
mechanism which provides short and long-range goals for equal employment
opportunity, to take the following affirmative action steps:
(1) The contractor must establish and maintain a current list of
minority and female recruitment sources; provide written notification to
these recruitment sources and to community organizations when employment
opportunities are available; and maintain a record of each
organization's response.
(2) The contractor must maintain a current file of the names,
addresses, and telephone numbers of each minority and female walk-in
applicant and each referral from a union, a recruitment source, or
community organization and the action taken with respect to each
individual. Where an individual is sent to the union hiring hall for
referral, but not referred back to the contractor, or, if referred, not
employed by the contractor, this shall be documented. The documentation
shall include an explanation of, and information on, any additional
actions that the contractor may have taken.
(3) The contractor must disseminate its equal employment opportunity
policy internally--
(i) By providing notice of the policy to unions and training
programs;
(ii) By including it in policy manuals and collective bargaining
agreements;
(iii) By publicizing it in the company newspaper, report, or other
publication; and
(iv) By specific review of the policy with all management personnel
and with all employees at least once a year.
(4) The contractor must disseminate the contractors's equal
employment opportunity policy externally--
(i) By stating it in each employment advertisement in the news
media, including news media with high minority and female readership;
and
(ii) By providing written notification to, or participating in
discussions with, other contractors and subcontractors with whom the
contractor does business.
(5) The contractor must direct its recruitment efforts to minority
and female organizations, to schools with minority and female students,
and to organizations which recruit and train minorities and women, in
the contractor's recruitment area.
(6) The contractor must encourage present minority and female
employees to recruit other minorities and women.
(7) The contractor must, where possible, provide after school,
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and vacation employment to minority and female youth.
(d) Each sponsor shall require each of its prime construction
contractors on its airport, with a contract of $10,000 or more, to
require each of the contractor's subcontractors on the airport to comply
with the affirmative action steps in paragraph (c) of this section, with
which it does not already comply, unless the subcontractor is subject to
an affirmative action plan, regulatory goals or timetables, or other
mechanism which provides short and long-range goals for equal employment
opportunity, or the subcontract is less than $10,000.

Sec. 152.413 Notice requirement.

Each grantee shall give adequate notice to employees and applicants
for employment, through posters provided by the Secretary, that the FAA
is committed to the requirements of section 30 of the AADA, to ensure
that no person shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national
origin, or sex, be excluded from participating in any activity conducted
with funds authorized under this part.

Sec. 152.415 Records and reports.

(a) Each grantee shall keep on file for a period of three years or
for the period during which the Federal financial assistance is made
available, whichever is longer, reports (other than those transmitted to
the FAA), records, and affirmative action plans, if applicable, that
will enable the FAA Office of Civil Rights to ascertain if there has
been and is compliance with this subpart.
(b) Each sponsor shall require its covered organizations to keep on
file, for the period set forth in paragraph (a) of this section, reports
(other than those submitted to the FAA), records, and affirmative action
plans, if applicable, that will enable the FAA Office of Civil Rights to
ascertain if there has been and is compliance with this subpart, and
shall cause them to require their covered suborganizations to keep
similar records as applicable.
(c) Each grantee, employing 15 or more person, shall annually submit
to the FAA a compliance report on a form provided by the FAA and a
statistical report on a Form EEO-1 of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) or any superseding EEOC form. If a grantee already is
submitting a Form EEO-1 to another agency, the grantee may submit a copy
of that form to the FAA as its statistical report. The information
provided shall include goals and timetables, if established in
compliance with the requirements of Sec. 152.409 or with the
requirements of another Federal agency or a State or local agency.
(d) Each sponsor shall--
(1) Require each of its aviation-related activities (except
construction contractors), employing 15 or more persons, to annually
submit to the sponsor the reports required by paragraph (c) of this
section, on the same basis as stated in paragraph (c) of this section,
and shall cause each aviation-related activitiy to require its covered
suborganizations, with 15 or more employees, to annually submit the
reports required by paragraph (c) of this section through the prime
organization to the sponsor, for transmittal by the sponsor to the FAA.
(2) Annually collect from its aviation related activities employing
less than 15 employees, and transmit to the FAA an aggregate employment
report, that includes the employment of sponsors with less than 15
employees, on an EEO-1 or any superseding EEOC form.
(e) Each sponsor shall require each of its construction contractors
on its airport, with a contract of $10,000 or more, which is not subject
to E.O. 11246 and the regulations of the Department of Labor (DOL), to
submit to the sponsor, at the conclusion of the project, a compliance
report on a form provided by the FAA and a statistical report on a DOL
Form 257 or any superseding DOL form. For projects exceeding six months,
the sponsor shall require a midway compliance report. The sponsor shall
submit these reports to the FAA.
(f) Each sponsor shall cause each of its construction contractors on
its airport to require each of the contractor's subcontractors, with a
subcontract of $10,000 or more, which are not subject to E.O. 11246 and
the regulations of the DOL, to submit the reports required by paragraph
(e) of this section to the prime contractor for submission to the

