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Subject: [CTRL] Executive Order on
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From:
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/8/11
/2.text.2
THE WHITE
HOUSE
Office of the Press
Secretary
(Aboard Air Force
One)
_________________________________________________________________________
For
Immediate
Release
August 11,
2000
EXECUTIVE ORDER
13166
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IMPROVING ACCESS TO SERVICES
FOR
PERSONS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, and to
improve access to federally
conducted and federally assisted
programs and activities for persons who,
as a result of national
origin, are limited in their English proficiency
(LEP), it is
hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Goals.
The Federal Government
provides and funds an array of
services that can be made accessible to
otherwise eligible
persons who are not proficient in the English
language. The
Federal Government is committed to improving the
accessibility of
these services to eligible LEP persons, a goal that
reinforces
its equally important commitment to promoting programs
and
activities designed to help individuals learn English. To
this
end, each Federal agency shall examine the services it provides
and
develop and implement a system by which LEP persons can
meaningfully access
those services consistent with, and without
unduly burdening, the
fundamental mission of the agency. Each
Federal agency shall also
work to ensure that recipients of
Federal financial assistance (recipients)
provide meaningful
access to their LEP applicants and beneficiaries.
To assist the
agencies with this endeavor, the Department of Justice has
today
issued a general guidance document (LEP Guidance), which
sets
forth the compliance standards that recipients must follow
to
ensure that the programs and activities they normally provide
in
English are accessible to LEP persons and thus do not
discriminate on
the basis of national origin in violation of
title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, as amended, and its
implementing regulations. As described in
the LEP Guidance,
recipients must take reasonable steps to ensure
meaningful access
to their programs and activities by LEP
persons.
Sec. 2. Federally Conducted
Programs and Activities.
Each Federal agency
shall prepare a plan to improve access
to its federally conducted programs
and activities by eligible
LEP persons. Each plan shall be consistent with
the standards set
forth in the LEP Guidance, and shall include the steps
the agency
will take to ensure that eligible LEP persons can
meaningfully
access the agency's programs and activities. Agencies
shall
develop and begin to implement these plans within 120 days of
the
date of this order, and shall send copies of their plans to
the
Department of Justice, which shall serve as the central
repository
of the agencies' plans.
Sec. 3.
Federally Assisted Programs and Activities.
Each agency providing Federal financial assistance shall
draft title VI
guidance specifically tailored to its recipients
that is consistent with
the LEP Guidance issued by the Department
of Justice. This agency-specific
guidance shall detail how the
general standards established in the LEP
Guidance will be applied
to the agency's recipients. The
agency-specific guidance shall
take into account the types of services
provided by the
recipients, the individuals served by the recipients, and
other
factors set out in the LEP Guidance. Agencies that already
have
developed title VI guidance that the Department of
Justice
determines is consistent with the LEP Guidance shall
examine
their existing guidance, as well as their programs
and
activities, to determine if additional guidance is necessary
to
comply with this order. The Department of Justice shall
consult
with the agencies in creating their guidance and, within 120
days
of the date of this order, each agency shall submit its
specific
guidance to the Department of Justice for review and
approval.
Following approval by the Department of Justice, each
agency
shall publish its guidance document in the Federal Register
for
public comment.
Sec. 4.
Consultations.
In carrying out this order,
agencies shall ensure that
stakeholders, such as LEP persons and their
representative
organizations, recipients, and other appropriate individuals
or
entities, have an adequate opportunity to provide input.
Agencies
will evaluate the particular needs of the LEP persons
they and their
recipients serve and the burdens of compliance on
the agency and its
recipients. This input from stakeholders will
assist the agencies in
developing an approach to ensuring
meaningful access by LEP persons that is
practical and effective,
fiscally responsible, responsive to the particular
circumstances
of each agency, and can be readily
implemented.
Sec. 5. Judicial
Review.
This order is intended only to improve
the internal
management of the executive branch and does not create any
right
or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law
or
equity by a party against the United States, its agencies,
its
officers or employees, or any
person.
WILLIAM J.
CLINTON
THE WHITE
HOUSE,
August 11,
2000.
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