The Administration on Aging reports that there were 39.6 million persons age 65 or older in the United States in 2009, and that this population is expected to increase to 55 million in 2020.12...
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Need for and Benefits of the Proposed Standards
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2.2(c) Regarded as Substantially Limited
Such protection is necessary, because, as the Supreme Court has stated and the Congress has reiterated, "society's myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are...
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2.3 Qualified Individual with a Disability
For example: A file clerk position description may state that the person holding the job answers the telephone, but if in fact the basic functions of the job are to file and retrieve written...
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36 CFR Part 1195 Standards for Accessible Medical Diagnostic Equipment
For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Access Board adds part 1195 to title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulations to read as follows: PART 1195 –STANDARDS FOR ACCESSIBILE MEDICAL...
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903 Benches
In the final rule, the Board has added clarification to the text of the requirement stating that benches shall provide back support or shall be affixed to the wall (903.4). Comment....
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9. Providing Qualified Interpreters
Experienced interpreters usually have received special training and may be certified by a professional interpreting organization or state or local Commission serving people who are deaf....
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8.9 Drug Testing
Employers may comply with applicable Federal, State, or local laws regulating when and how drug tests may be used, what drug tests may be used, and confidentiality....
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Q13: Specific Requirements for Road Alteration Projects by Public Entities that Receive Federal Financial Assistance
the 1991 ADAAG and at that time it must be brought into compliance with the current DOT Section 504 requirements (2004 ADAAG) including detectable warnings. 2 In 2004, the United States...
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Receivers
Conducted by the Lexington Center, this project included collecting information on assistive listening systems, a review of the state-of-the-art with respect to assistive listening systems...
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‘‘Facility.’’ (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
A public accommodation has obligations under this rule with respect to a cruise ship to the extent that its operations are subject to the laws of the United States....
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M303.2.3 Depth (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Three commenters (two disability rights organizations and a state agency concerned with accessibility) recommended increasing the depth of front or rear entered spaces to 58 inches....
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IV. NON-DISCRIMINATION IN FUTURE QUIKTRIP FACILITIES
QuikTrip will maintain such certifications in its records and include copies of such certifications in its reports to the United States pursuant to Paragraph 37 of this Consent Decree....
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4. The Agreements’ Dispute Resolution Mechanism is Burdensome and Unlikely to Afford Complete Relief to Class Members
While the United States favors dispute resolution before involving the Court, the proposed dispute resolution procedures are burdensome, expensive, and ineffective, and are thus another...
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1. Mayor's Office On Disability
To ensure that disabled persons have meaningful access to its services and programs consistent with the ADA and state law, the City has created a sophisticated and robust infrastructure,...
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F202.6.5.8 Residential Dwelling Units, F202.6.5.9 Emergency Transportable Housing Units with Mobility Features, F202.6.5.10 Emergency Transportable Housing Units with Communication Features
Amendatory Language For the reasons stated in the preamble, we amend 36 CFR part 1191 as follows: In F202.6.5.8, revising the section to read as follows: F202.6.5.8 Residential...
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D. TERMS OF AGREEMENT
In consideration of the terms of this Agreement and the Museum's promises contained in Section D of this Agreement, the United States agrees to refrain from filing a civil suit in this matter...
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APPENDIX A
The presentation also emphasized that 18% of existing rooms in the United States are equipped with adjustable height tables that can achieve a 19 inches low height providing a head start...
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Significant alternatives which minimize any significant economic impacts on small entities
significant economic impacts on small entities The regulatory assessment analyzes the following four requirements in the proposed guidelines that will have more than minimal impacts on state...
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Recommendations on Standards for the Design of Medical Diagnostic Equipment for Adults with Disabilities, Advisory Committee Final Report
Candidate, of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access at the State University of New York at Buffalo, who generously donated time and research expertise to the work of the...
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Standards for Individual Captioning Devices (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In contrast, an industry commenter stated that the ability to read the captions provided by the new closed-caption systems for digital cinema has been reported to be equally good throughout...
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27. Is an employer's obligation to offer reassignment to a vacant position limited to those vacancies within an employee's office, . . . or geographical area?
(BNA) 1466, 1472 (7th Cir. 1996); see generally United States v. Denver, 943 F. Supp. 1304, 1311-13, 6 AD Cas. (BNA) 245, 251-52 (D. Colo. 1996)....
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Definitions of residential facilities and transient lodging. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Several commenters stated that the definitions of residential dwellings and transient lodging are not clear and will confuse social service providers. ...
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Inputs
DOT Decision: The Department has accepted the Trace Center's suggestion to modify the provision on tactile controls to state that “at least one input control that is tactilely discernible...
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TDD or TTY Etiquette, Glossary of TDD Abbreviations
Relay agents will not share information regarding the contents of any relay call, unless they are required to do so by state or federal law....