Notice2021-23989
Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act
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Published
November 3, 2021
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Education Department
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 210 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60620-60621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c767d71796f32717f7f7d6e6874655c7978327b736a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1cbc0ccc4d28fccc2c2c0d3d5c9d8e1c4c58fc6ced7">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 <a href="http://www.ed.gov/programs/rsarsp/arbitration-decisions.html">www.ed.gov/programs/rsarsp/arbitration-decisions.html</a> 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 <a href="http://www.govinfo.gov">www.govinfo.gov</a>. 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
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You may also access documents of the Department published in the
Federal Register by using the article search feature at
<a href="http://www.federalregister.gov">www.federalregister.gov</a>. 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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