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[CITE: 42USC2000e-17]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 21--CIVIL RIGHTS
 
              SUBCHAPTER VI--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
 
Sec. 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, shall 
be denied, withheld, terminated, or suspended, by any agency or officer 
of the United States under any equal employment opportunity law or 
order, where such employer 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 full 
hearing and adjudication under the provisions of section 554 of title 5, 
and the following pertinent sections: Provided, That if such employer 
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 has accepted such plan unless within forty-five days 
thereafter the Office of Federal Contract Compliance has disapproved 
such plan.

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