[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2663-2664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-00486]


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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 April 1, 2020 to July 31, 2020. This 
notice also lists any older decisions that the Department of Education 
(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: 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 (see below) 
or by request (see 84 FR 41941). Older, archived decisions are also 
added to the Department's website as they are digitized.
    In the second quarter of 2020, Randolph-Sheppard arbitration panels 
issued the following decisions.

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                  Case name                     Docket No.         Date                      State
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Illinois v. The Department of Energy........       R-S/16-12       4/30/2020  Illinois.
Oklahoma v. the Department of the Army, Fort       R-S/18-09       6/22/2020  Oklahoma.
 Sill.
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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) 
on the Department's website 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 2019.

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                  Case name                     Docket No.         Date                      State
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The Florida Department of Education,               R-S/17-03       6/13/2019  Florida.
 Division of Blind Services v. The
 Department of the Air Force, Hurlburt Field.
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    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document in an accessible format on request to the contact person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The Department will 
provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich 
Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 file, 
braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc, or other accessible 
format.
    Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this 
document is the document published in the Federal Register. You may 
access the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of 
Federal Regulations at www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can view this 
document, as well as all other documents of this Department published 
in the Federal Register, in

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text or PDF. To use PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 
available free at the site.
    You may also access documents of the Department published in the 
Federal Register by using the article search feature at 
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search 
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published 
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. 2021-00486 Filed 1-12-21; 8:45 am]
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