Design and Construction of Federal Facilities to be Accessible to the Physically Handicapped: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 14464 ... December 9, 1969 |
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Page 21 - ... military personnel) the intended use for which either will require that such building or facility be accessible to the public, or may result in the employment or residence therein of physically handicapped persons, which building or facility is...
Page 54 - American Standard Specifications for Making Buildings and Facilities Accessible to, and Usable by, the Physically Handicapped." (3) The submission of programs, plans, specifications, site surveys, estimates, etc. shall be in such stages and in such form as the Secretary may require. (c) Construction including fire-resistive requirements — (1) Foundations. Foundations shall rest on natural solid ground if a satisfactory soil is...
Page 21 - An Act to insure that certain buildings financed with Federal funds are so designed and constructed as to be accessible to the physically handicapped. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, as used in this Act, the term "building...
Page 20 - A state agency is hereby created with power to eliminate and prevent discrimination in employment, in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement, in housing accommodations and in commercial space because of race, creed, color or national origin...
Page 2 - Columbia, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to...
Page 9 - We recommended in our l975 report that HUD expedite the development of a standard for the design, construction, and alteration of publicly owned residential structures. In a combined effort with the National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults and the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, HUD funded a research and development project to revise ANSI standards. By early spring...
Page 19 - an estimated 14.6 million adults suffered from definite heart disease, and nearly as many had suspected heart disease. Of every 100 persons in the population between the ages of 18 and 79, 13 had definite heart disease and 12 more had suspected heart disease. Thus nearly one-fourth [my italics] of the adult population studied lives in certainty or jeopardy of heart disease.
Page 21 - But much more should be done ; and the greatest need is not for enactment of new laws, but for the repeal of old prejudices. It may be, however, that in some areas at least — transportation, places of public accommodation, and perhaps even employment in businesses and institutions under Federal regulation — there should be a Federal Civil Rights Law, with appropriate sanctions, directed against the discriminations which are daily practiced against the physically handicapped, and whose effects...
Page 30 - Architects to be presented to the Social and Rehabilitation Service Administration, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare for the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.
Page 32 - Committee, initiated a request for funds for this undertaking with the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare.