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This action would continue a rulemaking initiated under RIN 2105-AD54. It would revise the Department´s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations to parallel other DOT and Department of Justice ADA rules, and clarify that public transportation providers are required to modify policies and practices reasonably where necessary to ensure nondiscriminatory transportation services for individuals with disabilities, except where doing so would fundamentally alter the service. For example, an individual using a wheelchair who needs to access the bus would be able to board the bus, even though sidewalk construction or snow prevents the individual from boarding the bus from the bus stop; the operator of the bus would need to slightly adjust the boarding location so that the individual using a wheelchair may board from an accessible location. This rulemaking was recently downgraded to nonsignificant and will not appear on next month’s report.