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GAO
United States General Accounting Office Office of
Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel
In Reply
Refer to: B-200080 (VEG)
September 24, 1980
Mr. Leroy D. Clark
General Counsel
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
Washington, D.C. 20506
Dear Mr. Clark:
This refers to your letter of August 22, 1980, in
which you ask whether bhnvILat ions to the
Equal Employment Opport - onissiori-proposed
regulations which would allow agencies t award back-
pay to app _cants for employment who are aggrieved by
handicap discrimination. We have no objection to the
proposed regulations for the following reasons.
The Rehabilitation Act. of 1973 was amended by
Public Law 95-602, NTovember 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2955,
2982 adding, inter alia, a new section 505 to the Act,
29 U.S.C. § 794a. Section 505(a)(1) provides:
(a)(1) The remedies, procedures,
and rights set forth in section 717 of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, [42 U.S.C.
2000e-16], including the application of
sections 706(f) through 706(k), [42 U.S.C.
2000 e-5(f) through (k)], shall be avail-
able, with respect to any complaint under
section 791 of this title, to any employee
or applicant for employment aggrieved by
the final disposition of such complaint,
or by the failure to take final action
on such complaint. In fashioning an
equitable or affirmative action remedy
under such section, a court may take
into account the reasonableness of the
cost of any necessary work place accommo-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobabjwe0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)