83 FR 49550 - Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 191 (October 2, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 2, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 49550-49551] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-21423] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the Randolph-Sheppard Act AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice lists arbitration panel decisions under the Randolph-Sheppard Act issued in January, February, and March 2018. This notice also lists any older decisions that the Department has made publicly available in accessible electronic format during that period. All decisions are available on the Department's website and by request. 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. Email: donald.brinson@ed.gov. If you use a [[Page 49551]] 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 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 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 requires 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). On September 5, 2017, the Department announced that it would publish quarterly lists of Randolph-Sheppard arbitration panel decisions in the Federal Register and that the full text of the decisions listed would be available on the Department's website or by request (see 82 FR 41941). In the first quarter of 2018, Randolph-Sheppard arbitration panels issued the following decisions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case name Docket No. Date State ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities for Ohioans with R-S/16-08 2/22/18 OH Disabilities v. Wright Patterson Air Force Base. California Vendors Policy Committee v. R-S/10-09 2/20/18 CA California Department of Rehabilitation. Taylor v. Wisconsin's Department of R-S/12-01 2/05/18 WI Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Florida Department of Education v. R-S/16-04 1/30/18 FL Tyndall Air Force Base. Hooks v. North Carolina Division of R-S/15-16 1/02/18 NC Services for the Blind. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These decisions, and other decisions that we have already posted, are searchable by key terms, are accessible under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) at www.ed.gov/programs/rsarsp/arbitration-decisions.html or by request to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. At the same site, we have posted the following decision from 2016. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case name Docket No. Date State ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Department of Assistive and R-S/13-13 11/2/16 TX Rehabilitative Services v. Fort Bliss. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc) on request to the contact person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register.ou may access the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations via the Federal Digital System at: www.thefederalregister.org/fdsys. At this site you can view this document, as well as all other documents of this Department 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 documents of the Departmentpublished 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. Dated: September 26, 2018. Johnny W. Collett, Assistant Secretary, Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. [FR Doc. 2018-21423 Filed 10-1-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000-01-P
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Dahlin, 202–606–6931 or EDahlin@ Dated: September 25, 2018.
cns.gov. Erin Dahlin,
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Deputy Chief of Program Operations.
COMMUNITY SERVICE Title of Collection: AmeriCorps [FR Doc. 2018–21376 Filed 10–1–18; 8:45 am]
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Agency Information Collection OMB Control Number: 3045–0054.
Activities; Submission to the Office of Type of Review: Renewal.
Management and Budget for Review Respondents/Affected Public:
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and Approval; Comment Request; Individuals.
AmeriCorps Member Application Total Estimated Number of Annual Arbitration Panel Decisions Under the
Responses: 250,000. Randolph-Sheppard Act
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Community Service (CNCS). Burden Hours: 281,250. AGENCY: Office of Special Education and
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Member Application Form. Applicants
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CNCS is proposing to renew an in this ICR in order to apply to serve as panel decisions under the Randolph-
information collection. AmeriCorps members. CNCS also seeks Sheppard Act issued in January,
DATES: Written comments must be to continue using the currently February, and March 2018. This notice
submitted to the individual and office approved information collection until also lists any older decisions that the
listed in the ADDRESSES section by the revised information collection is Department has made publicly available
December 3, 2018. approved by OMB. The currently in accessible electronic format during
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, approved information collection is due that period. All decisions are available
identified by the title of the information to expire on December 31, 2018. on the Department’s website and by
collection activity, by any of the Comments submitted in response to request.
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following methods: this notice will be summarized and/or FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for included in the request for OMB Donald Brinson, U.S. Department of
National and Community Service, approval. Comments are invited on: (a) Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW,
AmeriCorps State & National; ATTN: Whether the collection of information is Room 5045, Potomac Center Plaza,
Erin Dahlin, Deputy Chief of Program necessary for the proper performance of Washington, DC 20202–2800.
Operations, 250 E Street SW, the functions of the agency, including Telephone: (202) 245–7310. Email:
Washington, DC 20525. whether the information shall have donald.brinson@ed.gov. If you use a
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telecommunications device for the deaf facilities include, among other things, makes these decisions matters of public
(TDD) or a text telephone (TTY), call the cafeterias, snack bars, and automatic record and requires their publication in
Federal Relay Service, toll-free, at 1– vending machines. The Department the Federal Register. 20 U.S.C. 107d–
800–877–8339. administers the Act and designates an 2(c).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the agency in each State—the State On September 5, 2017, the
purpose of providing individuals who Licensing Agency (SLA)—to license Department announced that it would
are blind with remunerative individuals who are blind to operate
publish quarterly lists of Randolph-
employment, enlarging their economic vending facilities on Federal and other
Sheppard arbitration panel decisions in
opportunities, and stimulating greater property in the State.
the Federal Register and that the full
efforts to make themselves self- The Act requires arbitration of
disputes between SLAs and vendors text of the decisions listed would be
supporting, the Randolph-Sheppard
Act, 20 U.S.C. 107 et seq. (Act), who are blind and between SLAs and available on the Department’s website or
authorizes individuals who are blind to Federal agencies before three-person by request (see 82 FR 41941).
operate vending facilities on Federal panels convened by the Department In the first quarter of 2018, Randolph-
property and provides them with a whose decisions constitute final agency Sheppard arbitration panels issued the
priority for doing so. The vending action. 20 U.S.C. 107d–1. The Act also following decisions.
Case name Docket No. Date State
Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities v. Wright Patterson Air Force Base ................................ R–S/16–08 2/22/18 OH
California Vendors Policy Committee v. California Department of Rehabilitation .............................. R–S/10–09 2/20/18 CA
Taylor v. Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation R–S/12–01 2/05/18 WI
Florida Department of Education v. Tyndall Air Force Base .............................................................. R–S/16–04 1/30/18 FL
Hooks v. North Carolina Division of Services for the Blind ................................................................ R–S/15–16 1/02/18 NC
These decisions, and other decisions Act, and are available in Portable person listed under FOR FURTHER
that we have already posted, are Document Format (PDF) at www.ed.gov/ INFORMATION CONTACT.
searchable by key terms, are accessible programs/rsarsp/arbitration- At the same site, we have posted the
under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation decisions.html or by request to the following decision from 2016.
Case name Docket No. Date State
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services v. Fort Bliss .......................................... R–S/13–13 11/2/16 TX
Accessible Format: Individuals with Dated: September 26, 2018. comments received on the document,
disabilities can obtain this document in Johnny W. Collett, the comment period is being extended.
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large Assistant Secretary, Special Education and DATES: The comment period for the draft
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on Rehabilitative Services. policy statement published on
request to the contact person listed [FR Doc. 2018–21423 Filed 10–1–18; 8:45 am] September 10, 2018, at 83 FR 45618, is
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