[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 32 (Friday, February 15, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4458-4459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02386]


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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 April, May, and June 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 5065D, Potomac Center Plaza, 
Washington, DC 20202-2800. Telephone: (202) 245-7310. Email: 
[email protected].
    If you use a 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 that notice, we also announced that we 
would add older, archived decisions as they become available.
    In the second quarter of 2018, a Randolph-Sheppard arbitration 
panel issued the following decision.

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                  Case name                     Docket No.         Date                      State
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New Jersey Commission for the Blind and            R-S/15-19       4/24/2018  New Jersey.
 Visually Impaired v. Department of the Air
 Force, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
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    This decision 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 older, archived 
decision from 2013.

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                  Case name                     Docket No.         Date                      State
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State of California, Department of                 R-S/10-07         5/15/13  California.
 Rehabilitation v. United States General
 Services Administration.
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under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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    Dated: February 11, 2019.
Johnny W. Collett,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2019-02386 Filed 2-14-19; 8:45 am]
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