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EXHIBIT B
<br />NONDISCRIMINATION ASSURANCES
<br />ADMINISTERING AGENCY HEREBY AGREES THAT, as a condition to receiving any federal
<br />financial assistance from the STATE, acting for the U.S. Department of Transportation, it will
<br />comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat, 252, 42 U.S.C., 2000d-42 U.S.C.
<br />2000d-4 (hereinafter referred to as the ACT), and all requirements imposed by or pursuant to Title
<br />49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the
<br />Secretary, Part 21, "Nondiscrimination in Federally -Assisted Programs of the Department of
<br />Transportation - Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (hereinafter referred to as
<br />the REGULATIONS), the Federal -aid Highway Act of 1973, and other pertinent directives, to the
<br />end that in accordance with the ACT, REGULATIONS, and other pertinent directives, no person in
<br />the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age or
<br />disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to
<br />discrimination under any program or activity for which ADMINISTERING AGENCY receives
<br />federal financial assistance from the Federal Department of Transportation. ADMINISTERING
<br />AGENCY HEREBY GIVES ASSURANCE THAT ADMINISTERING AGENCY will promptly take
<br />any measures necessary to effectuate this agreement. This assurance is required by subsection
<br />21.7(a) (1) of the REGULATIONS.
<br />More specifically, and without limiting the above general assurance, ADMINISTERING AGENCY
<br />hereby gives the following specific assurances with respect to its federal -aid Program:
<br />1. That ADMINISTERING AGENCY agrees that each "program" and each 'facility" as defined in
<br />subsections 21.23 (e) and 21.23 (b) of the REGULATIONS, will be (with regard to a "program")
<br />conducted, or will be (with regard to a "facility") operated in compliance with all requirements
<br />imposed by, or pursuant to, the REGULATIONS.
<br />2. That ADMINISTERING AGENCY shall insert the following notification in all solicitations for bids
<br />for work or material subject to the REGULATIONS made in connection with the federal -aid
<br />Program and, in adapted form, in all proposals for negotiated agreements:
<br />ADMINISTERING AGENCY hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively Insure that in any
<br />agreement entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be
<br />afforded fulkopportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated
<br />against on the grounds of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, or disability in
<br />consideration for an award.
<br />3. That ADMINISTERING AGENCY shall insert the clauses of Appendix A of this assurance in
<br />every agreement subject to the ACT and the REGULATIONS.
<br />4. That the clauses of Appendix B of this Assurance shall be included as a covenant running with
<br />the land, in any deed effecting a transfer of real property, structures, or improvements thereon, or
<br />interest therein.
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