[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 210 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60620-60621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-23989]


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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 that the Department of Education (Department) 
made publicly available in accessible electronic format during the 
second quarter of 2021. 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

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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. The full texts of the 
decisions listed are available on the Department's website (see below) 
or by request (see 82 FR 41941 (Sept. 5, 2017)). Older, archived 
decisions are also added to the Department's website as they are 
digitized.
    In the second quarter of 2021, the Department received no new 
decisions, but posted the following seven decisions issued by Randolph-
Sheppard arbitration panels between May 2013 and May 2016.

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                  Case name                     Docket No.         Date                      State
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Bird v. Ohio Rehabilitation Services               R-S/10-10       5/16/2013  Ohio.
 Commission, Bureau of Services for the
 Visually Impaired.
Bragg v. Tennessee Department of Human             R-S/10-11       1/28/2015  Tennessee.
 Services Division of Rehabilitation
 Services.
Kneip v. Idaho Commission for the Blind and        R-S/12-03       6/22/2015  Idaho.
 Visually Impaired.
Stelmach v. Michigan Bureau of Services for        R-S/13-04      12/16/2015  Michigan.
 Blind Persons.
Maryland State Department of Education v.          R-S/13-02      12/30/2015  Maryland.
 United States General Services
 Administration.
Altstatt v. Oklahoma Division of                   R-S/13/01       1/18/2016  Oklahoma.
 Rehabilitation Services.
Murphy et al. v. California Department of          R-S/12-10       2/04/2016  California.
 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 of 1973, as amended, 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.
    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 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.

Katherine Neas,
Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and 
Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2021-23989 Filed 11-2-21; 8:45 am]
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