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Procurement List; Proposed Additions
and Deletions
than the small organizations that will
furnish the services to the Government.
2. If approved, the action will result
in authorizing small entities to furnish
the services 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. 46–48c) in
connection with the 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.
substantial number of small entities.
The major factors considered for this
certification were:
1. If approved, the action may result
in additional reporting, recordkeeping
or other compliance requirements for
small entities.
2. If approved, the action may result
in authorizing small entities to furnish
the products 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. 46–48c) in
connection with the products proposed
for deletion from the Procurement List.
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Proposed additions to and
deletions from procurement list.
End of Certification
The following services are proposed
for addition to Procurement List for
production by the nonprofit agencies
listed:
End of Certification
The following products are proposed
for deletion from the Procurement List:
address the Trinity County Resource
Advisory Committee.
Dated: May 16, 2005.
J. Sharon Heywood,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 05–10077 Filed 5–19–05; 8:45 am]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Committee is proposing
to add to the Procurement List services
to be furnished by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities, and to
delete products previously furnished by
such agencies.
Comments Must Be Received On Or
Before: June 19, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800,
1421 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia, 22202–3259.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT
COMMENTS CONTACT: Sheryl D. Kennerly,
Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax:
(703)603–0655, or e-mail
SKennerly@jwod.gov.
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
proposed actions.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Additions
If the Committee approves the
proposed additions, the entities of the
Federal Government identified in this
notice for each product or service will
be required to procure the services
listed below from nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities.
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. If approved, the action will not
result in any additional reporting,
recordkeeping or other compliance
requirements for small entities other
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Services
Service Type/Location: Custodial Services
(At the following locations), Desert
Chemical Depot, Utah, Tooele Army
Depot, Tooele, Utah.
NPA: Pioneer Adult Rehabilitation Center
Davis County School District, Clearfield,
Utah.
Contracting Activity: U.S. Army Field
Support Command, Rock Island, Illinois.
Service Type/Location: Custodial Services,
William R. Burke Courthouse, Third
Street and Lufkin Avenue, Lufkin, Texas.
NPA: Burke Center, Inc., Lufkin, Texas.
Contracting Activity: GSA, Public Buildings
Service, Central Area—7PCD, Dallas,
Texas.
Service Type/Location: Document
Destruction, Department of Agriculture,
Farm Service Agency, 6501 Beacon
Drive, Kansas City, Missouri.
NPA: Independence and Blue Springs
Industries, Inc., Independence, Missouri.
Contracting Activity: Department of
Agriculture, Farm Service Agency,
Kansas City, Missouri.
Service Type/Location: Mail Delivery
Services (At the following locations at
Fort Hood, Texas),
11 Army Secure Operating Systems,
Building 22019, 22019 53rd Street,
712 Army Secure Operating Systems,
Building 22020, 22020 53rd Street,
9 Army Secure Operating Systems & 3 WS,
Building 90042, 90042 Clarke Road,
Dormitory, Building 91220, Headquarters
Avenue, Room C104,
III Corps Building, 1001 761st Tank
Battalion Avenue, Fort Hood, Texas.
NPA: Professional Contract Services, Inc.,
Austin, Texas.
Contracting Activity: 2nd Contracting
Squadron/LGC, Barksdale AFB,
Louisiana.
Deletions
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
I certify that the following action will
not have a significant impact on a
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Belt, Automobile, Safety NSN: 2540–00–894–
1273—Belt, Automobile, Safety
NSN: 2540–00–894–1275—Belt,
Automobile, Safety
NSN: 2540–00–894–1276—Belt,
Automobile, Safety
NSN: 2540–00–894–1274—Belt,
Automobile, Safety
NPA: Arizona Industries for the Blind,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Contracting Activity: Defense Supply Center
Columbus, Columbus, Ohio.
Tray, Desk
NSN: 7520–00–232–6828—Tray, Desk.
NPA: Opportunity Workshop of Lexington,
Inc., Lexington, Kentucky.
Contracting Activity: GSA/Office Supplies &
Paper Products Acquisition Center New
York, NY.
Sheryl D. Kennerly,
Director, Information Management.
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions and
Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to and Deletions from
Procurement List.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This action adds to the
Procurement List a product and services
to be furnished by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities, and
deletes from the Procurement List
services previously furnished by such
agencies.
DATES: Effective Date: June 19, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
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Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800,
1421 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT
COMMENTS CONTACT: Sheryl D. Kennerly,
Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax: (703)
603–0655, or e-mail
SKennerly@jwod.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Additions
On December 10, 2004, February 4,
and March 25, 2005, the Committee for
Purchase From People Who Are Blind
or Severely Disabled published notice
(69 FR 71777/78, 70 FR 5963, and
15288) of proposed additions to the
Procurement List.
