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Americans with Disabilities Act
Regulatory Compliance and Plan
Development
San Bernardino Associated
Governments (SANBAG), CA
Since the early 1990’s,
AMMA Transit Planning has
provided on-going staff
support to the San
Bernardino County
transportation commission’s
Transit and Rail Programs
staff. San Bernardino
County, composed of 20,000
square miles, is the largest
county in the United States
and larger than nine
states. Home to 1.7 million
persons, communities are
widely dispersed among two
urbanized areas, San
Bernardino and the Victor
Valley, along with small
rural communities of Lake
Arrowhead and Big Bear in
the mountains and Mojave
desert communities between
the Colorado River and the
urbanized San Bernardino
Valley.
AMMA Transit Planning
responsibilities have
included:
Addressing Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA)
compliance,
including interpreting
existing rules and
developing comment upon
proposed rule changes to the
ADA; regular participation
on ADA appeals boards;
Interpreting on-the-street
implications of Federal rule
making
and preparing comments for
selected Notice of Proposed
Rule Making;
Staffing PASTACC,
including conducting and
directing this
state-mandated, 35-member
technical advisory committee
– San Bernardino Associated
Governments Public and
Specialized Transportation
Advisory and Coordination
Council [PASTACC] –
which provides oversight and
guidance on Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA)
policy and practice, funding
and grant opportunities
related to public transit.
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