[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26868-26869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07999]
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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) has
made publicly available in accessible electronic format during the
first quarter of calendar year 2024. All decisions are available on the
Department's website and by request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James McCarthy, U.S. Department of
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Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 4A212, Washington, DC 20202-
2800. Telephone: (202) 245-6458. Email: [email protected].
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
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 participating 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.
Throughout 2023 and the last quarter of 2022, the Department
received eight new decisions issued by Randolph-Sheppard arbitration
panels that were made publicly available during the first quarter of
2024. The following table lists these eight decisions from most recent
to oldest based on their decision dates.
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Case name Docket No. Date State
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Sparks v. Business Enterprises of R-S/22-08................ 12/21/2023 Texas.
Texas, Texas Workforce Commission.
Conway v. State of Illinois, R-S/22-05................ 12/11/2023 Illinois.
Department of Human Services,
Business Enterprise Program For The
Blind.
Mitchell v. Louisiana Workforce R-S/22-07................ 12/7/2023 Louisiana.
Commission.
Mahler v. Texas Workforce Commission.. R-S/22-09................ 10/13/2023 Texas.
Kean v. South Carolina Commission For R-S/18-02................ 10/11/2023 South Carolina.
The Blind.
State of Hawaii, Department of Human R-S/16-07 (remand)....... 6/12/2023 Hawaii.
Services, Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation, Ho'opono Services For
The Blind v. United States Department
of The Army, Schofield Barracks.
Mahler v. Texas Workforce Commission.. R-S/22-02................ 5/15/2023 Texas.
The Colorado Business Enterprise R-S/20-09................ 9/29/2022 Colorado.
Program v. United States Department
of the Air Force, Schriever Space
Force Base.
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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 https://rsa.ed.gov/about/programs/randolph-sheppard-vending-facility-program/decisions-of-arbitration-panels or by request to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Accessible Format: On request to the program contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities
can obtain this document in an accessible format. 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
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You may also access documents of the Department published 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.
Glenna Wright-Gallo,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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