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The Department shares the commenters' goal of coordination between
the private sector and Federal standards, to the extent that
coordination can lead to substantive requirements consistent with the
ADA. A single accessibility standard, or consistent accessibility
standards, that can be used for ADA purposes and that can be
incorporated or referenced by State and local governments, would help to
ensure that the ADA requirements are routinely implemented at the design
stage. The Department plans to work toward this goal.
The Department, however, must comply with the requirements of the
ADA, the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C app. 1 et seq.) and the
Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C 551 et seq.). Neither the
Department nor the Board can adopt private requirements wholesale.
Furthermore, neither the 1991 ANSI A117 Standard revision nor the BCMC
process is complete. Although the ANSI and BCMC provisions are not
final, the Board has carefully considered both the draft BCMC scoping
provisions and draft ANSI technical standards and included their
language in ADAAG wherever consistent with the ADA.
(Just notes)
