Summarized are major federal regulations affecting the handicapped issued during 1976. Regulations are organized according to the following categories: health (such as long term care and home health services, health planning, and facilities construction); education (such as handicapped education grants to the states, early childhood education, and regional education programs for the handicapped); social services (proposed and final regulations of Title XX of the Social Security Act); employment (patient workers, public service and works employment, and federal contract work); rights (anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action, and architectural barriers); vocational rehabilitation (basic program regulations, evaluation standards, and vending facilities for the blind); social security and supplemental security income (such as childhood disability criteria and gainful activity guidelines); housing (elderly/handicapped housing loans, rural housing rent subsidies, and community development block grants); child nutrition (school lunch and breakfast programs, child care food program and special milk program); transportation; developmental disabilities; and miscellaneous (such as the foster grandparent program). (DB)