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Attachment A Program Guidelines Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency (guards against Title VI national origin discrimination/discrimination because of limited English proficiency (LEP) by ensuring that funding recipients take reasonable stepsto ensure that LEP persons have meaningful access to programs (70 FR at 74087 to 74100). THE DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE ACT OF 1988 (41 U.S.C. 8103) The State will provide a drug-free workplace by: a)Publishing a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the grantee's workplace and specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violation of such prohibition; b)Establishing a drug-free awareness program to inform employees about: o The dangers of drug abuse in the workplace. o The grantee's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace. o Any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs. o The penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug violations occurring in the workplace. o Making ita requirement that each employee engaged in the performance of the grant be given a copy of the statement required by paragraph (a). c)Notifying the employee in the statement required by paragraph (a) that, as a condition of employment under the grant, the employee will o Abide by the terms of the statement. o Notify the employer of any criminal drug statute conviction for a violation occurring in the workplace nolater than five days after such conviction. d)Notifying the agency within ten days after receiving notice under subparagraph (c)(2) from an employee or otherwise receiving actual notice of such conviction. e)Taking one of the following actions, within 30 days of receiving notice under subparagraph (c)(2), with respect to any employee who is so convicted o Taking appropriate personnel action against suchan employee, upto and including termination. o Requiring such employee to participate satisfactorily in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation program approved for such purposes by a Federal, State, or local health, law enforcement, or other appropriate agency. f)Making a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace through implementation of all of the paragraphs above. POLITICAL ACTIVITY (HATCH ACT) (applies to subrecipients as well as States) The State will comply with provisions of the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. 1501-1508), which limits the political activities of employees whose principal employment activities are funded in whole or in part with Federal funds.