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Service(s) 

Service Type: Switchboard Operation 

Mandatory for: US Air Force, Telephone 

Operator Consolidated Call Center; 180 

Benedict Avenue: Joint Base LangleyEustis, VA 

Mandatory Source of Supply: VersAbility 

Resources, Inc., Hampton, VA 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE AIR 

FORCE, FA4890 ACC AMIC 

Service Type: Janitorial/Custodial 

Mandatory for: Hannibal Federal Building, 

801 Broadway, Hannibal, MO 

Contracting Activity: PUBLIC BUILDINGS 

SERVICE, GSA/PUBLIC BUILDINGS 

SERVICE 

Service Type: Laundry/Dry Cleaning 

Mandatory for: US Air Force, 911th Airlift 

Wing, Pittsburg International Airport 

ARS, Coraopolis, PA; 2375 Defense 

Avenue; Coraopolis, PA 

Mandatory Source of Supply: Hancock 

County Sheltered Workshop, Inc., 

Weirton, WV 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE AIR 

FORCE, FA6712 911 AW LGC 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Acting Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25418 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposals, Submissions, 

and Approvals 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled operates as the U.S. AbilityOne 

Commission (Commission). This notice 

announces the Commission’s intent to 

submit the Information Collection 

Request (‘‘ICR’’) described below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for approval under applicable 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act. This notice provides an 

opportunity to interested members of 

the public and affected agencies to 

comment on a proposed Participating 

Employee Eligibility form. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

January 16, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to 

policy@abilityone.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Stewart, Compliance and 

Enforcement Attorney, Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. AbilityOne Commission, 

355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington, 

DC 20024; telephone: (703) 254–6172; 

email: cstewart@abilityone.gov. 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: 

Overview of ICR: This notice pertains 

to an ICR the Commission intends to 

submit to OMB to approve the form that 

an AbilityOne-participating nonprofit 

agency employer will fill out to 

document its determination of an 

individual’s eligibility to be a 

participating employee in the 

AbilityOne Program. The form is an 

updated and modified version of the 

Commission’s Individual Eligibility 

Evaluation (IEE) form (OMB Control # 

3037–0012). The purpose of the IEE was 

to determine and document an 

individual’s eligibility to participate in 

the AbilityOne Program by identifying 

the individual’s barriers to employment 

as well as the job supports the 

individual needs to perform their job. 

This ICR is consistent with OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.) These regulations require the 

Commission to provide an opportunity 

to interested members of the public and 

affected agencies to comment on 

information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)) such as those proposed to be 

implemented through this form. 

The Commission is responsible for 

implementing the Javits-Wagner-O’Day 

(JWOD) Act, 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506. In 

doing so, the Commission oversees the 

AbilityOne Program, an employment 

program in which individuals who are 

blind or have significant disabilities 

provide products and services to 

Federal agencies, thereby creating 

employment opportunities. The 

Commission maintains a Procurement 

List of mandatory source products and 

services provided by approximately 450 

qualified nonprofit agencies (NPAs). 

The individuals who are blind or have 

significant disabilities working on 

AbilityOne contracts are called 

‘‘participating employees.’’ 

The Commission collects certain data 

from qualified NPAs regarding 

participating employees in order to 

ensure the integrity of the AbilityOne 

Program. Providing effective program 

stewardship requires collection of 

information to protect participating 

employees and ensure that positions 

intended for individuals who are blind 

or have significant disabilities are, in 

fact, filled by those individuals. 

The proposed data collection form in 

this ICR is consistent with the 

Commission’s responsibilities and 

ensures that the Commission will 

collect the most pertinent data to inform 

its oversight and decision making. 

The form described in this ICR is the 

first of two forms intended to modernize 

the existing IEE form and align it with 

the Commission’s strategic plan and 

updated approach to determining 

eligibility for participating employees. 

The Commission has outlined the 

criteria for eligibility for participating 

employees in its Policy 51.403, which 

will be published in final form on 

November 17, 2023, and will be 

effective on January 1, 2024. 

As outlined in Policy 51.403, and 

reflected in the proposed form, a 

significant change in the Commission’s 

approach to determining a prospective 

employee’s eligibility for the AbilityOne 

Program is the Commission’s acceptance 

of other governmental agency 

determinations of disability. For 

example, individuals deemed eligible 

for Social Security disability benefits are 

now automatically eligible to participate 

in the AbilityOne Program. The 

proposed form described in this ICR 

enables NPAs to certify that an 

individual has a determination of 

disability from a governmental agency, 

and in so doing, streamlines the process 

to qualify individuals for employment 

in the AbilityOne Program. 

A draft version of the form NPAs will 

complete is available at 

www.abilityone.gov (see News and 

Events column on the homepage). For 

individuals who meet the eligibility 

requirements under either Part A or Part 

B of the proposed form, the Commission 

estimates that completing the form will 

take approximately 5 minutes. For 

individuals who meet the eligibility 

requirements under Part C or Part D of 

the proposed form, the Commission 

estimates that completing the form will 

take approximately 30 minutes. NPAs 

completing Part C or Part D of the form 

will need to complete Part E, as well, 

which is included in the estimated 30 

minutes. 