After consideration of the material
presented to it concerning capability of
qualified nonprofit agencies to provide
the products and services and impact of
the additions on the current or most
recent contractors, the Committee has
determined that the products and
services listed below are suitable for
procurement by the Federal Government
under 41 U.S.C. 46–48c and 41 CFR 51–
2.4.
The following comments pertain to
Vegetable Oil (Domestic) 10% of USDA
Requirement:
Comments were received from one of
the current contractors for this vegetable
oil. The commenter also provided
comments on an earlier version of this
proposed addition to the Procurement
List, notice of which appeared in the
December 10, 2004 Federal Register (69
FR 71777), and on an earlier
unpublished version of the proposed
addition. The commenter in its most
recent comments asked the Committee
for Purchase From People Who Are
Blind or Severely Disabled to consider
all of these previous comments to the
extent they remain applicable. The
Committee considered these earlier
comments as they were intended, and
reduced or clarified the quantities being
proposed for addition to the
Procurement List at the two stages of the
addition process to which the earlier
comments applied.
The commenter claimed in its most
recent comments that this proposed
addition does not meet the Committee’s
regulatory requirement that a
Procurement List addition create
employment for people with severe
disabilities because the Committee has
not demonstrated that jobs will be
created for people who are not currently
employed, as opposed to additional
hours for the current work force.
However, this claim does not accurately
reflect the Committee’s regulatory
requirement, which appears at 41 CFR
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51–2.4(a)(1). This regulation provides
that a proposed addition to the
Procurement List must demonstrate a
potential to generate employment for
people with severe disabilities. The
requirement is stated in this way
because until a nonprofit agency
actually produces a product in response
to Government orders, it is impossible
to know with certainty how much labor
the production will create, to say
nothing of which individuals will
perform the labor. In addition, the
Committee only requires a nonprofit
agency to indicate the quantity of direct
labor estimated to be created, not the
individuals who will provide it or their
current employment status. The
nonprofit agency involved in this
proposed addition has provided that
information concerning the amount of
labor that will be created. The nonprofit
agency also indicated that this labor
includes both new and current
employees.
In both current and earlier comments,
the commenter has taken issue with the
Committee’s practice of adding a
percentage of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA)’s overall
requirement for vegetable oil for
domestic programs to the Procurement
List. The commenter noted that the
various types and package sizes are
provided by different contractors. As a
result, the commenter claimed, the fact
that the designated nonprofit agency
will be providing the ten percent of the
overall USDA domestic requirement by
providing liquid vegetable oil in onegallon bottles will have a larger impact
on contractors providing vegetable oil in
this same manner than the percentage
would seem to indicate. Specifically,
the commenter claimed that this
Procurement List addition represents
about thirteen percent of the
requirement for this oil and package
type, and that it is provided by three
small businesses.
The Committee begins its assessment
of impact on contractors affected by
potential Procurement List additions by
sending a certified letter to each
contractor requesting sales data, and
stating that if the contractor does not
reply, the Committee will consider the
lack of a reply as an indication the
contractor does not consider the impact
of the potential addition to be severe.
For this proposed addition to the
Procurement List, the Committee wrote
to several current contractors, including
the three small businesses identified by
the commenter. Two of these businesses
responded and provided sales data. This
information showed that the value of
the proposed addition represents a very
small percentage of the sales of these
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two businesses (less than one percent
each). Even when the impact of earlier
Procurement List additions on one of
the businesses (the commenter), and
that company’s long history as a
supplier of the vegetable oil to USDA is
considered, as provided in the
Committee’s impact assessment
regulation, at 41 CFR 51–2.4(a)(4), the
impact on any of the contractors USDA
identified to the Committee did not rise
to the level which the Committee
considers to constitute severe adverse
impact.
The commenter provided several
scenarios under which it claimed
impact on various suppliers could be
greater, depending on the types of liquid
oil which the designated nonprofit
provided in its one-gallon bottles, and
on possible variations in USDA’s
contract awards for the part of the
domestic vegetable oil not covered by
the Procurement List. However, the
commenter provided no factual support
for these speculations, which involve
actions by USDA which are not within
the Committee’s ability to predict or
control by its addition process.
The commenter also claimed other
impacts on its business, including plant
closures, based on earlier comments
reacting to the initial projected addition,
which was four times the size of the
Procurement List addition the
Committee eventually proposed. The
response from the other small business
to the Committee’s request for sales data
also based its impact claims on this
larger addition plan. The Committee
believes that reduction of the proposed
addition to its current level will prevent
any severe impacts from occurring, as
indicated in the above paragraph on
impact calculation.
Finally, the commenter claimed that
the proposed addition would harm
USDA’s domestic feeding programs, as
the ‘‘contracting premium’’ associated
with the Committee’s program would
limit the amount of food USDA could
provide with its current budget.
However, USDA has informed the
Committee that it supports the proposed
addition to the Procurement List of ten
percent of its requirement for vegetable
oil for domestic programs.
