---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 1040.61"
title: "10"
number: "1040.61"
heading: "Purpose and application."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/1040.61"
---

# §1040.61. Purpose and application.

- (a) **The purpose of this subpart is to implement sec.** 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which is designed to eliminate discrimination on the basis of handicap in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
- (b) This subpart applies to each recipient or subrecipient of Federal financial assistance from DOE and to each program or activity that receives assistance.

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 40515, June 13, 1980, as amended at 68 FR 51347, Aug. 26, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1681-1686; 29 U.S.C. 794; 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-7, 3601-3631, 5891, 6101-6107, 7101 et seq.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 40515, June 13, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 40515, June 13, 1980, as amended at 68 FR 51347, Aug. 26, 2003]