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Service(s)
Service Type: Switchboard Operation
Mandatory for: US Air Force, Telephone
Operator Consolidated Call Center; 180
Benedict Avenue: Joint Base LangleyEustis, VA
Mandatory Source of Supply: VersAbility
Resources, Inc., Hampton, VA
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE AIR
FORCE, FA4890 ACC AMIC
Service Type: Janitorial/Custodial
Mandatory for: Hannibal Federal Building,
801 Broadway, Hannibal, MO
Contracting Activity: PUBLIC BUILDINGS
SERVICE, GSA/PUBLIC BUILDINGS
SERVICE
Service Type: Laundry/Dry Cleaning
Mandatory for: US Air Force, 911th Airlift
Wing, Pittsburg International Airport
ARS, Coraopolis, PA; 2375 Defense
Avenue; Coraopolis, PA
Mandatory Source of Supply: Hancock
County Sheltered Workshop, Inc.,
Weirton, WV
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE AIR
FORCE, FA6712 911 AW LGC
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Acting Director, Business Operations.
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BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposals, Submissions,
and Approvals
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled operates as the U.S. AbilityOne
Commission (Commission). This notice
announces the Commission’s intent to
submit the Information Collection
Request (‘‘ICR’’) described below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for approval under applicable
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act. This notice provides an
opportunity to interested members of
the public and affected agencies to
comment on a proposed Participating
Employee Eligibility form.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
January 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Stewart, Compliance and
Enforcement Attorney, Office of General
Counsel, U.S. AbilityOne Commission,
355 E Street SW, Suite 325, Washington,

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DC 20024; telephone: (703) 254–6172;
email: [email protected]. 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:
Overview of ICR: This notice pertains
to an ICR the Commission intends to
submit to OMB to approve the form that
an AbilityOne-participating nonprofit
agency employer will fill out to
document its determination of an
individual’s eligibility to be a
participating employee in the
AbilityOne Program. The form is an
updated and modified version of the
Commission’s Individual Eligibility
Evaluation (IEE) form (OMB Control #
3037–0012). The purpose of the IEE was
to determine and document an
individual’s eligibility to participate in
the AbilityOne Program by identifying
the individual’s barriers to employment
as well as the job supports the
individual needs to perform their job.
This ICR is consistent with OMB
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.) These regulations require the
Commission to provide an opportunity
to interested members of the public and
affected agencies to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)) such as those proposed to be
implemented through this form.
The Commission is responsible for
implementing the Javits-Wagner-O’Day
(JWOD) Act, 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506. In
doing so, the Commission oversees the
AbilityOne Program, an employment
program in which individuals who are
blind or have significant disabilities
provide products and services to
Federal agencies, thereby creating
employment opportunities. The
Commission maintains a Procurement
List of mandatory source products and
services provided by approximately 450
qualified nonprofit agencies (NPAs).
The individuals who are blind or have
significant disabilities working on
AbilityOne contracts are called
‘‘participating employees.’’
The Commission collects certain data
from qualified NPAs regarding
participating employees in order to
ensure the integrity of the AbilityOne
Program. Providing effective program
stewardship requires collection of
information to protect participating
employees and ensure that positions
intended for individuals who are blind
or have significant disabilities are, in
fact, filled by those individuals.
The proposed data collection form in
this ICR is consistent with the

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Commission’s responsibilities and
ensures that the Commission will
collect the most pertinent data to inform
its oversight and decision making.
The form described in this ICR is the
first of two forms intended to modernize
the existing IEE form and align it with
the Commission’s strategic plan and
updated approach to determining
eligibility for participating employees.
The Commission has outlined the
criteria for eligibility for participating
employees in its Policy 51.403, which
will be published in final form on
November 17, 2023, and will be
effective on January 1, 2024.
As outlined in Policy 51.403, and
reflected in the proposed form, a
significant change in the Commission’s
approach to determining a prospective
employee’s eligibility for the AbilityOne
Program is the Commission’s acceptance
of other governmental agency
determinations of disability. For
example, individuals deemed eligible
for Social Security disability benefits are
now automatically eligible to participate
in the AbilityOne Program. The
proposed form described in this ICR
enables NPAs to certify that an
individual has a determination of
disability from a governmental agency,
and in so doing, streamlines the process
to qualify individuals for employment
in the AbilityOne Program.
A draft version of the form NPAs will
complete is available at
www.abilityone.gov (see News and
Events column on the homepage). For
individuals who meet the eligibility
requirements under either Part A or Part
B of the proposed form, the Commission
estimates that completing the form will
take approximately 5 minutes. For
individuals who meet the eligibility
requirements under Part C or Part D of
the proposed form, the Commission
estimates that completing the form will
take approximately 30 minutes. NPAs
completing Part C or Part D of the form
will need to complete Part E, as well,
which is included in the estimated 30
minutes.
In accordance with these and other
changes reflected in Policy 51.403, the
Commission estimates that the time and
financial burden to the NPAs in
completing the proposed form will be
significantly lower than required by the
corresponding sections of the existing
IEE form. Over time, this form will
further substantially reduce the burden
on NPAs because, in most cases, it will
be filled out only once per employee—
i.e., when an employee is onboarded—
and not on an annual basis as required
by the existing IEE form. For employees
with a non-permanent disability, the
form will be completed on a recurring,

