[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 2, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49550-49551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21423]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, 
Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice lists arbitration panel decisions under the 
Randolph-Sheppard Act issued in January, February, and March 2018. This 
notice also lists any older decisions that the Department has made 
publicly available in accessible electronic format during that period. 
All decisions are available on the Department's website and by request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald Brinson, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 5045, Potomac Center Plaza, 
Washington, DC 20202-2800. Telephone: (202) 245-7310. Email: 
[email protected]. If you use a

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telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text telephone (TTY), 
call the Federal Relay Service, toll-free, at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the purpose of providing individuals who 
are blind with remunerative employment, enlarging their economic 
opportunities, and stimulating greater efforts to make themselves self-
supporting, the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. 107 et seq. (Act), 
authorizes individuals who are blind to operate vending facilities on 
Federal property and provides them with a priority for doing so. The 
vending facilities include, among other things, cafeterias, snack bars, 
and automatic vending machines. The Department administers the Act and 
designates an agency in each State--the State Licensing Agency (SLA)--
to license individuals who are blind to operate vending facilities on 
Federal and other property in the State.
    The Act requires arbitration of disputes between SLAs and vendors 
who are blind and between SLAs and Federal agencies before three-person 
panels convened by the Department whose decisions constitute final 
agency action. 20 U.S.C. 107d-1. The Act also makes these decisions 
matters of public record and requires their publication in the Federal 
Register. 20 U.S.C. 107d-2(c).
    On September 5, 2017, the Department announced that it would 
publish quarterly lists of Randolph-Sheppard arbitration panel 
decisions in the Federal Register and that the full text of the 
decisions listed would be available on the Department's website or by 
request (see 82 FR 41941).
    In the first quarter of 2018, Randolph-Sheppard arbitration panels 
issued the following decisions.

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                Case name                           Docket No.                Date                State
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Opportunities for Ohioans with            R-S/16-08                             2/22/18  OH
 Disabilities v. Wright Patterson Air
 Force Base.
California Vendors Policy Committee v.    R-S/10-09                             2/20/18  CA
 California Department of Rehabilitation.
Taylor v. Wisconsin's Department of       R-S/12-01                             2/05/18  WI
 Workforce Development, Division of
 Vocational Rehabilitation.
Florida Department of Education v.        R-S/16-04                             1/30/18  FL
 Tyndall Air Force Base.
Hooks v. North Carolina Division of       R-S/15-16                             1/02/18  NC
 Services for the Blind.
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    These decisions, and other decisions that we have already posted, 
are searchable by key terms, are accessible under Section 508 of the 
Rehabilitation Act, and are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) 
at www.ed.gov/programs/rsarsp/arbitration-decisions.html or by request 
to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    At the same site, we have posted the following decision from 2016.

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                Case name                           Docket No.                Date                State
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Texas Department of Assistive and         R-S/13-13                             11/2/16  TX
 Rehabilitative Services v. Fort Bliss.
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    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, 
audiotape, or compact disc) on request to the contact person listed 
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this 
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    You may also access documents of the Departmentpublished in the 
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www.federalregister.gov.
    Specifically, through the advanced search feature at this site, you 
can limit your search to documents published by the Department.

    Dated: September 26, 2018.
Johnny W. Collett,
Assistant Secretary, Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2018-21423 Filed 10-1-18; 8:45 am]
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