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Regulations/Standards
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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).
Programs that are responsible for granting charters to and examining the operation and activities of national banks, credit unions, bank holding companies and foreign banks that wish to open branches in the United States. State banks and savings and loan institutions are also subject to this form of 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.
Programs that enforce the laws that protect the consumer from deceit or fraud in the marketplace by requiring that the parties to a transaction reveal all facts which are essential to an intelligent assessment of that transaction and to providing informed consent.
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.
Programs that establish and enforce legislation which promotes free and fair competition in interstate or international commerce through prevention of general trade restraints such as price fixing agreements, boycotts, illegal combinations of competitors, exclusive dealing, tying arrangements, monopolistic practices or other unfair methods of competition or deceptive trade practices.
Programs that establish and enforce laws that define the types of gambling that are legal or illegal in a particular state and the conditions under which legal gambling can be conducted; and/or which license and oversee legal gambling establishments and their activities. Included are regulations for casino and riverboat gambling; Indian tribal casino gaming; slot machines and other electronic gaming; poker, pai gow, super pan and other cardroom gaming; bingo gaming; pari-mutuel wagering on horse races, dog races and jai alai; professional and college sports betting; state lotteries; telegambling using 900 numbers; and Internet gambling.
Interstate Commercial Shipping Regulation
Programs that are responsible for regulating interstate surface transportation of goods and commodities via foreign and domestic companies operating railroads, trucking companies, bus lines, water carriers, freight forwarders, transportation brokers and coal slurry pipelines within the borders of the United States. Regulatory laws involve certification of carriers seeking to provide transportation for the public, rates, adequacy of service, purchases and mergers.
Programs that establish and enforce legislation which protects the working public from exploitation and unsafe working conditions.
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.
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.
Programs that are designed to guarantee fairness and objectivity in commerce by establishing a consistent system of physical measurements to assure accurate representation of quantity and unit cost of sales products as well as interchangeability and uniformity of manufactured items. Enforcement measures include checking weights of packaged products and the accuracy of weighing and measuring devices such as supermarket scales, gasoline pumps, taxicab meters and rental car odometers. The program may also conduct inspections at retail businesses to ensure that prices charged are the same as those posted or advertised and that scanning equipment is operating correctly.