[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 237 (Friday, December 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76983-76984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31257]


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AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT


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

AGENCY: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

ACTION: Notice of U.S. Agency for International Development 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 USAID 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 USAID, 
on August 30, 2000, 65 FR 52857-52895). USAID's portion of the final 
common rule will be codified at 22 CFR part 229.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title IX prohibits recipients of federal 
financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of sex in 
educational programs or activities. Specifically, the statute states 
that ``[n]o 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.

List of Federal Financial Assistance Administered by the U.S. 
Agency for International Development to Which Title IX Applies

    Note: All domestic recipients of federal financial assistance 
from USAID 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.
    The following types of federal financial assistance were derived 
from Appendix A of USAID's regulations effectuating Title VI of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 22 U.S.C. Part 209, and section 504 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 22 U.S.C. Part 217.

    1. Assistance provided to organizations and institutions to carry 
on programs of technical cooperation and development in the United 
States to promote the economic development of less developed friendly 
countries.
    2. Assistance provided to organizations and institutions to carry 
on programs of technical cooperation and development in the United 
States to promote the economic development of the less developed 
friendly countries of Latin America.
    3. Assistance provided to organizations and institutions to carry 
out programs in the United States of research into, and evaluation of, 
economic development in less developed foreign countries.
    4. Assistance provided to research and educational institutions in 
the United States to strengthen their capacity to develop and carry out 
programs or activities concerned with the economic and social 
development of developing countries.
    5. Assistance provided to land grant and other qualified 
agricultural universities and colleges in the United States to develop 
their capabilities to assist developing countries in agricultural 
teaching, research and extension services.

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    6. Assistance provided to private and voluntary agencies, non-
profit organizations, educational institutions and other qualifieid 
organizations for programs or activities in the United States to 
promote the economic and social development of developing countries.
    7. Assistance provided to private and voluntary agencies, non-
profit organizations, educational institutions and other qualified 
organizations for programs or activities in the United States to 
promote the use of lessons learned from USAID economic and social 
development programs in developing countries.

    Dated: November 28, 2000.
Jessalyn L. Pendarvis,
Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, USAID.
[FR Doc. 00-31257 Filed 12-7-00; 8:45 am]
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