Common use of Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency Clause in Contracts

Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency. Executive Order13166 seeks to improve access to federally assisted programs and activities for individuals who, because of national origin, have Limited English Proficiency (LEP). Recipients and subrecipients of HUD funds shall take reasonable steps to ensure meaningful language access to their programs and activities to persons with LEP. As an aid to recipients and subrecipients, HUD published Final Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons (LEP Guidance) in the Federal Register on January 22, 2007 (72 FR 2731). The LEP guidance and additional information is available here: Federal Register.