PUBLIC LAW 105-114 —NOV. 21, 1997 111 STAT. 2279 "(C) The Under Secretary for Health and the Under Secretary for Benefits. "(D) Each Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs and each Deputy Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "(E) The Director of the National Cemetery System. "(F) The General Counsel of the Department. "(G) The Chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals. "(H) The Chairman of the Board of Contract Appeals of the Department. "(I) The director and the chief of staff of each medical center of the Department. "(J) The director of each Veterans Integrated Services Network. "(K) The director of each regional office of the Department. "(L) Each program director of the Central Office of the Department. "(3) Each report under this subsection— "(A) may not disclose information which identifies the individuals filing, or the individuals who are the subject of, the complaints concerned or the facilities at which the discrimination identified in such complaints is alleged to have occurred; "(B) shall summarize such complaints by t5^e amd by equal employment opportunity field office area in which filed; and "(C) shall include copies of such complaints, with the information described in subparagraph (A) redacted. "(4) Not later than April 1 each year, the Assistant Secretary shall submit to the committees referred to in paragraph (1)(A) a report on the complaints covered by paragraph (1) during the preceding year, including the number of such complaints filed during that year and the status and resolution of the investigation of such complaints. "(f) The Secretary shall ensure that an employee of the Department who seeks counseling relating to emplo5m[ient discrimination may elect to receive such counseling from an employee of the Department who carries out equal employment opportunity counseling functions on a full-time basis rather than from an employee of the Department who carries out such functions on a part-time basis. "(g) The number of employees of the Department whose duties include equal employment opportunity counseling fimctions as well as other, unrelated mnctions may not exceed 40 full-time equivalent employees. Any such employee may be assigned equal employment opportunity counseling functions only at Department facilities in remote geographic locations (as determined by the Secretary). The Secretary may waive the limitation in the preceding sentence in specific cases. "(h) The provisions of this section shall be implemented in a manner consistent with procedures applicable under regulations prescribed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.". (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 515 the following new item: "516. Equal employment responsibilities. ". (b) REPORTS.—(1) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall sub- 38 USC 516 note, mit to Congress reports on the implementation and operation of the equal employment opportunity system within the Department of Veterans Affairs. The first such report shall be submitted not
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