Existing facilities.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (i) Making physical alterations which enable handicapped persons to have access to otherwise inaccessible areas or features of historic properties; (ii) Using audio-visual materials and devices to depict otherwise inaccessible areas or features of historic properties; (iii) Assigning persons to guide handicapped persons into or through otherwise inaccessible portions of historic properties; (iv) Adopting other innovative methods to achieve accessibility. Because the primary benefit of an Historic Preservation Program is the experience of the historic property itself, in taking steps to achieve accessibility, recipients shall give priority to those means which make the historic property, or portions thereof physicially accessible to handicapped individuals. (2) Where accessibility cannot be achieved without causing a substantial impairment of significant historic features, the Secretary may grant a waiver of the accessibility requirement. In determining whether accessibility can be achieved without causing a substantial impairment, the Secretary shall consider the following factors: (i) Scale of property, reflecting its ability to absorb alterations; (ii) Use of the property, whether primarily for public or private purpose; (iii) Importance of the historic features of the property to the conduct of the program or activity; and, (iv) Cost of alterations in comparison to the increase in accessibility. (3) Where the property is federally owned or where Federal

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 15b.18