In accordance with these and other 

changes reflected in Policy 51.403, the 

Commission estimates that the time and 

financial burden to the NPAs in 

completing the proposed form will be 

significantly lower than required by the 

corresponding sections of the existing 

IEE form. Over time, this form will 

further substantially reduce the burden 

on NPAs because, in most cases, it will 

be filled out only once per employee— 

i.e., when an employee is onboarded— 

and not on an annual basis as required 

by the existing IEE form. For employees 

with a non-permanent disability, the 

form will be completed on a recurring, 


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seven-year basis. The Commission 

estimates that approximately 10% of 

AbilityOne employees have nonpermanent disabilities. 

To calculate the burden for 

completion of the proposed form, the 

Commission considered an estimate 

from the Society for Human Resource 

Management that the average annual 

turnover across all industries is 

approximately 18 percent. Using this 

number, the Commission estimated that 

NPAs may need to complete this form 

for approximately 18 percent of their 

total employees each year. However, 

AbilityOne employers may experience 

lower turnover than employer in the 

general economy. The Commission 

acknowledges that net AbilityOne job 

growth may result in NPAs completing 

additional forms. 

The table below shows the 

Commission’s estimate for the average 

amount of time per employee for whom 

the NPAs complete a form, both in the 

first year of implementation (‘‘Year 1’’) 

and in the following years of 

implementation (‘‘Years 2+’’). The 

Commission recognizes that NPAs vary 

widely in total number of employees. 

Therefore, an NPA can apply this 

analysis based on their individual 

employment totals. 

Number of employees for whom NPA 

must complete form 

Annual turnover/ 

entry rate of 18% 

Maximum 

responses for this 

form 

Annual form 

burden 

(hours/employee) 

Total time burden 

for all employees 

(hours) 

Annual form cost 

burden 

(dollars) 

36,377 (Year 1) ...................................... 6,548 42,925 0.5 21,462.5 662,762 

520 (Years 2+) ....................................... 6,548 7,068 0.5 3,534 109,130 

NPAs can calculate their overall time 

burden (in hours) by multiplying the 

number of participating employees they 

have by 0.5. The cost burden is based 

upon national average pay data from the 

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, using 

the May 2022 National Occupational 

Employment and Wage Estimate of 

$30.88 as the median hourly wage for a 

Human Resources Specialist (OC 13– 

1070). (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/ 

oes_nat.htm#11-0000) 

With respect to this collection of 

information via the proposed form, the 

Commission welcomes comments on 

the following: 

• The necessity to collect this 

information to support the 

Commission’s mission and oversight 

responsibilities; 

• Methodology to improve the 

accuracy of the estimated time burden; 

i.e., specific year-over-year employee 

turnover rates for NPAs or number of 

additional employee hires above 

turnovers, expressed as a percentage of 

the NPAs’ total number of participating 

employees; 

• Methodology to determine the 

percentage of participating employees 

who have non-permanent disabilities; 

• Suggestions or methods to 

minimize the burdens associated with 

collecting the information described in 

this ICR. 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Acting Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25499 Filed 11–16–23; 8:45 am] 

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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Deletions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Deletions from the Procurement 

List. 

SUMMARY: This action deletes service(s) 

from the Procurement List that were 

furnished by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities. 

DATES: Date added to and deleted from 

the Procurement List: December 17, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325, 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information or to submit 

comments contact: Michael R. 

Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 785–6404, 

or email CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Deletions 

On 10/13/2023, the Committee for 

Purchase From People Who Are Blind 

or Severely Disabled published notice of 

proposed deletions from the 

Procurement List. This notice is 

published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503 

(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. 

After consideration of the relevant 

matter presented, the Committee has 

determined that the service(s) listed 

below are no longer suitable for 

procurement by the Federal Government 

under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR 

51–2.4. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. The action will not result in 

additional reporting, recordkeeping or 

other compliance requirements for small 

entities. 

2. The action may result in 

authorizing small entities to furnish the 

service(s) to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in 

connection with the service(s) deleted 

from the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

Accordingly, the following service(s) 

are deleted from the Procurement List: 

Service(s) 

Service Type: Grounds Maintenance 

Mandatory for: NOAA, National 

Weather Service Forecast Office, 

Charleston, WV; 400 Parkway Road; 

Charleston, WV 

Designated Source of Supply: Goodwill 

Industries of Kanawha Valley, 

Charleston, WV 

Contracting Activity: NATIONAL 

OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC 

ADMINISTRATION, DEPT OF 

COMMERCE NOAA 

Service Type: Laundry Service 

Mandatory for: US Air Force, 

Youngstown Municipal Airport, 

910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air 

Reserve Station, 3976 King Graves 

Road; Vienna, OH 

Mandatory Source of Supply: Hancock 

County Sheltered Workshop, Inc., 

Weirton, WV 


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