---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000e–17"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2000e–17"
heading: "Procedure for denial, withholding, termination, or suspension of Government contract subsequent to acceptance by Government of affirmative action plan of employer; time of acceptance of plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2000e-17"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter VI — Equal Employment Opportunities"
---

# §2000e–17. Procedure for denial, withholding, termination, or suspension of Government contract subsequent to acceptance by Government of affirmative action plan of employer; time of acceptance of plan


No Government contract, or portion thereof, with any [employer](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=b), shall be denied, withheld, terminated, or suspended, by any [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or officer of the United States under any equal employment opportunity law or order, where such [employer](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=b) has an affirmative action plan which has previously been accepted by the Government for the same facility within the past twelve months without first according such [employer](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=b) full hearing and adjudication under the provisions of [section 554 of title 5](/usc/5/554.md), and the following pertinent sections: Provided, That if such [employer](/usc/42/2000e.md?p=b) has deviated substantially from such previously agreed to affirmative action plan, this section shall not apply: Provided further, That for the purposes of this section an affirmative action plan shall be deemed to have been accepted by the Government at the time the appropriate compliance [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) has accepted such plan unless within forty-five days thereafter the Office of Federal Contract Compliance has disapproved such plan.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–352, title VII, § 718, as added Pub. L. 92–261, § 13, Mar. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 113.)