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Show STATEMENT OF NONDISCRIMINATION Escalanto Valley Electric Ass'n. Inc. has filed with the Federal Government a Compliance Com-pliance Assurance in which it assures the Rural Electrification Electrifica-tion Administration that it will comply fully with all requirements re-quirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1961 and the Rules and Regulations of the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture issued thereunder, to the end that no person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color, or national na-tional origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise other-wise subjected to discrimination discrimina-tion in the conduct of its program pro-gram and the operation of its facilities. Under this Assurance, Assur-ance, this organization Is committed not to discrimate against any person on the grounds of race, color, or na- tional origin in its policies and practices relating to applications ap-plications for service or any other policies and practices relating to treatment of beneficiaries bene-ficiaries and participants including in-cluding rates, conditions and extension of service, use of any of its facilities, attendance attend-ance at and participation in any meetings of beneficiaries and participants or the exercise exer-cise of any rights of such beneficiaries and participants in the conduct of the operations opera-tions of this organization. "Any person who belives himself, or any tpecific class of individuals, to be subjected subject-ed by this organization to discrimination dis-crimination prohibited by Title VI of the Act and the Rules and Regulations issued thereunder there-under may. by himself or a representative, file with the Secretary of Agriclture, Washington, Wash-ington, D.C. 20250, or the Rural Rur-al Electrification Administration, Administra-tion, Washington, D.C 20250, or this organization, or all, a written complaint. Such cam plaint must be filed not later than 90 days after the alleged discrimination, or by such latter lat-ter date to which the Secretnrv of Agriculture or the Rural Electrification Administration extends the time for filing. Identity of complainants will be kept confidential except to the extent necessary to carry out the purposes of the Rules and Regulations." (Junc 8, 1972) |