Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act
| Published date | 19 February 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 9461 |
| Record Number | 2020-03207 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Education Department |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9461-9462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-03207]
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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 issued from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.
This notice also lists any older decisions that the Department of
Education (Department) has made publicly available in accessible
electronic format during that period. The full text of all decisions is
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 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 and the full text of the
decisions listed are available on the Department's website or by
request (see 82 FR 41941). Older, archived decisions are also added to
the Department's website as they are digitized.
In the third and fourth quarters of 2018, Randolph-Sheppard
arbitration panels issued the following decisions.
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Case name Case No. Date State
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Jerry Bird v. Oregon Commission for the R-S/11-05 7/19/2018 Oregon.
Blind.
California Department of Rehabilitation v. R-S/15-20 10/08/2018 California.
United States Department of the Navy.
California Vendors Policy Committee v. R-S/10-09 10/15/2018 California.
California Department of 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, and are available in Portable Document Format (PDF)
at www.ed.gov/programs/rsarsp/arbitration-decisions.html or by request
to the
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person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
At the same site, we have posted the following older, archived
decision from 2013.
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Case name Case No. Date State
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Michael Jones v. The Pennsylvania Office of R-S/10-04 12/7/2013 Pennsylvania.
Vocational Rehabilitation.
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Mark Schultz,
Delegated the authority to perform the functions and duties of the
Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services.
[FR Doc. 2020-03207 Filed 2-18-20; 8:45 am]
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