[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70913-70914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30213]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION


Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or 
Activities; Receiving Federal Financial Assistance

AGENCY: Office of Civil Rights, GSA.

ACTION: Notice of GSA financial assistance subject to Title IX of the 
Education Amendments of 1972, as amended.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Subpart F of the final common rule for the 
enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended 
(``Title IX''), this notice lists Federal financial assistance 
administered by the GSA that is covered by Title IX. Title IX prohibits 
recipients of Federal financial assistance from discriminating on the 
basis of sex in education programs or activities. Subpart F of the 
Title IX common rule requires each Federal agency that awards Federal 
financial assistance to publish in the Federal Register a notice of the 
Federal financial assistance covered by the Title IX regulations within 
sixty (60) days after the effective date of the final common rule. The 
final common rule for the enforcement of Title IX was published in the 
Federal Register by twenty-one (21) Federal agencies, including GSA, on 
August 30, 2000 (65 FR 52857). GSA's portion of the final common rule 
will be codified at 41 CFR part 101-4.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title IX prohibits recipients of Federal 
financial assistance from discrimination on the basis of sex in 
educational programs or activities. Specifically, the statute states 
that ``[no] person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be 
excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be 
subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity 
receiving Federal financial assistance,'' with specific exceptions for 
various entities, programs, and activities. 20 U.S.C. 1681(a). Title IX 
and the Title IX common rule prohibit discrimination on the basis of 
sex in the operation of, and the provision or denial of benefits by, 
education programs or activities conducted not only by educational 
institutions but by other entities as well, including, for example, law 
enforcement agencies, departments of corrections, and for profit and 
nonprofit organizations.

List of Federal Financial Assistance Administered by the General 
Services Administration to Which Title IX Applies

    Note: All recipients of Federal financial assistance from GSA 
are subject to Title IX, but Title IX's anti-discrimination 
prohibitions are limited to the educational components of the 
recipient's program or activity, if any. Failure to list a type of 
Federal assistance below shall not mean, if Title IX is otherwise 
applicable, that a program or activity is not covered by Title IX.

    1. Donation of surplus personal property to educational activities 
which are of special interest to the armed services (section 203(j)(2) 
of the Federal

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Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 40 U.S.C. 484(j)(2)).
    2. Donation of surplus personal property for use in any State for 
purposes of education, public health, or civil defense, or for research 
for any such purposes (section 203(j) (3) and (4) of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 40 U.S.C. 484(j) (3) 
and (4)), and the making available to State agencies for surplus 
property, or the transfer of title to such agencies, of surplus 
personal property approved for donation for purposes of education, 
public health, or civil defense, or for research for any such purposes 
(section 203(n) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949, 40 U.S.C. 484(n)).
    3. Disposal of surplus real and related personal property for 
purposes of education or public health, including research (section 
203(k)(1) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949, 40 U.S.C. 484(k)(1)).
    4. Donation of property for public airport purposes (section 13(g) 
of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, 50 U.S.C. App. 1622(g); section 23 
of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, Public Law 91-258).
    5. Disposal of surplus real property, including improvements, for 
use as a historic monument (section 13(h) of the Surplus Property Act 
of 1944, 50 U.S.C. App. 1622(h)).
    6. Disposal of surplus real and related personal property for 
public park or public recreational purposes (section 203(k)(2) of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 40 U.S.C. 
484(k)(2).
    7. Disposal of real property to States for wildlife conservation 
purposes (Act of May 19, 1948, 16 U.S.C. 667b-d).
    8. Donation of personal property to public bodies (section 202(h) 
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 40 
U.S.C. 483(h)).
    9. Grants of easements by the General Services Administration 
pursuant to the Act of October 23, 1962, (40 U.S.C. 319-319(c), and 
grants by the General Services Administration of revocable licenses or 
permits to use or occupy Federal real property, if the consideration to 
the Government for such easement, licenses, or permits is less than 
estimated fair market value.
    10. Conveyance of real property or interests therein by the General 
Services Administration to States or political subdivisions for street 
widening purposes pursuant to the Act of July 7, 1960 (40 U.S.C. 345c), 
if the consideration to the Government is less than estimated fair 
market value.
    11. Allotment of space by the General Services Administration in 
Federal buildings to Federal Credit Unions, without charge for rent or 
services (section 25 of the Federal Credit Union Act, 12 U.S.C. 1770).
    12. Donation of surplus property to the American National Red Cross 
(section 203(l) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949, 40 U.S.C. 484(l)).
    13. Provision by the General Services Administration of free space 
and utilities for vending stands operated by blind persons (section 1 
of the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. 107).
    14. Donation of forfeited distilled spirits, wine, and malt 
beverages to eleemosynary institutions (26 U.S.C. 5688).
    15. Donation of surplus Federal records (Federal Records Disposal 
Act of 1943, 44 U.S.C. 366-380).
    16. Grants to State and local agencies and to nonprofit 
organizations and institutions for the collecting, describing, 
preserving and compiling, and publishing of documentary sources 
significant to the history of the United States (section 503 of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended by 
Public Law 88-383).
    17. Loan of machine tools and industrial manufacturing equipment in 
the national industrial reserve to nonprofit educational institutions 
or training schools (section 7 of the National Industrial Reserve Act 
of 1948, 50 U.S.C. 456).
    18. District of Columbia grant-in-aid hospital program (60 Stat. 
896, as amended).
    19. Disposal of surplus real property for use in the provision of 
rental or cooperative housing to be occupied by families or individuals 
of low or moderate income (section 414 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1969, Public Law 91-152).
    20. Payments in lieu of taxes on certain real property transferred 
from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Title VII of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 40 U.S.C. 521-524).
    21. Conveyance of certain lands and property to the State of Hawaii 
without reimbursement (Pub. L. 88-233, 77 Stat. 472).

    Dated: November 21, 2000.
James M. Taylor,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Civil Rights, General 
Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-30213 Filed 11-27-00; 8:45 am]
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