Procurement List; Proposed Additions and Deletions

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List; Proposed Additions and Deletions

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Proposed Additions to and Deletions from Procurement List.

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SUMMARY: The Committee has received proposals to add to the Procurement

List a commodity and services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies

employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, and

to delete commodities and services previously furnished by such

agencies.

COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE: October 18, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Crystal Gateway 3, Suite 310, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202-4302.

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.

Additions

If the Committee approves the proposed addition, all entities of

the Federal Government (except as otherwise indicated) will be required

to procure the commodity and services listed below from nonprofit

agencies

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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 commodity and

services to the Government.

2. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish

the commodity and services to the Government.

3. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would

accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-

48c) in connection with the commodity 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 commodity and services have been proposed for

addition to Procurement List for production by the nonprofit agencies

listed:

Commodity

Cloth, Cleaning

7920-00-292-9204

NPA: East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind, Tyler, Texas

Services

Janitorial/Custodial

Naval Medical Center (NMC) and Branch Medical and Dental Clinics

at the following locations:

North Island Naval Air Station, Naval Station, Naval Amphibious

Base, Miramar Naval Air Station, Naval Training Center and Marine

Corp Recruit Depot San Diego, CA

NPA: Job Options, Inc., San Diego, California

Janitorial/Custodial

Basewide, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey

NPA: Occupational Training Center of Morris County, Cedar

Knolls, New Jersey

Deletions

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.

2. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish

the commodities and services to the Government.

3. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would

accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-

48c) in connection with the commodities and services proposed for

deletion from the Procurement List.

The following commodities and services have been proposed for

deletion from the Procurement List:

Commodities

Table, Office, Steel

7110-00-149-2045

7110-00-113-0454

7110-00-113-0448

7110-00-149-2044

7110-00-149-2046

Cleaner, Water Soluble

7930-01-367-2962

Hood, Anti-Flash, Flame

Resistant 8415-01-268-3473

Shirt, Sleeping

8415-00-890-2102

8415-00-890-2101

8415-00-935-6855

8415-00-890-2099

8415-00-890-2103

8415-00-890-2100

Services

Bus Service

Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Outpatient Clinic, Tomah,

Wisconsin

Document Processing

U.S. Coast Guard Institute, 5900 SW 64th Street, Oklahoma City,

Oklahoma

Beverly L. Milkman,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 99-24276 Filed 9-16-99; 8:45 am]

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