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Department of Justice





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Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

Federal Register / Vol. 82 , No. 163 / Thursday, August 24, 2017 / 
Unified Agenda

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

8 CFR Ch. V

21 CFR Ch. I

27 CFR Ch. II

28 CFR Ch. I, V


Regulatory Agenda

AGENCY: Department of Justice.

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice is publishing its spring 2017 
regulatory agenda pursuant to Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory 
Planning and Review,'' 58 FR 51735, and the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 
5 U.S.C. 601 to 612 (1988).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Hinchman, Senior Counsel, 
Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice, Room 4252, 950 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20530, (202) 514-8059.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Beginning with the fall 2007 edition, the 
Internet has been the basic means for disseminating the Unified Agenda. 
The complete Unified Agenda will be available online at www.reginfo.gov 
in a format that offers users a greatly enhanced ability to obtain 
information from the Agenda database.
    Because publication in the Federal Register is mandated for the 
regulatory flexibility agendas required by the Regulatory Flexibility 
Act (5 U.S.C. 602), the Department of Justice's printed agenda entries 
include only:
    (1) Rules that are in the Agency's regulatory flexibility agenda, 
in accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, because they are 
likely to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of 
small entities; and
    (2) any rules that the Agency has identified for periodic review 
under section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
    Printing of these entries is limited to fields that contain 
information required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act's Agenda 
requirements. Additional information on these entries is available in 
the Unified Agenda published on the Internet.

    Dated: March 31, 2017.
Ryan Newman,
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy.

                Civil Rights Division--Completed Actions
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier No.
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159.......................  Nondiscrimination on the           1190-AA63
                             Basis of Disability;
                             Movie Captioning and
                             Audio Description.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DOJ)

Civil Rights Division (CRT)

Completed Actions

159. Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Movie Captioning and 
Audio Description

    Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12101, et seq.
    Abstract: Following its advance notice of proposed rulemaking 
published on July 26, 2010, and the notice of proposed rulemaking 
published on August 1, 2014, the Department published a rule addressing 
the requirements for captioning and video description of movies 
exhibited in movie theatres under title III of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Title III prohibits discrimination on 
the basis of disability in the activities of places of public 
accommodation (private entities whose operations affect commerce and 
that fall into one of twelve categories listed in the ADA). 42 U.S.C. 
12181-12189. Title III makes it unlawful for places of public 
accommodation, such as movie theaters, to discriminate against 
individuals with disabilities in the full and equal enjoyment of the 
goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations 
of a place of public accommodation (42 U.S.C. 12182[a]). Moreover, 
title III prohibits places of public accommodation from affording an 
unequal or lesser service to individuals or classes of individuals with 
disabilities than is offered to other individuals (42 U.S.C. 
12182(b)(1)(A)(ii)). Title III requires places of public accommodation 
to take ``such steps as may be necessary to ensure that no individual 
with a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise 
treated differently because of the absence of auxiliary aids and 
services, such as captioning and video description, unless the entity 
can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the 
nature of the good, service, facility, privilege, advantage, or 
accommodation being offered or would result in an undue burden,'' (42 
U.S.C. 12182(b)(2)(A)(iii)).
    Completed:

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               Reason                    Date            FR Cite
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Final Action........................   12/02/16  81 FR 87348
Final Action Effective..............   01/17/17  .......................
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    Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
    Agency Contact: Anne Raish, Phone: 800 514-0301.
    RIN: 1190-AA63

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