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Accessibility Related Standards/Legislation Compliance

Programs that ensure that physical spaces (including buildings, parking lots, sidewalks, parks and other areas that are used by the public) are safe and free from obstacles which prevent access by people who have disabilities; that technologies (including software applications and operating systems, Web-based information and applications, telecommunications products, video and multimedia products, and commercial products such as information kiosks, calculators and fax machines) have features which support accessibility; and that enhancements which improve accessibility are implemented wherever possible. Legislation mandating accessibility for people with disabilities includes the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 (which took effect in 1992), the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) of 1968, and the Rehabilitation Act (which was amended in 1998 to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities).

• Service code: DF-8000.0200
• 2 providers

Communications Regulation

Programs that are responsible for developing telecommunications policy at state or national levels and/or for regulating intrastate, interstate and foreign communication by means of radio, television, wire, cable and satellite as well as the new forms of communication including voice, data, image graphics and full motion video made possible by the emerging broadband telecommunications platform. Responsibilities include allocating bands of frequencies to individual stations; licensing and regulating stations and operators; regulating common carriers in intrastate, interstate and foreign communications by telegraph, telephone or satellite; and overseeing the development and utilization of a broadband telecommunications platform.

• Service code: DF-8000.1400
• 2 providers

Consumer Safety Standards

Programs that protect consumers from hazardous or harmful consumer goods through enforcement of laws that establish standards for the purity, safety and wholesomeness of food and the safety and effectiveness of drugs and consumer products.

• Service code: DF-8000.1600
• 3 providers

Labor Standards and Practices

Programs that establish and enforce legislation which protects the working public from exploitation and unsafe working conditions.

• Service code: DF-8000.4500
• 1 provider

Privacy Legislation Enforcement

Programs that are responsible for enforcement of legislation which regulates the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of personal information by government entities, businesses or other private organizations.

• Service code: DF-8000.6450
• 1 provider

Public Utility Regulation/Deregulation

Programs that establish and enforce regulations that govern the rates and services of utility companies and/or provide information about utility deregulation.

• Service code: DF-8000.6600
• 3 providers

Transportation Safety Standards

Programs that are responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that are designed to ensure public safety on highways, railways, airlines, shipping lines and other modes of transportation; which enforce compliance with safety standards; and which investigate serious accidents involving civil aviation, railroad accidents, pipeline accidents, selected highway accidents, selected marine accidents and other transportation accidents that are catastrophic.

• Service code: DF-8000.9000
• 2 providers