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citation: "29 C.F.R. §§ 38.25–38.27"
title: "29"
from: "38.25"
to: "38.27"
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url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/38.25..38.27"
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# §38.25. A grant applicant's obligation to provide a written assurance.

- (a) **Grant applicant's obligation to provide a written assurance.**
  - (1) Each application for financial assistance, under Title I of WIOA, as defined in [§ 38.4](/cfr/29/38.4.md), must include the following assurance:
    - (i) As a condition to the award of financial assistance from the Department of Labor under Title I of WIOA, the grant applicant assures that it has the ability to comply with the nondiscrimination and equal opportunity provisions of the following laws and will remain in compliance for the duration of the award of federal financial assistance:
      - (A) [Section 188](/cfr/29/188.md) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which prohibits discrimination against all individuals in the United States on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, transgender status, and gender identity), national origin (including limited English proficiency), age, disability, or political affiliation or belief, or against beneficiaries on the basis of either citizenship status or participation in any WIOA Title I-financially assisted program or activity;
      - (B) Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, which prohibits discrimination on the bases of race, color and national origin;
      - (C) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities;
      - (D) The Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of age; and
      - (E) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs.
    - (ii) The grant applicant also assures that, as a recipient of WIOA Title I financial assistance, it will comply with [29 CFR part 38](/cfr/29/part38.md) and all other regulations implementing the laws listed above. This assurance applies to the grant applicant's operation of the WIOA Title I-financially assisted program or activity, and to all agreements the grant applicant makes to carry out the WIOA Title I-financially assisted program or activity. The grant applicant understands that the United States has the right to seek judicial enforcement of this assurance.
  - (2) The assurance is considered incorporated by operation of law in the grant, cooperative agreement, contract or other arrangement whereby Federal financial assistance under Title I of WIOA is made available, whether it is explicitly incorporated in such document and whether there is a written agreement between the Department and the recipient, between the Department and the Governor, between the Governor and the recipient, or between recipients. The assurance also may be incorporated in such grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, or other arrangements by reference.
- (b) **Continuing State Programs.** Each Strategic Four-Year State Plan submitted by a State to carry out a continuing WIOA financially assisted program or activity must provide the text of the assurance in [paragraph (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section, as a condition to the approval of the Four-Year Plan and the extension of any WIOA Title I assistance under the Plan. The State also must certify that it has developed and maintains a Nondiscrimination Plan under [§ 38.54](/cfr/29/38.54.md).

# §38.26. Duration and scope of the assurance.

- (a) Where the WIOA Title I financial assistance is intended to provide, or is in the form of, either personal property, real property, structures on real property, or interest in any such property or structures, the assurance will obligate the recipient, or (in the case of a subsequent transfer) the transferee, for the longer of:
  - (1) **The period during which the property is used either—**
    - (i) For a purpose for which WIOA Title I financial assistance is extended; or
    - (ii) For another purpose involving the provision of similar services or benefits; or
  - (2) **The period during which either—**
    - (i) The recipient retains ownership or possession of the property; or
    - (ii) The transferee retains ownership or possession of the property without compensating the Departmental grantmaking agency for the fair market value of that ownership or possession.
- (b) In all other cases, the assurance will obligate the recipient for the period during which WIOA Title I financial assistance is extended.

# §38.27. Covenants.

- (a) Where WIOA Title I financial assistance is provided in the form of a transfer of real property, structures, or improvements on real property or structures, or interests in real property or structures, the instrument effecting or recording the transfer must contain a covenant assuring nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for the period described in [§ 38.25(a)(1)](/cfr/29/38.25.md?p=a-1).
- (b) Where no Federal transfer of real property or interest therein from the Federal Government is involved, but real property or an interest therein is acquired or improved under a program of WIOA Title I financial assistance, the recipient must include the covenant described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section in the instrument effecting or recording any subsequent transfer of such property.
- (c) When the property is obtained from the Federal Government, the covenant described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section also may include a condition coupled with a right of reverter to the Department in the event of a breach of the covenant.