The impacts will be facility specific and will depend on the elements and spaces that are altered in an existing facility....
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2010 ADA Definition
Alteration: A change to a building or facility that affects or could affect the usability of the building or facility or portion thereof. Alterations include, but are not limited to, remodeling, renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, historic restoration, resurfacing of circulation paths or vehicular ways, changes or rearrangement of the structural parts or elements, and changes or rearrangement in the plan configuration of walls and full-height partitions. Normal maintenance, reroofing, painting or wallpapering, or changes to mechanical and electrical systems are not alterations unless they affect the usability of the building or facility.
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Regulatory Process Matters
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Organization of This Rule
As noted above, the 2004 ADAAG, taken together with the requirements contained in subpart D of 28 CFR part 36 (New Construction and Alterations) of the final rule, will be referred to as...
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Baseline
use the DOJ 2010 Standards in the Department of Justice regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act to the extent feasible when designing, constructing, or altering...
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Regulatory Impact Analysis.
Unlike the Access Board, the Department must examine the effect of the proposed standards not only on newly constructed or altered facilities, but also on existing facilities. ...
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Section 35.137 Mobility Devices (Section-by-Section Analysis)
On the other hand, the use of mobility devices that are unsafe to others, or unusually unwieldy or disruptive, is unlikely to be reasonable and may constitute a fundamental alteration....
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1.3 Architectural Standards.
The ADA standards are issued by DOJ and DOT, and apply to facilities covered by the ADA in new construction and alterations....
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Accessible Routes to Press Boxes
Section 201.1 of the 2010 Standards requires that all areas of newly designed and constructed buildings and facilities and altered portions of existing buildings and facilities be accessible...
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Top Landings
However, a similar exception has been added for alterations. Under this exception, 1:12 maximum side flares are required where there is no landing at the top of curb ramps....
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Accessible Swimming Pools and Spas
Bush, New Freedom Initiative, February 1, 2001 The guidelines described in this guide focus on newly designed or newly constructed and altered swimming pools, wading pools, aquatic...
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Accessible Golf Courses
Bush, New Freedom Initiative, February 1, 2001 The recreation facility guidelines described in this guide focus on newly designed or newly constructed and altered golf courses and...
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Camping and Picnic Facilities and Viewing Areas on Trails [F247.4]
When camping and picnic facilities or viewing areas are constructed or altered along a trail, they must comply with the applicable scoping and technical requirements for the facility, regardless...
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Ensure that communication with people with disabilities is as effective as communication with people without disabilities
Public entities are not required to take any action that would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of a service, program, or activity, or undue financial and administrative...
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16. Meetings with Class Counsel
Agreement, including a description and listing of the Program Access Improvements implemented or conducted during the Compliance Period and the City’s other major new construction and alteration...
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Part One: The ADA’s Requirements for Small Towns
To accomplish this, the ADA sets requirements for town facilities, new construction and alterations, communications with the public, and policies and procedures governing town programs,...
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New Construction
Because ADA requirements for new construction and alterations do change from time to time, towns should become familiar with any new design and construction requirements before a project...
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QUESTION: MUST RAILROADS SUBMIT PLANS FOR MEETING THE PERFORMANCE STANDARD OF SECTION 37.42 ON A STATION-BY-STATION BASIS?
Plans for meeting the performance standard at new or altered stations where track adjacent to the platform is shared with freight traffic must be submitted on a station-by-station basis....
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Step One: Accessible Shelter Quick-Check Survey
For some older buildings, especially those on hilly sites and those that have not been renovated, remodeled, or altered since 1992, before completing the detailed checklist, it may be better...
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Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601-612)
rule and preamble make clear, there are no retrofit requirements that would increase costs for covered entities, regardless of size, as requirements apply only with respect to new and altered...
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604.8.1.7 Water closet
The ADA Standards for Accessible Design and therefore this code require wheelchair accessible compartments in new construction and in alterations of existing buildings to have self closing...
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C201.2 Readily Achievable
of any parent corporation or entity, to the extent such resources are available to the telecommunications manufacturer; and, whether the accessibility solution results in a fundamental alteration...
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404.2.3 Doorways - Clear Width
In alterations, a projection of 5/8 inch (16 mm) maximum into the required clear width shall be permitted for the latch side stop. 2....
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Program Accessibility
already comply with the curb ramp requirements in the 1991 Standards, they need not be modified in accordance with the 2010 Standards in order to provide program access, unless they are altered...
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1. General Exception
Therefore, the Access Board has added a general exception to Chapter 2 allowing compliance to the maximum extent practicable for the rare circumstance where full compliance would alter diagnostically...
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11B-221.6 Semi-ambulant seats
ETA Editor's Note This Access Board Note was taken from ADA Title II §35.151(g) New Construction and Alterations; Assembly Areas, and from ADA Title III §36.406(f) Standards for New Construction...