[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84341-84342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 https://rsa.ed.gov/about/programs/randolph-sheppard-vending-facility-program/decisions-of-arbitration-panels 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 www.govinfo.gov. 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 
www.federalregister.gov. 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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