Notice2023-01136
Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act
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Published
January 23, 2023
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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 fourth quarter of 2022. All decisions are available on the Department's website and by request.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 14 (Monday, January 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3975-3976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01136]
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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
fourth quarter of 2022. 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#0268636f67712c6f61616370766a7b4267662c656d74"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="395358545c4a17545a5a584b4d5140795c5d175e564f">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 2022, the Department received and posted four new
decisions issued by Randolph-Sheppard arbitration panels. In addition,
the Department posted seven older decisions issued between March 2016
and December 2021. The following table lists these 11 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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South Carolina Commission for the Blind R-S/19-01................. 8/31/2022 South Carolina
v. United States Marine Corps.
Balani et al. v. California Department R-S/19-05................. 8/8/2022 California.
of Rehabilitation.
Bechtel v. Washington State Services for R-S/20-02................. 4/4/2022 Washington.
the Blind.
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Utah Services for the Blind and Visually R-S/20-04................. 2/14/2022 Utah.
Impaired v. United States Department of
the Air Force, Hill Air Force Base.
Kneip v. Idaho Commission for the Blind R-S/16-03................. 11/10/2021 Idaho.
and Visually Impaired.
Mitchell v. Louisiana Workforce R-S/16-11................. 4/30/2021 Louisiana.
Commission.
Missouri Department of Social Services, R-S/16-13................. 5/1/2019 Missouri.
Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
v. United States Department of the
Army, Fort Leonard Wood.
Henderson v. Missouri Department of R-S/15-02................. 10/13/2016 Missouri.
Social Services, Rehabilitation
Services for the Blind.
Crocker v. California Department of R-S/13-11................. 8/10/2016 California.
Rehabilitation.
Brown v. Illinois Department of Human R-S/13-10................. 4/5/2016 Illinois.
Services.
Oregon Commission for the Blind and R-S/13-12................. 3/2/2016 Oregon.
Visually Impaired v. General Services
Administration.
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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 <a href="https://rsa.ed.gov/about/programs/randolph-sheppard-vending-facility-program/decisions-of-arbitration-panels">https://rsa.ed.gov/about/programs/randolph-sheppard-vending-facility-program/decisions-of-arbitration-panels</a> or by request to the person listed under 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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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. 2023-01136 Filed 1-20-23; 8:45 am]
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