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sponsor. The sponsor shall transmit these reports to the FAA.
(g) Each organization required to prepare an affirmative action plan
for the FAA under this subpart shall update it annually and as changed
circumstances require. Each organization that has prepared a plan in
compliance with the requirements of another Federal agency or a State or
local agency, shall update it in accordance with the requirements of
that agency.

Sec. 152.417 Monitoring employment.

(a) Each grantee shall allow the FAA Office of Civil Rights to
monitor its equal employment opportunity compliance with this subpart
through on-site reviews and desk audits. Reviews or audits will include
the records submitted under Sec. 152.415.
(b) As it deems necessary, the FAA Office of Civil Rights will
conduct on-site or desk audits of covered aviation related activities on
airports.

Sec. 152.419 Minority business.

Each person subject to this subpart is required to comply with the
Minority Business Enterprise Regulations of the Department.

Sec. 152.421 Public accommodations, services, and benefits.

Requirements relating to the provision of public accommodations,
services, and other benefits to beneficiaries under Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.) and part 21 of the
regulations of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (49 CFR
part 21) implementing Title VI are made applicable, where appropriate,
to nondiscrimination and affirmative action on the basis of sex or
creed, and shall be complied with by each applicant for assistance and
each grantee.

Sec. 152.423 Investigation and enforcement.

(a) Complaints. Any person who believes that he or she has been
subjected to discrimination prohibited by this subpart may personally,
or through a representative, file a complaint with the Director of the
Departmental Office of Civil Rights. A complaint must be in writing and
filed not later than 180 days after the date of the alleged
discrimination, unless the time for filing is extended by the Director.
(b) Investigations and informal resolutions. The Departmental Office
of Civil Rights will make a prompt investigation whenever a complaint,
compliance review, report, or any other information indicates a possible
failure to comply with this subpart. The procedures in 49 CFR part 21,
augmented as appropriate by the investigative procedures of part 13 of
this chapter, will be followed, except that--
(1) Compliance with a regulation of the Department applicable to
minority business enterprise will be investigated and enforced through
the procedures contained in that regulation; and
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, allegations
of noncompliance with regulations governing equal employment opportunity
of another Federal agency or a State or local agency, will be referred,
for investigation and enforcement, to the Federal agency or, in the
discretion of the Departmental Office of Civil Rights, to the State or
local agency.
(c) When the FAA (under section 30 of the AADA) and another Federal
agency, a referral agency recognized by the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, or a court have concurrent jurisdiction over a matter--
(1) If the other agency or court makes a finding on the record that
noncompliance or discrimination has occurred, the FAA will accept the
finding, and determine what sanctions or remedies are appropriate under
section 30 as a result of the finding, after permitting the party
against whom the finding was made to be heard on the determination of
the sanctions or remedies; or
(2) If it appears that delay, through referral to another agency,
will result in the continued expenditure of Federal funds under this
part without compliance with this subpart, the Secretary may--
(i) Investigate the matter;
(ii) Make a determination as to compliance with section 30; and
(iii) Impose appropriate sanctions and remedies.
(d) Nothing in this section shall preclude the Director of the
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an investigation when it appears that the investigation of the complaint
may reveal a pattern or practice of discrimination or noncompliance with
the requirements of this subpart in the employment practices of a
grantee or other covered organization.

Sec. 152.425 Effect of subpart.

Nothing contained in this subpart diminishes or supersedes the
obligations imposed by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42
U.S.C. 2000d), Executive Order 11246 (42 U.S.C. 2000e (note)), or any
other Federal law or Executive Order relating to civil rights.