*935MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Alleging jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1331 (federal question) and section 1337 (Congressional acts regulating commerce), plaintiff James Anderson brings this action under section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 701, et seq. (P.L. 93-112, 87 Stat. 357, Sept. 26, 1973, as amended) (the Act).
Plaintiff, alleging to be handicapped, sues defendants Erie Lackawanna Railway Company (Erie) and its successor the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) for violations of their obligations in contracts with the United States government to engage in affirmative action to employ handicapped individuals. These provisions are made a part of certain government contracts for the procurement of personal property and services by section 503, 29 U.S.C. § 793.1
Alleging jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1361, “Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty,” Mr. Anderson names Secretary Ray Marshall of the United States Department of Labor as a defendant and seeks an order directing the Secretary to promptly investigate his complaint.
In his complaint, Mr. Anderson alleges: He was employed by Erie as a fireman in April, 1971. An Erie physician found plaintiff’s “color perception to be acceptable at this time” and acceptable at two annual physical exams thereafter. In an exam performed in July, 1973, plaintiff failed a test related to being upgraded to engineer “because of an inability to perceive certain colors. . . . ” On August 15, 1973, Erie disqualified Mr. Anderson from employment as either an engineer or fireman and he was laid off.
The complaint alleges various efforts on the part of plaintiff to secure employment with Erie in a capacity where visual color perception is not critical to job performance. These efforts have been to no avail. Mr. Anderson has also “brought his situation to the attention of . [Conrail which] . . . has done nothing to correct this situation.”
In April, 1976, plaintiff “brought his situation to the attention” of the Department of Labor. Mr. Anderson alleges that even though he has received an “apolog[y] for the lengthy delay in processing his complaint” from the Department of Labor’s Associate Director for Veterans and Handicapped Workers, he has received no further word as to action on his complaint as of September 22, 1978.
Mr. Anderson requests that the Secretary be ordered to act on his complaint or alternatively, that he be reinstated to employment with defendant Conrail and be awarded back wages and benefits.
Defendants Erie and Conrail have moved to dismiss the complaint under Fed.R.Civ.P. *93612(b)(6) on the ground that section 503 of the Act does not grant Mr. Anderson a private cause of action. The motion is now considered upon the complaint, the briefs of the parties, and the section’s legislative history.
The parties are in agreement on two points. First, the language of section 503 does not explicitly grant a private cause of action to enforce its provisions. Secondly, there being no explicit grant of a private action, the test to determine whether a private right of action is implicitly granted in section 503 is enunciated in Cort v. Ash, 422 U.S. 66, 78, 95 S.Ct. 2080, 2088, 45 L.Ed.2d 26 (1975).2 The application of Cort’s test to section 503 is dispositive.
I.
ESPECIAL BENEFIT
The first requirement of Cort is that Mr. Anderson be a member of “the class for whose especial benefit the statute was enacted.” The Act was obviously enacted for the benefit of handicapped persons. Plaintiff has alleged to be handicapped by virtue of “a partial deficiency in color vision.” On this motion to dismiss, the court accepts, as it must, the allegation that Mr. Anderson is handicapped within the meaning of the Act.3
LEGISLATIVE INTENT
Mr. Anderson argues that the second requirement of Cort is met because Congress intended that individuals bring private actions to enforce section 503. He argues:
First Congress has expressly stated its intent (1) that a private right of action exists to enforce section 504 of the Act, (2) that sections 503 and 504 should be administered in a “consistent” manner. This intention is set forth in Senate Reports (Labor and Public Welfare Committee) No. 93-1297, Nov. 26, 1974, 1974 U.S. Code Cong, and Admin.News, pp. 6373, 6390-91, as follows: [full quotation omitted].
The language of the Senate Report No. 93-1297 relied upon by plaintiff briefly sketches the sanctions to be used by the federal government to achieve contractor compliance with section 504 4 and concludes that section 504 will “permit a judicial remedy through a private action.” The immediately following paragraph opens:
It is intended that sections 503 and 504 be administered in such a manner that a consistent, uniform, and effective Federal approach to discrimination against handicapped persons would result. [Emphasis as urged by plaintiff.]
