Survival Coalition co-chairs have submitted comments to The federal Department of Energy (DOE), which has issued a “direct final rule” that will eliminate a long-standing requirement of Section 504 requiring new buildings constructed with federal funds to be accessible to people with disabilities. The Department now calls this rule \u201cunnecessary\u201d and burdensome.\u201d Removing this rule would:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Eliminate enforceable accessibility standards for new federally funded buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Allow renovations that leave out ramps, elevators, accessible restrooms, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Undermine the civil rights protections of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Survival co-chairs encourage each Survival organization to submit comments BY SUNDAY to these 3 locations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your comments do not need to be long: You can simply say you oppose the elimination or weakening of the long-standing requirement of Section 504 which requires new buildings constructed with federal funds to be accessible to people with disabilities. You can also share why you oppose the proposal. Read Full Survival Comments Here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please share widely in your networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Survival Coalition co-chairs have submitted comments to The federal Department of Energy (DOE), which has issued a “direct final rule” that will eliminate a long-standing requirement of Section 504 requiring new buildings constructed with federal funds to be accessible to people with disabilities. The Department now calls this rule \u201cunnecessary\u201d and burdensome.\u201d Removing this rule […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.survivalcoalitionwi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}