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and functions. Such statements may be 

submitted at any time or in response to 

the stated agenda of planned Board 

meetings. All written statements must 

be submitted to the Board’s DFO who 

will ensure the written statements are 

provided to the membership for their 

consideration. 

Dated: August 30, 2017. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18695 Filed 9–1–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Charter Renewal of Department of 

Defense Federal Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory 

Committee. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) is publishing this notice to 

announce that it is renewing the charter 

for the Defense Policy Board (‘‘the 

Board’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the Department 

of Defense, 703–692–5952. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

committee’s charter is being renewed in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 

U.S.C., Appendix, as amended) and 41 

CFR 102–3.50(d). The charter and 

contact information for the Board’s 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) can be 

obtained at http://

www.facadatabase.gov/. 

The Board shall provide the Secretary 

of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of 

Defense, independent, informed advice 

and opinions concerning matters of 

defense policy in response to specific 

tasks from the Secretary of Defense, the 

Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the 

USD(P). The Board shall focus on: (a) 

Issues central to strategic DoD planning; 

(b) policy implications of U.S. force 

structure and force modernization on 

DoD’s ability to execute U.S. defense 

strategy; (c) U.S. regional defense 

policies; and (d) any other topics raised 

by the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy 

Secretary of Defense, or the USD(P). The 

Board shall be composed of no more 

than 35 members who have 

distinguished backgrounds in defense 

and national security affairs. Members 

who are not full-time or permanent parttime Federal officers or employees are 

appointed as experts or consultants 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as 

special government employee members. 

Members who are full-time or 

permanent part-time Federal officers or 

employees are appointed pursuant to 41 

CFR 102–3.130(a) to serve as regular 

government employee members. Each 

member is appointed to provide advice 

on behalf of the Government on the 

basis of their best judgment without 

representing any particular point of 

view and in a manner that is free from 

conflict of interest. Except for 

reimbursement of official Board-related 

travel and per diem, members serve 

without compensation. The DoD, as 

necessary and consistent with the 

Board’s mission and DoD policies and 

procedures, may establish 

subcommittees, task forces, or working 

groups to support the Board, and all 

subcommittees must operate under the 

provisions of FACA and the 

Government in the Sunshine Act. 

Subcommittees will not work 

independently of the Board and must 

report all recommendations and advice 

solely to the Board for full deliberation 

and discussion. Subcommittees, task 

forces, or working groups have no 

authority to make decisions and 

recommendations, verbally or in 

writing, on behalf of the Board. No 

subcommittee or any of its members can 

update or report, verbally or in writing, 

directly to the DoD or any Federal 

officers or employees. The Board’s DFO, 

pursuant to DoD policy, must be a fulltime or permanent part-time DoD 

employee, and must be in attendance for 

the duration of each and every Board/ 

subcommittee meeting. The public or 

interested organizations may submit 

written statements to the Board 

membership about the Board’s mission 

and functions. Such statements may be 

submitted at any time or in response to 

the stated agenda of planned Board 

meetings. All written statements must 

be submitted to the Board’s DFO who 

will ensure the written statements are 

provided to the membership for their 

consideration. 

Dated: August 30, 2017. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18698 Filed 9–1–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the 

Randolph-Sheppard Act 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice of arbitration decisions. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is changing the way it 

notifies the public of arbitration panel 

decisions under the Randolph-Sheppard 

Act. The Department will no longer 

publish detailed synopses of each 

decision in the Federal Register. Rather, 

the Department will publish a quarterly 

notice in the Federal Register listing 

any decisions reached in the previous 

three months. The full text of the 

decisions will be available on the 

Department’s Web site and by request. 

This notice lists decisions from the first 

two quarters of 2017 and available 

decisions from 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donald Brinson, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5045, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2800. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7310. 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 blind persons 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 blind persons 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 

blind persons to operate vending 

facilities on Federal and other property 

in the State. 

The Act requires arbitration of 

disputes between SLAs and blind 

vendors 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’s long-standing 

practice has been to publish in the 

Federal Register detailed synopses of 

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