Notice2024-24429
Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act
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Published
October 22, 2024
Issuing agencies
Education Department
Abstract
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 second quarter of calendar year 2024. All decisions are available on the Department's website and by request.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84341-84342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24429]
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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
second quarter of calendar year 2024. All
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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 4A212, Washington, DC 20202-
2800. Telephone: (202) 245-6458. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ec868d81899fc2818f8f8d9e988495ac8988c28b839a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1a707b777f69347779797b686e72635a7f7e347d756c">[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.
During the first and second quarters of 2024, the Department
received four new decisions issued by Randolph-Sheppard arbitration
panels that were made publicly available during the second quarter of
2024. The following table lists these four 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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Arizona Department of Economic Security R-S/23-05................ 6/17/2024 Arizona.
v. United States Department of the
Army, Fort Huachuca.
Benson v. Georgia Vocational R-S/23-01................ 6/14/2024 Georgia.
Rehabilitation Agency.
Cyrus v. Opportunities for Ohioans with R-S/21-03 and R-S/16-06.. 3/25/2024 Ohio.
Disabilities.
Gilbert v. Business Enterprise Program, R-S/18-16................ 1/31/2024 Pennsylvania.
Bureau of Blindness and Visual
Services, Office of Labor and
Industry, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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These decisions and other decisions that we already posted are
searchable by key terms, accessible under Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act, and 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 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, 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 Department documents 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 Department documents 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.
Glenna Wright-Gallo,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2024-24429 Filed 10-21-24; 8:45 am]
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