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White Machine, Inc., North Royalton,

OH

White Machine, Inc., North Kingstown,

RI

Whitehead Tool & Design, Inc., Guys

Mills, PA

Wiegel Tool Works, Inc., Wood Dale, IL

Wightman Engineering Services, Santa

Clara, CA

Wilco Die Tool Machine Company,

Maryland Heights, MO

Wilkinson Mfg., Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Willer Tool Corporation, Jackson, WI

William Sopko & Sons Co., Inc.,

Cleveland, OH

Williams Controls Industries, Portland,

OR

Williams Engineering & Manufacturing,

Inc., Chatsworth, CA

Williams Machine, Inc., Lake Elsinore,

CA

Windsor Tool & Die, Inc., Cleveland, OH

Winter’s Grinding Service, Menomonee

Falls, WI

Wire Cut Company, Inc., Buena Park,

CA

Wire Tech E D M, Inc., Los Alamitos,

CA

Wire Tech, LLC, Watertown, CT

Wirecut Technologies, Inc.,

Indianapolis, IN

Wiretec, Inc., Delmont, PA

WireCut E D M, Inc., Dallas, TX

Wisconsin Engraving Company, New

Berlin, WI

Wisconsin Metalworking Machinery,

Waukesha, WI

Wisconsin Mold Builders, LLC,

Waukesha, WI

Wise Machine Co., Inc., Butler, PA

Wolfe Engineering, Inc., Campbell, CA

Wolverine Bronze Company, Roseville,

MI

Wolverine Tool & Engineering, Belmont,

MI

Wolverine Tool Company, St. Clair

Shores, MI

Woodruff Corporation, Torrance, CA

Wright Brothers Welding & Sheet Metal,

Inc., Hollister, CA

Wright Industries, Inc., Nashville, TN

Wright Industries, Inc., Gilbert, AZ

Wright-K Technology, Inc., Saginaw, MI

WADKO Precision, Inc., Houston, TX

WSI Industries, Inc., Long Lake, MN

X L I Corporation, Rochester, NY

Yates Tool, Inc., Medina, OH

Yoder Die Casting Corporation, Dayton,

OH

Yorktown Precision Technologies,

Yorktown, IN

Youngberg Industries, Inc., Belvidere, IL

Youngers Sons Mf, Viola, KS

Youngstown Plastic Tooling &

Machinery, Inc., Youngstown, OH

Z & Z Machine Products, Inc., Racine,

WI

Z M D Mold & Die, Inc., Mentor, OH

Zakar, Inc., Brockport, NY

Zip Tool & Die Co., Inc., Cleveland, OH

Zircon Precision Products, Inc., Tempe,

AZ

Zuelzke Tool & Engineering,

Milwaukee, WI

4 Axis Machining, Inc., Denver, CO

86 Tool Company, Cambridge Springs,

PA

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Technology Administration

Office of Technology Policy; National

Medal of Technology Nomination

Evaluation Committee; Notice of

Determination for Closure of Meeting

The National Medal of Technology

Nomination Evaluation Committee has

scheduled a meeting for May 22, 2000.

The Committee was established to

assist the Department in executing its

responsibility under 15 U.S.C. 3711.

Under the provision, the Secretary is

responsible for recommending to the

President prospective recipients of the

National Medal of Technology. The

committee’s recommendations are made

after reviewing all nominations received

in response to a public solicitation. The

Committee is chartered to have twelve

members.

Time and Place: The meeting will

begin at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. on May

22, 2000. The meeting will be held in

Room 4807 at the U.S. Department of

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230. For

further information contact: S.J.

Dapkunas, Acting Director National

Medal of Technology, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 1401 Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Herbert C. Hoover

Building, Room 4226, Washington, D.C.

20230, Phone: 202–482–1424.

If a member of the public would like

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Counsel, have formally determined,

pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app.

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about candidates under consideration

for the Medal, who may or may not

ultimately receive the award, would be

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Medal.

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Notice of Determination will be

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Technology, 1401 Constitution Avenue,

N.W., Herbert Hoover Building, Room

4226, Washington, D.C. 20230, (Phone:

202–482–1424).

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

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Board of Visitors Meeting

AGENCY: Department of Defense

Acquisition University.

