[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9461-9462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-03207]


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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 from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. 
This notice also lists any older decisions that the Department of 
Education (Department) has made publicly available in accessible 
electronic format during that period. The full text of all decisions is 
available on the Department's website and by request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James McCarthy, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 5064D, Potomac Center Plaza, 
Washington, DC 20202-2800. Telephone: (202) 245-6703. 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 provides for 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).
    The Department publishes lists of Randolph-Sheppard Act arbitration 
panel decisions in the Federal Register and the full text of the 
decisions listed are available on the Department's website or by 
request (see 82 FR 41941). Older, archived decisions are also added to 
the Department's website as they are digitized.
    In the third and fourth quarters of 2018, Randolph-Sheppard 
arbitration panels issued the following decisions.

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                  Case name                      Case No.          Date                      State
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Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the            R-S/11-05       7/19/2018  Oregon.
 Blind.
California Department of Rehabilitation v.         R-S/15-20      10/08/2018  California.
 United States Department of the Navy.
California Vendors Policy Committee v.             R-S/10-09      10/15/2018  California.
 California Department of Rehabilitation.
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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

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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                      Case No.          Date                      State
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Michael Jones v. The Pennsylvania Office of        R-S/10-04       12/7/2013  Pennsylvania.
 Vocational Rehabilitation.
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    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document in an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large print, 
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under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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by the Department.

Mark Schultz,
Delegated the authority to perform the functions and duties of the 
Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and 
Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2020-03207 Filed 2-18-20; 8:45 am]
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