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NPR 3713.1B Eff. Date: March 02, 2015 Cancellation Date:	Reasonable Accommodations Procedures
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Preface

P.1 Purpose

employees, including managers and supervisors, who request, receive, coordinate, review, process, and decide requests for reasonable accommodation at NASA Headquarters (HQ) and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities. ¹

b. This NPR is intended to assist NASA in fulfilling its obligation to ensure that individuals with disabilities who are qualified, that is, able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, and who request reasonable accommodation, receive a prompt and proper response. ²

c. Further, this NPR establishes criteria for collecting and annually reporting data on the numbers and types of reasonable accommodation requests received and processed at NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities.

P.2 Applicability

a. This NPR is applicable to NASA HQ and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities and Technical and Service Support Centers.

b. In this directive, all mandatory actions (i.e., requirements) are denoted by statements containing the term "shall." The terms: "may" or "can" denote discretionary privilege or permission, "should" denotes a good practice and is recommended, but is not required, "will" denotes expected outcome, and "are/is" denotes descriptive material.

c. In this directive, all document citations are assumed to be the latest version, unless otherwise noted.

P.3 Authority

a. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Sections 501, 504, and 508 of, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 791, 794, 794d.

b. Requiring Federal Agencies To Establish Procedures To Facilitate the Provision of Reasonable Accommodation, E.O. 13164, 3 CFR § 286 (2000).

c. NPD 3713.8, Provision of Reasonable Accommodation for Individuals With Disabilities.

¹ This NPR is not intended to cover those situations where an employee has a transitory and minor medical condition that does not constitute a disability (see Appendix A, "Individual With a Disability" definition).

² See Appendix A for definitions of key terminology, such as reasonable accommodation, essential functions, qualified, and individual with a disability.

P.4 Applicable Documents and Forms

a. Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. § 552a.

b. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.

c. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, 42 U.S.C. § 3000ff et seq.

d. Federal Sector Equal Employment Opportunity, 29 CFR Part 1614.

e. Regulations to Implement the Equal Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as Amended, 29 CFR Part 1630.

f. Regulations under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, 29 CFR Part 1635.

g. Privacy Act-NASA Regulations, 14 CFR Part 1212.

h. NPR 1441.1, NASA Records Retention Schedules.

i. NF 1534, Privacy Act Cover Sheet.

j. NF1699, Confirmation of Request For Reasonable Accommodation.

k. NF 1699A, Disposition of Reasonable Accommodation Request.

P.5 Measurement/Verification

a. Compliance with the requirements of this NPR will be verified by:

(1) ODEO shall prepare a reasonable accommodations report annually no later than October 31, to be utilized in NASA's equal employment opportunity (EEO) strategic planning, for example, development of the Model EEO Agency Plan.

(2) The report will contain information regarding requests for reasonable accommodation, presented in the aggregate, as detailed in Chapter 5, Section 5.2.

P.6 Cancellation

NPR 3713.1A, Reasonable Accommodations Procedures, dated March 28, 2008.

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