Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration Civil Rights Grant Assurances and Contract Clauses Presented To: 9 th Annual FAA National Civil Rights Training Conference Presenters: Nancy S Williams Operations Research Analyst FAA Office of Airports, on detail to FAA Office of Civil Rights Date: July 19, 2018
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Civil Rights Grant Assurances and Contract Clauses
Presented To: 9th Annual FAA National Civil Rights Training Conference
Presenters: Nancy S WilliamsOperations Research AnalystFAA Office of Airports, on detail to FAA Office of Civil Rights
Date: July 19, 2018
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Requirements
• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d, et seq.)
• Airport sponsors may not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, or national origin:– Deny any individual service, financial aid, or benefit under the
program.– Provide any service, financial aid, or benefit that is different
from that provided to others.– Subject an individual to segregation or separate treatment.
• Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C. § 47123) adds sex and creed.
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Source of Requirements
• Sponsors must meet the laws, regulations, Orders, and policies of the FAA and DOT.
• Airport Improvement Program (AIP) Grant Assurances: – Apply to any sponsor that has taken an AIP grant. – Are derived from statute (49 U.S.C. §§ 47105 -
47107, 49 U.S.C. § 47123).– For the civil rights assurance, are in effect for as
long as the airport is owned and operated as an airport.
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Source of Requirements
• FAA Advisory Circulars:“Application. …In general, use of this AC is not mandatory. However, use of this AC is mandatory for all projects funded …through the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and … the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) Program. See Grant Assurance No. 34 … and PFC Assurance No. 9, Standards and Specifications.”
Source: AC No: 150/5370-10G, 7/21/14Standards for Specifying Construction of Airports
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Source of Requirements
• Regulations– Listed in Grant Assurance No. 1.– Includes 49 C.F.R. Part 21 - Nondiscrimination in
federally-assisted programs of the U.S. Department of Transportation - effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Executive Orders• FAA and DOT Orders and Policy Documents
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AIP Grant Assurances
• AIP Grant Assurances are obligations that airports agree to when accepting an AIP grant.
• The assurances define what is required:– For FAA to approve a grant application (i.e., sponsor
must own an airport, having the local share).– For the sponsor to build the project (Davis Bacon
Wages, water and air quality).– For the sponsor to operate and maintain the airport
(such as keeping the runway safe).
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AIP Grant Assurances
Last update publishedon April 3, 2014.
All assurances are online:http://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/grant_assurances/
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NondiscriminationFAA Order 1400.11
Prescribes FAA operating procedures and responsibilities for:• Title VI of Civil Rights Act• Airport and Airway Improvement Act • Age Discrimination Act of 1975
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AIP Grant Assurances
No. 30 - Civil Rights
It will promptly take any measures necessary to ensure that no person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination in any activity conducted with, or benefiting from, funds received from this grant.
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Who Must Comply?
• The requirements may flow down to contractors and subcontractors, tenants, lessees, employees, and others.
• In many cases, the requirements apply even to local contracts, construction undertaken by airlines at the airport, and projects/activities that are unrelated to AIP itself.
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– AIP contracts– PFC contracts– Local contracts– Airline Construction Contracts
Federal Contract ClausesFAA Guidelines for AIP Contract Provisions
Purpose:• Consolidated resource for all
applicable provisions.• Identifies source of requirement.• Includes applicability matrix per
project type and size.• Identifies when language is
mandatory.• Provides model language
whenever mandatory language is not prescribed.
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Federal Contract ClausesAreas of Concern
General:• Missing AIP clauses.• Use of obsolete clauses (e.g. ADAP provisions).• Modifications made to mandatory language.• Failure to insert required information in spaces
requiring Sponsor input (e.g. name of sponsor).• State/Local clauses conflict with AIP clauses.• Extraneous clauses (i.e. inserting the entire federal
clause package).• Requirements don’t flow-down to sub-tier contracts.
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Federal Contract ClausesAreas of Concern
DBE:• Project goal vs Program goal ($ 250,000 threshold).• Non-compliant prompt payment provisions.• Non-compliant retainage requirements.
Nondiscrimination Requirements:• Failure to incorporate both Title VI and AIP statutory
language (§ 47123).
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Federal Contract ClausesAreas of Concern
Affirmative Action:• Failure to identify EEO
participation goals for minorities and females.
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Federal Contract ClausesAreas of Concern
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•The DBE regulation (49 CFR § 26.29) does not impact a sponsor’s ability to hold retainage from a prime contractor.
•The prime contractor is required to pay the subcontractor within 30 days of receiving partial payment from the sponsor.
Prompt PaymentFailure to pay subcontractors within required time periods because of misapplication of retainage.