Compliance and Evaluation
NASA works to realize the goals of the EO laws, both within and outside the Agency. Within NASA, we strive to become a model workplace for EEO. One of the tools in this effort is our Model EEO Agency Plan, issued annually to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). This plan, and related efforts such as reviews of EO operations at NASA Centers, assists the Agency to step back and assess EEO within our workplace.
Outside of NASA, the Agency advances EO among NASA grant recipients, such as universities, science centers, museums, and health care/research facilities. NASA evaluates grant recipients' EO compliance and reports on promising practices through desk audits and onsite reviews. The Agency is assisted in these efforts by the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and other Federal civil rights agencies.
The following Federal EO laws and mandates provide authority for ODEO compliance and evaluation activities:
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, sex, and religion. EEOC regulations and policy under Title VII require NASA to, among other things, conduct periodic reviews of its internal EO programs and prepare an annual Model Agency EEO Plan to identify and eliminate deficiencies within the Agency’s EEO programs and barriers to EEO that may relate to practices, policies or procedures.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Executive Order 13166 prohibit exclusion from participation in, denial of benefits of, and discrimination under Federally-assisted programs (e.g., universities and colleges receiving federal grant assistance) on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, including limited English proficiency (LEP). Pursuant to NASA’s Title VI regulations, the Agency conducts a program of onsite and desk-audit Title VI compliance reviews of grant recipients.
Executive Order 13166 reaffirms the requirement for federally assisted programs to ensure meaningful access to persons who are LEP and extends the requirement to federal conducted programs (i.e., programs conducted by the federal agency itself).
For additional information on NASA's policy and procedures regarding regarding Title VI and other grant related civil rights laws, such as Title IX (see below), please see the following publication:
+ Assisted Conducted Programs Brochure (English)
+ Assisted Conducted Programs Brochure [en Español]
(PDF 2.5MB)
For additional information on NASA's policy and procedures regarding affirming access to persons who are LEP within agency assisted and conducted programs, please see the following policy guidance and publication:
+ NASA Policy Guidance for Persons with Limited
English Proficiency (LEP)
(PDF 667KB)
+ LEP Brochure (PDF 1.3MB)
+ LEP Brochure [en Español] (PDF 1.4MB)
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits exclusion from participation in, denial of the benefits of, or discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Pursuant to NASA’s Title IX regulations, the Agency conducts a program of onsite and desk-audit Title IX compliance reviews of grant recipients.
Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Executive Order 13164
prohibit discrimination in Federal employment based on disability. The NASA Model Agency EEO Plan identifies barriers and deficiencies specifically pertaining to disability that may relate to practices, policies or procedures.
Executive Order 13164, issued in July 2000, requires Federal agencies to issue effective procedures to facilitate the provision of reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. NASA issued its reasonable accommodation procedures in 2002 and updated them in 2008.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits exclusion from participation in, denial of benefits of, and discrimination under Federally assisted programs on the grounds of disability. Pursuant to NASA’s Section 504 regulations, the Agency conducts a program of onsite and desk-audit Section 504 compliance reviews of grant recipients.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires Federal agencies to ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access and use of the information by members of the public who are not individuals with disabilities.
For additional information on NASA's policy and procedures regarding the processing of section 508 complaints, please see the following publication:
+ Brochure on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
(PDF 1.2MB)
+ Brochure on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
[en Español] (PDF 1.3MB)
Age Discrimination Act of 1975 prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance. Pursuant to NASA’s Age Discrimination Act regulations, the Agency conducts a program of onsite and desk-audit Age Discrimination Act compliance reviews of grant recipients.
Executive Order 13160 prohibits discrimination in Federally conducted education and training programs on the bases of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation, and parental status.
For additional information on NASA's policy and procedures regarding Executive Order 13160, please see the following publication:
+ Federally Conducted Education Programs Brochure
(PDF 616KB)
+ Federally Conducted Education Programs Brochure [en
Español] (PDF 380KB)
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