Final Regulatory Assessment and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Rule - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description

According to public comments on the 2014 NPRM, the additional time necessary to train staff as a result of this rulemaking is approximately 15 minutes.  The methodology used to quantify the costs of additional staff training is presented in Section 3.7.  The primary analysis assumes that the training would be conducted biannually over the period of analysis.  This sensitivity analysis observes the impact on the total cost estimation if the training were instead conducted four times per year as presented in Table 4-19 below.  Training costs over the 15-year analysis period increase to $19.9 million, increasing the total costs of the rulemaking to $98.5 million.  This is an increase of 11 percent compared to the primary analysis.

Table 4-19 : Increased Staff Training Sensitivity Analysis, Discounted at 7 Percent ($ millions)