62284 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 225 / Friday, November 21, 1997 / Notices

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR

SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List; Proposed Additions

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Proposed additions to

Procurement List.

SUMMARY: The Committee has received

proposals to add to the Procurement List

commodities and services to be

furnished by nonprofit agencies

employing persons who are blind or

have other severe disabilities.

COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR

BEFORE: December 22, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase

From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Crystal Square 3, Suite 403,

1735 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3461.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Beverly Milkman (703) 603–7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice is published pursuant to 41

U.S.C. 47(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its

purpose is to provide interested persons

an opportunity to submit comments on

the possible impact of the proposed

actions.

If the Committee approves the

proposed additions, all entities of the

Federal Government (except as

otherwise indicated) will be required to

procure the commodities and services

listed below from nonprofit agencies

employing persons who are blind or

have other severe disabilities.

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 any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities other than the small

organizations that will furnish the

commodities and services to the

Government.

2. The action does not appear to have

a severe economic impact on current

contractors for the commodities and

services.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

commodities and services to the

Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the commodities and

services proposed for addition to the

Procurement List. Comments on this

certification are invited. Commenters

should identify the statement(s)

underlying the certification on which

they are providing additional

information.

The following commodities and

services have been proposed for

addition to Procurement List for

production by the nonprofit agencies

listed:

Commodities

Office and Miscellaneous Supplies

(Requirments for the Naval Station,

Ingleside, Texas)

NPA: South Texas Lighthouse for the

Blind, Corpus Christi, Texas

Extra Life & Shipper

M.R. 858

M.R. 859

NPA: Industries of the Blind, Inc.,

Greensboro, North Carolina

Sponge, Cellulose

7920–01–444–3650

NPA: Mississippi Industries for the

Blind, Jackson, Mississippi

Services

Janitorial/Custodial

Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Federal Center

9th & Market Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

NPA: Elwyn, Inc., Elwyn, Pennsylvania

Mailroom Operation

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Denver, Colorado

NPA: Bayaud Industries, Inc., Denver,

Colorado

Switchboard Operation

Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2250

Leestown Road

Lexington, Kentucky

NPA: Kentucky Industries for the Blind,

Louisville, Kentucky.

Beverly L. Milkman,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 97–30677 Filed 11–20–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR

SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List; Additions and

Deletions

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Additions to and deletions from

the Procurement List.

SUMMARY: This action adds to the

Procurement List commodities and

services to be furnished by nonprofit

agencies employing persons who are

blind or have other severe disabilities,

and deletes from the Procurement List

commodities previously furnished by

such agencies.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 22, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase

From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Crystal Square 3, Suite 403,

1735 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3461.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Beverly Milkman (703) 603–7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June

13, August 1, September 5, 12, 26 and

October 3, 1997, the Committee for

Purchase From People Who Are Blind

or Severely Disabled published notices

(62 FR 32288, 41339, 46943, 48050,

50555 and 51827) of proposed additions

to and deletions from the Procurement

List:

Additions

The Following Comments Pertain to

Janitorial/Custodial, Calexico,

California

Comments were received from the

current contractor for this janitorial/

custodial service. The commenter

claimed that this addition to the

Procurement List would have a severe

adverse impact on the company and its

employees as little other Federal work

would remain in its area after this and

other Procurement List additions.

This addition would not, in the

Committee’s view, remove a large

enough percentage of the commenter’s

total sales to constitute severe adverse

impact. The commenter was not the

current contractor for the other janitorial

services in its area which have been

added to the Procurement List, so it was

not impacted by losing the opportunity

to perform those services. The

commenter did not provide information

concerning possible job losses by its

employees, but given the relatively

small amount of labor involved in the

contract, at most only one or two

employees would be impacted.

Moreover, the Procurement List

addition will create employment for

people with severe disabilities, who

have an unemployment rate far above

that of people without disabilities.

Consequently, the Committee believes

this job creation outweighs the possible

job loss by one or two of the

commenter’s employees.

The Following Comments Pertain to

Tray, MM, Fiberboard

The Committee initially proposed to

add the Government requirement for

fiberboard MM trays and sleeves to the

Procurement List. Comments were

received from two companies which