---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4154a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4154a"
heading: "Standards for design, construction, and alteration of buildings; United States Postal Service"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4154a"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Design and Construction of Public Buildings to Accommodate Physically Handicapped"
---

# §4154a. Standards for design, construction, and alteration of buildings; United States Postal Service


The [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) Postal Service, in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services, shall prescribe such [standards](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) for the design, [construction](/usc/42/7479.md?p=2-C), and alteration of its [buildings](/usc/42/4151.md) to insure whenever possible that physically handicapped [persons](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) will have ready access to, and use of, such [buildings](/usc/42/4151.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–480, § 4a, as added Pub. L. 94–541, title II, § 201(5), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2508; amended Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.