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, THE C NPTROLLER GENERAL
At DECISION \I OF T E UNITED STATES
SVVAS H IN G TON, 0 C 20548
FILE: B-193144 DATE: September 15, 1980
MATTER OF: E ual Employment Opportunity Commission
Administrative Payment of Attorneys Fee
DIGEST: 1. _EEOC may provide in its regulations for
administrative payment of attorneys fees
to prevailing party in Federal employee
complaints filed under Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, as amended, since scope of
regulatory and judicial authority is same
as granted under Title VII of Civil Rights
Act of 1964, as amended.
2. (EEOC may provide in its regulations for
administrative payment of attorneys fees
to prevailing party in Federal employee
complaints filed under Age Discrimination
in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967, as
amended. Scope of authority granted to
EEOC to regulate is virtually the same
as granted in Title VII of Civil Rights
Act of 1964, as amended, and legislative
history of 1978 amendments to ADEA shows
no intent to deprive prevailing Federal
employees of right available to non-Federal
employees to receive attorneys fees .awards.
We have been asked whether the Equal Employment
Opporunity Commission (EEOC) may include, in its
regulations, provisions for the payment at the adminis-
trative level of attorneys fees to prevailing parties
in handicap and age discrimination cases.] For the
reasons set forth below, we hold that the EEOC, if it
chooses to do so, may provide for payment of attorneys
fees to prevailing parties at the administrative level
in those cases.
'The EEOC has issued interim revised regulations
implementing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,J
-as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-16 et sec. (Title VII),
(which include provisions for the payment of attorneys
fees at the administrative level. 45 Fed. Reg. 24130
(1980). LQThey wish to include provisions for the payment
of attorneys fees in connection with complaints brought](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadioi0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)