Acts Flashcards

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ADA - Title II

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  • Public Entities and Public Transportation
  • Complaints filed with U.S. Department of Justice
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ADA - Title III

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  • Public Accommodations and Commercail Facilities
  • Complaints filed with U.S. Department of Justice
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Americans with Disabilites Act

(ADA)

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  • A wide ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disabilty.
  • Owner is in charge of compliance with ADA.
  • Architects are expected to complyes with both ADA & CBC.
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California Clean Air Act

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  • Spells out California’s air quality goals, planning mechanisms, regulatory strategies and standards of progress.
  • The act provides the State with the framework for air quality planning regulations.
  • Requires local air districts in violation of the California Ambient Air Quality Standards must prepare attainments plans that identify air quality problems, causes, trends and actions to be taken to attain and maintain CA air quality standards.
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The California Coastal Act

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  • Established the California Coastal Commission
    • Plans and regulates development and natural resource use along the coast in partnership with local governments and in keeping with requirements of the Act
  • Constitutes the statutory standards applied to planning and regulator decisions made by the California Coastal Commission and by local governments, pursuant to the Coastal Act
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California Coastal Act

Coastal Resources Planning and Management Policies

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  • Public Access
  • Recreation
    • Oceanfront
  • Marine Environments
  • Land Resources
    • park and recreation, agriculture, urban land uses
  • Development
    • New residential, commercial or industrial develoment
    • State Air Resources Board
  • Industrial DevelopmentCoastal-dependent industrial facilities
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The California Coastal Act

Issues Addressed

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California Environmental Quality Act

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Title 14 California Code of Regulations, Section 15000

Mission:

  • A statue that requires state and local agencies to identify the significant environmental impacts of their actions and to avoid or mitigate those impacts, if feasible

Purpose:

  • Inform governmental decision makers and the public about the potential significant effects, if any, of proposed activities on the environment.
  • Provide opportunities for other agencies and the public to review and comment on draft environmental documents.
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California EPA’s Brownfields Program

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  • Promoting the participation by the private sector to clean up brownfields.
  • Discovering mutuallly beneficial ways to involve investors in the future of these polluted properties is crucial.
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Comprehensive Environmental Response,

Compensation and Liability Act

(CERCLS)

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Federal

Know as Superfund

  • Complex: Involoves the steps taken to assess sites, place them on the National Priorities List
  • Establish and implement appropriate cleanup plans
  • This is the long-term cleanup process
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Essential Services Building Seismic Safety Act

(ESBSSA)

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Located in California Health & Safety Code

Overveiw

  • Buildings providing essential services should be capable of providing those services to the public after a disaster:
    • designed and constructed to minimize fire hazards and to resist…the forces generated by earthquakes, gravity, and winds.

Enfourcement

  • Local building jurisdiction for locally owned or leased facilities.
  • Division of the State Architect (DSA) for state owned or leased facilities.
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Federal Clean Air Act

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Federal EPA

  • Forms the basis for the national air pollution control effort.
  • Includes national ambient air quality standards for major air pollutants, hazardous air pollutants standards, stationary source emissions standards and permits, acid rain control measures, stratospheric ozone protection and enforcement provisions.
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Federal Clean Water Act

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Federal EPA

  • Establises the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the US and regulating quality standards for sureface waters.
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Federal Coastal Zone Management Act

(CZMA)

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Federal

  • Passed in 1972 to encourage coastal states to develop and implement coastal zone management plans.
  • Federal consistency is an important coastal management tool because it is often the only review authority over federal activities affecting coastal resources given to any state agency.
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Federal EPA’s Brownfields Program

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  • Design to empower states, communities and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together to prevent, asses, saely clean up and sustainably reuse brownfields.
  • A brownfiels is a property, the expansion, redevelopment or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazaardos susbstance, pollutant or containment.
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Field Act

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Legislation that mandated earthquake-resistant construction (specifically for schools in California) in the United States.

  • K-14
  • Community Colleges

Governed under the Educaiton Code

Protecting children and staff from dealth and protecting public’s investments in school buildings.

DSA is AHJ

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Hospital Facilities Seismeic Safety Act

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Toxic Substance Control Act

(TSCA)

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Federal

Allows EPA to:

  • regulate new commercial chemicals before they enter the market
  • regulate existing chemicals (1976) when they pose an unreasonable risk to health or environment
  • regulate distribution and use
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What are 5 Titles of ADA

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  1. Title I - Employment
  2. Title II - Public Entities and Public Transportation
  3. Title III - Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities
  4. Title IV - Telecommunications
  5. Title V - Miscellaneous provisions