Title VI - Nondiscrimination In Federally Assisted
Programs
Section 601 discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964 42 USC 2000(d)-2000(d)(1)
General
This title declares it to be the policy of the United States that
discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national origin shall not occur
in connection with programs and activities receiving Federal financial
assistance and authorizes and directs the appropriate Federal departments and
agencies to take action to carry out this policy. This title is not intended to
apply to foreign assistance programs.
Section 601 -- This section states the general principle that no
person in the United States shall be excluded from participation in or otherwise
discriminated against on the ground of race, color, or national origin under any
program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
Section 602 directs each Federal agency administering a program of
Federal financial assistance by way of grant, contract, or loan to take action
pursuant to rule, regulation, or order of general applicability to effectuate
the principle of section 601 in a manner consistent with the achievement of the
objectives of the statute authorizing the assistance. In seeking the effect
compliance with its requirements imposed under this section, an agency is
authorized to terminate or to refuse to grant or to continue assistance under a
program to any recipient as to whom there has been an express finding pursuant
to a hearing of a failure to comply with the requirements under that program,
and it may also employ any other means authorized by law. However, each agency
is directed first to seek compliance with its requirements by voluntary means.
Section 603 provides that any agency action taken pursuant to section
602 shall be subject to such judicial review as would be available for similar
actions by that agency on other grounds. Where the agency action consists of
terminating or refusing to grant or to continue financial assistance because of
a finding of a failure of the recipient to comply with the agency's requirements
imposed under section 602, and the agency action would not otherwise be subject
to judicial review under existing law, judicial review shall nevertheless be
available to any person aggrieved as provided in section 10 of the
Administrative Procedure Act (5 USC 1009). The section also states explicitly
that in the latter situation such agency action shall not be deemed committed to
unreviewable agency discretion within the meaning of section 10. The purpose of
this provision is to obviate the possible argument that although section 603
provides for review in accordance with section 10, section 10 itself has an
exception for action "committed to agency discretion," which might otherwise be
carried over into section 603. It is not the purpose of this provision of
section 603, however, otherwise to alter the scope of judicial review as
presently provided in section 10(e) of the Administrative Procedure Act.
United States Department of
Transportation - Federal Highway Administration
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