# 20 CFR § 654.400: Scope and purpose

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.400

## Section

- **Citation:** 20 CFR § 654.400
- **Heading:** Scope and purpose
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** September 22, 2026
- **Source:** Publisher's official text
- **Location:** Title 20—Employees' Benefits > CHAPTER V—EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR > PART 654—SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE SYSTEM > Subpart E—Housing for Farmworkers > Purpose and Applicability

## Text

(a) This subpart sets forth the Department's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) standards for agricultural housing and variances. Local Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) offices, as part of the State ES agencies and in cooperation with the ES program, assist employers in recruiting farmworkers from places outside the area of intended employment. The experiences of the ES agencies indicate that employees so referred have on many occasions been provided with inadequate, unsafe, and unsanitary housing conditions. To discourage this practice, it is the policy of the Federal-State ES system to deny its intrastate and interstate recruitment services to employers until the State ES agency has ascertained that the employer's housing meets certain standards.
(b) To implement this policy, § 653.501 of this chapter provides that recruitment services must be denied unless the employer has signed an assurance that if the workers are to be housed, a preoccupancy inspection has been conducted, and the ES staff has ascertained that, with respect to intrastate or interstate clearance orders, the employer's housing meets the full set of standards set forth at 29 CFR 1910.142 or this subpart, except that mobile range housing for sheepherders or goatherders must meet existing Departmental guidelines and/or applicable regulations.

## Nearby sections

- [20 CFR § 654.400 § 654.400 Scope and purpose.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.400.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.401 § 654.401 Applicability.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.401.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.402 § 654.402 Variances.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.402.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.404 § 654.404 Housing site.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.404.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.405 § 654.405 Water supply.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.405.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.406 § 654.406 Excreta and liquid waste disposal.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.406.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.407 § 654.407 Housing.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.407.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.408 § 654.408 Screening.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.408.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.409 § 654.409 Heating.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.409.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.410 § 654.410 Electricity and lighting.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.410.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.411 § 654.411 Toilets.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.411.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.412 § 654.412 Bathing, laundry, and hand washing.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.412.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.413 § 654.413 Cooking and eating facilities.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.413.md)
- [20 CFR § 654.414 § 654.414 Garbage and other refuse.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-20-654.414.md)

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