---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 18102"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "18102"
heading: "Federal telecommunications system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/18102"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 181 — Telecommunications Accessibility for Hearing-Impaired and Speech-Impaired Individuals"
---

# §18102. Federal telecommunications system

- (a) **Regulations To Ensure Accessibility.—** The Administrator of General Services, after consultation with the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, the Interagency Committee on Computer Support of Handicapped Employees, the Federal Communications [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1), and affected [federal agencies](/usc/40/17901.md?p=1), shall prescribe regulations to ensure that the federal telecommunications system is fully accessible to hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals, including federal employees, for communications with and within [federal agencies](/usc/40/17901.md?p=1).
- (b) **Federal Relay System.—** The Administrator shall provide for the continuation of the existing federal relay system for users of [TTY](/usc/40/18101.md?p=2)’s.
- (c) **Directory.—** The Administrator shall assemble, publish, and maintain a directory of [TTY](/usc/40/18101.md?p=2)’s and other devices used by [federal agencies](/usc/40/17901.md?p=1) to comply with regulations prescribed under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (d) **Publication of Access Numbers.—** The Administrator shall publish access numbers of [TTY](/usc/40/18101.md?p=2)’s and such other devices in [federal agency](/usc/40/17901.md?p=1) directories.
- (e) **Logo.—** After consultation with the Board, the Administrator shall adopt the design of a standard logo to signify the presence of a [TTY](/usc/40/18101.md?p=2) or other device used by a [federal agency](/usc/40/17901.md?p=1) to comply with regulations prescribed under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1290.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 18102(a) | 40:762a(a). | Pub. L. 100–542, § 3, Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2721. |
| 18102(b) | 40:762a(b)(1). |  |
| 18102(c), (d) | 40:762a(b)(2)–(5), (c). |  |
| 18102(e) | 40:762a(b)(6). |  |

In subsection (a), the words “prescribe regulations to ensure” are substituted for “by regulation, take such actions in accordance with this section as may be necessary to assure” to eliminate unnecessary words.

In subsection (c), the text of 40:762a(b)(2)–(4) and (c) is omitted as executed and obsolete. The words “In carrying out subsection (a) of this section” are omitted as unnecessary.