New disability rules prompt chorus of concern


	New disability rules prompt chorus of concern

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/006fdc5a-da73-4271-9d53-1b14ab86e461/D48A50B6-9BB6-4CD5-BBF6-13B304656BFB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34"><SPAN class="inside-head">New disability rules prompt chorus of concern</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.usatoday.com/img/711C1FCA-FB43-492B-A953-83E240758C37" alt="Courses like Jerry Doser's Adventure Mini Golf in Lake Worth, Fla. are one of hundreds of areas affected by proposed changes under the Americans with Disabilities Act." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="165" align="right" class="photoCredit">By Wilfredo Lee, AP</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="photoCredit" colspan="2">Courses like Jerry Doser's Adventure Mini Golf in Lake Worth, Fla. are one of hundreds of areas affected by proposed changes under the Americans with Disabilities Act.</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34"><P class="inside-copy">The proposed regulations address a wide range of facilities — including access to courthouses, drinking fountains, amusement park rides, stadium and theater seating, fishing piers, boat slips and bowling lanes — and establish specific requirements for qualifying accessible designs. For miniature golf courses, 50% of the holes would have to be accessible for players in wheelchairs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34"><P class="inside-copy">The 1,000 pages of regulations proposed by the Justice Department are drawing intense scrutiny from businesses that foresee a financial drain and disability rights advocates who say they are long overdue and don't go far enough. Both groups say they want more clarity.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-24-disability_N.htm?csp=34">Costs to 7 million affected businesses plus state and local government agencies would total $23 billion over 40 years</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D48A50B6-9BB6-4CD5-BBF6-13B304656BFB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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