40312 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 163 / Thursday, August 24, 2017 / Unified Agenda 

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. 

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

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

159 .................... Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Movie Captioning and Audio Description ................................. 1190–AA63 

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: 

Reason Date FR Cite 

Final Action ......... 12/02/16 81 FR 87348 

Final Action Effective.01/17/17 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Anne Raish, Phone: 

800 514–0301. 

RIN: 1190–AA63 

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