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SUMMARY: The next meeting of the

Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

Board of Visitors (BoV) will be held at

the Packard Conference Center, Building

184, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia on Wednesday

June 7, 2000 from 0900 until 1500. The

purpose of this meeting is to report back

to the BoV on continuing items of

interest. The agenda will also include a

presentation by a FY 1999 DAU External

Acquisition Research Program awardee.

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Dated: May 4, 2000.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate, OSD Federal Liaison Officer,

Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

The Joint Staff; National Defense

University (NDU), Board of Visitors

(BOV); Meeting

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SUMMARY: The President, National

Defense University has scheduled a

meeting of the Board of Visitors.

DATES: The meeting will be held

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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in

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Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Arbitration Panel Decision Under the

Randolph-Sheppard Act

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of Arbitration Panel

Decision Under the Randolph-Sheppard

Act.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that on

March 16,1999, and August 13, 1999, an

arbitration panel rendered decisions on

both merit and remedy in the matter of

James E. Waldie v. Alabama

Department of Rehabilitation Services

(Docket No. R–S/97–13). This panel was

convened by the U.S. Department of

Education pursuant to 20 U.S.C. 107d–

1(a) upon receipt of a complaint filed by

petitioner, James E. Waldie.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: A copy of the

full text of the arbitration panel decision

may be obtained from George F.

Arsnow, U.S. Department of Education,

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3230,

Mary E. Switzer Building, Washington

DC 20202–2738. Telephone: (202) 205–

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U.S.C. 107d–2(c)) (the Act), the

Secretary publishes in the Federal

Register a synopsis of each arbitration

panel decision affecting the

administration of vending facilities on

Federal and other property.

Background

This dispute concerns the alleged

improper denial by the Alabama

Department of Rehabilitation Services,

the State licensing agency (SLA), of Mr.

James E. Waldie’s request to bid on a

full food service vending facility at Fort

McClellan, Anniston, Alabama. A

summary of the facts is as follows: In

April 1996, the SLA informed licensed

blind vendors of an opportunity to

manage a full food service vending

facility at Fort McClellan, Anniston,

Alabama. Twelve persons bid on the

Fort McClellan vending facility

including Mr. James E. Waldie. On April

23, 1996, the selection committee,

which included members of the Elected

Committee of Blind Vendors, met to

make the selection for the Fort

McClellan vending facility. Following

the selection committee’s evaluation,

they unanimously awarded the Fort

McClellan location to another vendor.

The decision to award the location to

another vendor rather than complainant

was based upon the successful vendor

receiving the highest total number of

points of any applicant, including

additional points for seniority.

Mr. Waldie was informed of the SLA’s

decision to award the bid to another

vendor for the Fort McClellan vending

facility. Complainant requested that the

SLA convene a full evidentiary hearing

on this matter, which was held on

January 2, 1997.

Following the hearing, the hearing

officer affirmed the selection

committee’s decision to award the Fort

McClellan bid to the other vendor, and

the SLA adopted the hearing officer’s

decision as final agency action. It is this

decision that complainant sought to

have reviewed by a Federal arbitration

panel. An arbitration panel heard this

matter on November 16, 1998,

concerning the merits of the case and on

May 26, 1999, regarding the remedy

given to Mr. Waldie.

Arbitration Panel Decision

The issue before the arbitration panel

was whether the Alabama Department

of Rehabilitation Services violated the

policies and procedures governing the

Business Enterprise Program of Alabama

during the selection of a vendor/

manager for the Fort McClellan,

Anniston, Alabama facility pursuant to

the Act (20 U.S.C. 107 et seq.) and the

implementing regulations (34 CFR part

395).

In ruling on the merits of the case, a

majority of the panel determined that

the successful bidder should have been

disqualified since that vendor did not

fulfill the training requirements for

managing a full food service operation

such as the Fort McClellan vending

facility. In reaching that conclusion, the

majority of the panel noted that the SLA

had sponsored a special 18-week

program dedicated solely to cafeteria

operations and had stated that specific

cafeteria training was a prerequisite for

any individual to be selected for a

cafeteria facility under the Business

Enterprise Program.

The majority of the panel further

noted that Mr. Waldie had completed

this training while the successful bidder

for the Fort McClellan vending facility

had never taken this or similar cafeteria

training. The majority of the panel

concluded that, since the full food

service operation at Fort McClellan was

the equivalent of a cafeteria, the