From the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Legal Opinion: GME-0009
Index: 9.207
Subject: MCS Disorder and Environmental Illness as Handicaps
Full Text At: http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/lops/GME-0009LOPS.pdf
March 5, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR: Frank Keating, General Counsel, G
FROM: Carole W. Wilson, Associate General Counsel for Equal Opportunity and Administrative Law, GM
SUBJECT: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Disorder and Environmental Illness as Handicaps
VI. Conclusion
MCS and EI can be handicaps under the Act. This position is consistent with the statutory language, the weight of judicial authority, the interpretation of other Federal agencies, and the Act's legislative history. HUD also has been consistent in articulating this position on prior occasions. Thus, HUD's current interpretation seems correct, and there appears to be no compelling reason to change it now.
