---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 56.10"
title: "32"
number: "56.10"
heading: "Ensuring compliance with this part in programs and activities conducted by the Department of Defense."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/56.10"
---

# §56.10. Ensuring compliance with this part in programs and activities conducted by the Department of Defense.

- (a) **Supplementary guidelines.**
  - (1) Whenever necessary, the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, shall publish supplementary guidelines for programs and activities that are conducted by DoD Components and that are subject to this Directive. Prior to their issuance, the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, shall submit supplementary guidelines prepared pursuant to this subsection to the Coordination and Review Section, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, for review.
  - (2) The heads of DoD Components, or designees, shall be responsible for keeping the supplementary guidelines described in this section current and accurate. When a DoD Component head determines that a program or activity should be added to or deleted from the guidelines, that official shall notify the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, in writing.
- (b) **Staff responsibilities.** The ASD(MRA&L), or designee, shall determine DoD Component compliance with this part as it pertains to programs and activities that are conducted by DoD Components and are subject to this part.
- (c) **Filing of complaints.**
  - (1) Complaints of discrimination in a program or activity conducted by a DoD Component may be filed directly with the ASD(MRA&L), or designee.
  - (2) DoD Components shall develop procedures, such as posters or other devices, to notify participants in the programs and activities listed in [§ 56.7(c)](/cfr/32/56.7.md?p=c) of their right to be free of discrimination because of handicap in those programs and activities and of their right to file complaints of discrimination with the ASD(MRA&L), or designee.
- (d) **Investigations of complaints.**
  - (1) The ASD(MRA&L), or designee, shall investigate complaints of discrimination in programs and activities that are conducted by DoD Components and are subject to this part.
  - (2) A case record of each investigation shall be compiled in accordance with [§ 56.9(j)(2)](/cfr/32/56.9.md?p=j-2).
- (e) **Results of investigations.** If the complaint investigation results in a determination by the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, that a DoD Component's program or activity is not complying with [§ 56.9](/cfr/32/56.9.md), the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, shall proceed as prescribed in [§ 56.9 (n) through (v)](/cfr/32/56.9.md?p=n..v). Hearings prescribed under [§ 56.9(r)](/cfr/32/56.9.md?p=r) however, need not be conducted. If the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, determines that the DoD Component is in compliance, the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, shall notify the complainant within 15 calendar days of such determination.
- (f) **Written notice.** If an investigative report concludes that there has been a violation of this part in a program or activity conducted by a DoD Component and the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, accepts that conclusion, that official shall issue to the head of the DoD Component a written notice describing the apparent violation, the corrective actions necessary to achieve compliance, and a suspense date for completion of the corrective actions.
- (g) **Effecting compliance.** When necessary to overcome the effects of discrimination in violation of this part the ASD(MRA&L), or designee, may require a DoD Component to take remedial action similar to that in [§ 56.9(n)(2)](/cfr/32/56.9.md?p=n-2).
- (h) **Employment.** DoD Components that conduct Federal programs or activities covered by this part that involve employment of civilian persons to conduct such a program or activity must comply with section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the implementing rules and regulations of the EEOC.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 93-112, sec. 504 29 U.S.C. 794, as amended by Pub. L. 95-602, 92 Stat. 2982; Pub. L. 93-112, sec. 7, 29 U.S.C. 706, as amended by Pub. L. 93-516, 88 Stat. 1619; Executive Order 12250; Executive Order 12291; Executive Order 12067.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 15124, Apr. 8, 1982, unless otherwise noted.