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seven-year basis. The Commission
estimates that approximately 10% of
AbilityOne employees have nonpermanent disabilities.
To calculate the burden for
completion of the proposed form, the
Commission considered an estimate
from the Society for Human Resource
Management that the average annual
turnover across all industries is
approximately 18 percent. Using this
number, the Commission estimated that
Number of employees for whom NPA
must complete form

NPAs may need to complete this form
for approximately 18 percent of their
total employees each year. However,
AbilityOne employers may experience
lower turnover than employer in the
general economy. The Commission
acknowledges that net AbilityOne job
growth may result in NPAs completing
additional forms.
The table below shows the
Commission’s estimate for the average
amount of time per employee for whom

36,377 (Year 1) ......................................
520 (Years 2+) .......................................

6,548
6,548

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NPAs can calculate their overall time
burden (in hours) by multiplying the
number of participating employees they
have by 0.5. The cost burden is based
upon national average pay data from the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, using
the May 2022 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimate of
$30.88 as the median hourly wage for a
Human Resources Specialist (OC 13–
1070). (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
oes_nat.htm#11-0000)
With respect to this collection of
information via the proposed form, the
Commission welcomes comments on
the following:
• The necessity to collect this
information to support the
Commission’s mission and oversight
responsibilities;
• Methodology to improve the
accuracy of the estimated time burden;
i.e., specific year-over-year employee
turnover rates for NPAs or number of
additional employee hires above
turnovers, expressed as a percentage of
the NPAs’ total number of participating
employees;
• Methodology to determine the
percentage of participating employees
who have non-permanent disabilities;
• Suggestions or methods to
minimize the burdens associated with
collecting the information described in
this ICR.
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Acting Director, Business Operations.
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Maximum
responses for this
form

Annual turnover/
entry rate of 18%

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Procurement List; Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.

AGENCY:

Deletions from the Procurement

List.
This action deletes service(s)
from the Procurement List that were
furnished by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities.

SUMMARY:

Date added to and deleted from
the Procurement List: December 17,
2023.

DATES:

Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 355 E Street SW, Suite 325,
Washington, DC 20024.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For

further information or to submit
comments contact: Michael R.
Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 785–6404,
or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Deletions
On 10/13/2023, the Committee for
Purchase From People Who Are Blind
or Severely Disabled published notice of
proposed deletions from the
Procurement List. This notice is
published pursuant to 41 U.S.C. 8503
(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3.
After consideration of the relevant
matter presented, the Committee has
determined that the service(s) listed
below are no longer suitable for
procurement by the Federal Government
under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR
51–2.4.

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Total time burden
for all employees
(hours)

0.5
0.5

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED

ACTION:

the NPAs complete a form, both in the
first year of implementation (‘‘Year 1’’)
and in the following years of
implementation (‘‘Years 2+’’). The
Commission recognizes that NPAs vary
widely in total number of employees.
Therefore, an NPA can apply this
analysis based on their individual
employment totals.

Annual form
burden
(hours/employee)

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21,462.5
3,534

Annual form cost
burden
(dollars)
662,762
109,130

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
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
additional reporting, recordkeeping or
other compliance requirements for small
entities.
2. The action may result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
service(s) to the Government.
3. There are no known regulatory
alternatives which would accomplish
the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in
connection with the service(s) deleted
from the Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following service(s)
are deleted from the Procurement List:
Service(s)
Service Type: Grounds Maintenance
Mandatory for: NOAA, National
Weather Service Forecast Office,
Charleston, WV; 400 Parkway Road;
Charleston, WV
Designated Source of Supply: Goodwill
Industries of Kanawha Valley,
Charleston, WV
Contracting Activity: NATIONAL
OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC
ADMINISTRATION, DEPT OF
COMMERCE NOAA
Service Type: Laundry Service
Mandatory for: US Air Force,
Youngstown Municipal Airport,
910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air
Reserve Station, 3976 King Graves
Road; Vienna, OH
Mandatory Source of Supply: Hancock
County Sheltered Workshop, Inc.,
Weirton, WV

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