1974 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News, pp. 6373, 6391. In support, plaintiff cites sever*937al cases permitting private suits under section 504 of the Act.5
The language of section 504 of the Act parallels 42 U.S.C. § 2000d6 in prohibiting discrimination. This prohibition of discrimination in section 504 is different in kind from section 503’s requirement of contractual obligations in certain government contracts for the establishment of affirmative action programs in favor of handicapped individuals.7 The two sections serve different purposes; and the legislative record as it bears on Congress’ intent as to section 503 should not be indiscriminately blurred into the record as to section 504.
Section 503 clearly grants an individual the non-judicial remedy of complaining to the Department of Labor when that individual believes a government contractor has violated contractual obligations of affirmative action. Under National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. National Association of Railroad Passengers, 414 U.S. 453, 458, 94 S.Ct. 690, 693, 38 L.Ed.2d 646 (1974), the statutory grant of a specific remedy indicates a congressional intent to not grant further remedies:
A frequently stated principle of statutory construction is that when legislation expressly provides a particular remedy or remedies, courts should not expand the coverage of the statute to subsume other remedies. “When a statute limits a thing to be done in a particular mode, it includes the negative of any other mode.” Botany Mills v. United States, 278 U.S. 282, 289 [49 S.Ct. 129, 132, 73 L.Ed. 379] (1929). This principle of statutory construction reflects an ancient maxim — ex-pressio unius est exclusio alterius.
The statutory construction required by National Railroad does not end the inquiry, for as stated there, “even the most basic general principles of statutory construction must yield to clear contrary evidence of legislative intent.” National Railroad at 458, 94 S.Ct. at 693. Thus, this inquiry must search the legislative history for “clear . evidence of legislative intent” to create a private right under section 503.
Neither have the parties pointed out, nor has the court’s research revealed, any mention of a private right of action in the Act’s legislative history other than the previously quoted Senate Report No. 93-1297 reference to the enforcement of section 504. Even this explicit reference to a private right of action has been suggested to be only a grant of a judicial review of administrative action in response to violations of section 504. See Lloyd v. Regional Transportation Authority, 548 F.2d 1277 (7th Cir. 1977); Rogers v. Frito-Lay, Inc., 433 F.Supp. 200 (N.D.Tex.1977).
On July 11, 1974 the Department of Labor issued interim regulations for its enforcement of section 503. The ensuing correspondence between the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (the Committee) and the Office of the Secretary *938of the Department of Labor8 are made an appendix to S.R.No.93-1297. 1974 U.S. Code Cong. & Admin.News, supra, at p. 6425. In its initial letter, the Committee expressed its dissatisfaction with the Secretary’s regulations:
In our view these regulations represent a step backward from the purposes of section 503. .
Thereafter, the August 21 letter lists by sections its dissatisfaction with the regulations. The numerous specific and detailed criticisms of the Committee address problems associated with the Department of Labor’s internal handling of complaints and imposition of sanctions upon government contractors by that department. The letter is devoid of any suggestion that the Committee objected to the regulations’ lack of any mention that the legislation created a private cause of action. Similarly, the Secretary’s letter of September 24 in response and the further letter of the Committee on November 11, exhibit a concern with the practical details and workings of the mechanisms to enforce section 503. Both letters lack any suggestion that either the Secretary or the Committee contemplated a private right of action as a part of the section 503 enforcement scheme.
The present regulations of the Secretary for enforcement of section 503 contain no provisions concerning a private right of action. These regulations, having been promulgated by the agency charged with enforcing section 503, are entitled to weight in construing the intent of Congress in enacting the section. Title 41, C.F.R. Pt. 60-741 (promulgated April 16, 1976, 41 F.R. 16148), “Affirmative Action Obligations of Contractors and Subcontractors for Handicapped Workers,” section 60-741.28 lists a sequence of sanctions that may be utilized by the Secretary to force compliance with section 503. “Informal means, including conciliation and persuasion,” are to be used “whenever possible.” Further, sanctions of withholding progress payments, contract termination, and debarment from future contracting are also authorized. Section 60-741.28(b) also provides:
(b) Judicial enforcement. In addition to the administrative remedies set forth herein, the Director may, within the limitations of applicable law, seek appropriate judicial action to enforce the contractual provisions set forth in § 60-741.4 including appropriate injunctive relief. [Emphasis added.]
The regulations cannot be construed as recognizing a cause of action in favor of a private individual.
