; Whereas the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is charged with administration of the FHA, and has promulgated rules to clarify the application of disparate impact to FHA cases; Whereas the EPA’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office (ECRCO) (formerly Office of Civil Rights (OCR)), within the Office of General Counsel, is charged with enforcing civil rights under title VI and since 1973 has prohibited recipients of EPA financial assistance from taking actions in their programs or activities that are intentionally discriminatory and/or have a discriminatory effect; Whereas the Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights is responsible for ensuring that recipients of Federal funds from that agency conduct their federally assisted programs and activities in a nondiscriminatory manner in compliance with title VI; Whereas the Office for Civil Rights for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) ensures that recipients of financial assistance from OJP comply with Federal antidiscrimination laws, including title VI; Whereas a DOJ memo was recently leaked to the Washington Post in which senior Civil Rights Division officials were directed to examine how decades-old disparate impact regulations might be changed or removed … and what the impact might be ; Whereas the Washington Post reports that similar directives to eliminate regulations using disparate impact analysis are being considered at the Department of Education and are already underway at the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Whereas Federal agencies under both Democratic and Republican administrations have a history of bringing title VI disparate impact claims