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Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers With Disabilities Using Wheelchairs
The Transportation Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on March 12, 2024. Comments closed on May 13, 2024.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT or the Department) is proposing to strengthen its rule implementing the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) to address the serious problems that individuals with disabilities using wheelchairs and scooters face when traveling by air that impact their safety and dignity, including mishandled wheelchairs and scooters and improper transfers to and from aircraft seats, aisle chairs, and personal wheelchairs.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-04729
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
- Agency
- Transportation Department
- Published
- March 12, 2024
- Comments due
- May 13, 2024
- Dates
- Comments should be filed by May 13, 2024. Late-filed comments will be considered to the extent practicable.
- Docket
- Docket No. DOT-OST-2022-0144
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2105-AF14
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 14 CFR 382
- Topics
- Air carriers; Civil rights; Consumer protection; Individuals with disabilities; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 24
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