bgcolor is not really a tag, but an attribute to the body - tag, so you would have to put:

...
         -meta=>{'keywords'=>'PMI HR HumanResources',
              'copyright'=>'copyright 2001 Kelly Berry'},
         -style =>{'src'=>'../style.css'},
         -bgcolor =>'blue');
...
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into your code. (Warning: I have not tested that piece of code)
But the body color attribute is already covered with CSS1, so you can put that in with your style-sheet.

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updated: ah well, I never used cgi to create html, I just moved from here-docs to templates.