In sum, section 503 specifically provides for an individual to complain to the Department of Labor concerning violations of affirmative action contracts, and that department’s regulations provide for the Secretary to enforce the contracts. Neither the legislative history nor the regulations of 41 C.F.R. Pt. 60-741 indicate that the remedies under section 503 extend to or include private rights of action. Thus, there is no “clear contrary evidence of legislative intent” to negate the presumption required by National Railroad, supra, that Congress intended the administrative complaint to be the handicapped individual’s only means to remedy violations of section 503.
III.
CONSISTENCY WITH LEGISLATIVE SCHEME
. To imply a cause of action, the test in Cort requires that to do so be “consistent with the underlying purposes of the legislative scheme.” Plaintiff argues that it is “consistent, uniform and effective” to imply a private action under section 503 to match the private action that several courts have held to exist under section 504.
As seen, the regulations of the Secretary to enforce section 503 favor “conciliation and persuasion, whenever possible.” The existence of a private cause of action that *939could be pursued by an individual without regard to any conciliation between the Secretary and a contractor could blunt the effectiveness of informal efforts to remedy section 503 violations.
The' present regulations authorize the Secretary to withhold contract payments, cancel the contract, and disbar a contractor. The possibility of civil liability for damages in an action brought by a private individual would be of minimal value to motivate a contractor to comply with affirmative action requirements when such a civil liability is compared with the sanctions which the Secretary can impose. Thus, a private right of action would be of marginal utility in enforcing section 503.
To administer sections 503 and 504 “in such a manner that a consistent, uniform, and effective Federal approach to discrimination against handicapped persons would result,” S.R. 93-1297, does not require the finding of a private action under section 503. The enforcement of section 503 is entrusted to the Department of Labor whereas the enforcement of section 504 is a responsibility of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Thus, the enforcement as well as the function of sections 503 and 504 (affirmative action and antidiscrimination respectively) are separate and distinct. As seen, the legislative history does not indicate that Congress’s intent was the same as to each section. Congress specifically provided for an administrative remedy in the case of section 503 and stated in S.R. 93-1297 that a judicial remedy was envisioned to enforce section 504. These facts indicate that when Congress stated that sections 503 and 504 were to be “consistent” and “uniform,” Congress meant that the two responsible agencies were not to work at cross purposes or to duplicate each other’s efforts, not that identical methods of enforcement were envisioned.
Implying a private cause of action under section 503 would be inconsistent with the informal conciliation efforts mandated in the section 503 regulations and would add little to the presently available sanctions that encourage compliance with section 503 by government contractors.
IV.
TRADITIONAL STATE LAW
Cort states that whether a cause of action is “one traditionally relegated to state law, in an area basically the concern of the States” is a relevant consideration in determining whether a private right is to be implied. Both laws favoring the handicapped and those preventing discrimination against the handicapped are of too recent an origin to be considered “traditional” state law. Though it could' be said by concentrating solely upon the language of section 503, that it is not a basic concern of the states to enforce the provisions of the federal government’s contracts for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services, the “area of concern” is affirmative action in favor of the handicapped.
Looking to the law of the state in which this court sits, Ohio, it is apparent that Ohio is concerned with the handicapped.
Effective July 23, 1976, the provisions of Chapter 4113 of the Ohio Revised Code, “Civil Rights Commission,” were amended to prohibit discrimination against the handicapped. Under O.R.C. § 4112.05(A), “conciliation and persuasion” are the preferred “informal method” of curing violations of Chapter 4112. Informal conciliatory attempts by the state agency to cure discrimination could be — but would not necessarily be — hampered by the existence of a private right to enforce affirmative action programs.
The laws of the state of Ohio that are noted below evidence the breadth of Ohio’s concern for the handicapped.9 Nothing in the noted provisions is in apparent conflict *940with a federal private right of action. These laws merely manifest a state concern for the handicapped that parallels the federal concern evidenced by sections 503 and 504.
There is no inherent conflict between federal rights and state rights for the handicapped that would, in itself, require the conclusion that the area of handicapped law is a state affair that should not be intruded upon by a federal private right of action.
Applying Cort, it is concluded that Congress intended the individual’s complaint to the Department of Labor to be the sole means for a private person to enforce the contractual provisions created by section 503 — a private right of action cannot be implied.10
Upon the grounds and reasons discussed above, the motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted of defendants Erie Lackawanna Railway Company and Consolidated Rail Corporation are granted.
IT IS SO ORDERED.