The following material pertains to all
of the items being added to the
Procurement List.
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 any
additional reporting, recordkeeping or
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other compliance requirements for small
entities other than the small
organizations that will furnish the
product and services to the Government.
2. The action will result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
product and services 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. 46–48c) in
connection with the product and
services proposed for addition to the
Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following product
and services are added to the
Procurement List:
Product
Vegetable Oil (Domestic) 10% of USDA
Requirement
NSN: 8945–00–NSH–0002—Vegetable Oil
(Domestic) 10% of USDA Requirement
NPA: Advocacy and Resources Corporation,
Cookeville, Tennessee
Contracting Activity: USDA, Farm Service
Agency, Washington, DC
Services:
Service Type/Location: Custodial Services,
Transportation Security Administration,
Pittsburgh International Airport,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NPA: ARC—Allegheny, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Contracting Activity: GSA, PBS—Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Service Type/Location: Custodial Services,
Williams Gateway Airport, 6416
Sossamon Road, Mesa, Arizona.
NPA: Goodwill Community Services, Inc.,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Contracting Activity: Department of
Homeland Security, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Service Type/Location: Dormitory
Management Services, Department of
Homeland Security, Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center (Artesia
Facility), 1300 W. Richey , Building 25,
Artesia, New Mexico.
NPA: Adelante Development Center, Inc.,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Contracting Activity: Department of
Homeland Security (FLETC), Artesia,
New Mexico.
Service Type/Location: Janitorial/Custodial,
Department of Homeland Security,
Customs and Border Protection, 700
Maritime Street, Oakland, California.
NPA: The Independent Way, Oakland,
California.
Contracting Activity: Department of
Homeland Security, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
(70 FR 15288) of proposed deletions to
the Procurement List.
After consideration of the relevant
matter presented, the Committee has
determined that the services listed
below are no longer suitable for
procurement by the Federal Government
under 41 U.S.C. 46–48c and 41 CFR 51–
2.4.
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 may result in additional
reporting, recordkeeping or other
compliance requirements for small
entities.
2. The action may result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
services 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. 46–48c) in
connection with the services deleted
from the Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following services
are deleted from the Procurement List:
Services
Service Type/Location: Janitorial/Custodial,
U.S. Army Reserve Center, New Orleans,
4200 Michaud Boulevard, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
NPA: Goodworks, Inc., New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Contracting Activity: Department of the
Army.
Service Type/Location: Mailroom Operation,
New Orleans Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (SPR) Site, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
NPA: Goodworks, Inc., New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Contracting Activity: DnyMcDermott
Petroleum Operation Company—
Department of Energy.
Sheryl D. Kennerly,
Director, Information Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1391]
Deletions
On March 25, 2005, the Committee for
Purchase From People Who Are Blind
or Severely Disabled published notice
Grant of Authority for Subzone Status,
Pfizer, Inc. (Pharmaceuticals/Animal
Health Products), Groton, CT
1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) adopts the following Order:
Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones Act
provides for ‘‘* * * the establishment
* * * of foreign-trade zones in ports of
entry of the United States, to expedite
and encourage foreign commerce, and
for other purposes,’’ and authorizes the
Foreign-Trade Zones Board to grant to
qualified corporations the privilege of
establishing foreign-trade zones in or
adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;
Whereas, the Board’s regulations (15
CFR Part 400) provide for the
establishment of special-purpose
subzones when existing zone facilities
cannot serve the specific use involved,
and when the activity results in a
significant public benefit and is in the
public interest;
Whereas, the New London Foreign
Trade Zone Commission, grantee of
Foreign-Trade Zone 208, has made
application to the Board for authority to
establish a special-purpose subzone at
the manufacturing facilities of Pfizer,
Inc., located in Groton, Connecticut
(FTZ Docket 45–2004, filed 10/20/2004);
Whereas, notice inviting public
comment was given in the Federal
Register (69 FR 64434, 10/26/2004);
and,
Whereas, the Board adopts the
findings and recommendations of the
examiner’s report, and finds that the
requirements of the FTZ Act and the
Board’s regulations are satisfied, and
that approval of the application is in the
public interest;
Now, therefore, the Board hereby
grants authority for subzone status for
activity related to pharmaceutical/
animal health products at the
manufacturing facilities of Pfizer, Inc.,
located in Groton, Connecticut (Subzone
208A), at the location described in the
application, and subject to the FTZ Act
and the Board’s regulations, including
§ 400.28.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of
May, 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Import Administration, Alternate Chairman,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
ATTEST:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05–10030 Filed 5–19–05; 8:45 am]
Pursuant to its authority under the
Foreign-Trade Zones Act, of June 18,
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions and Deletions
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to and Deletions from Procurement List.
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SUMMARY: This action adds to the Procurement List a product and
services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who
are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the
Procurement List services previously furnished by such agencies.
DATES: Effective Date: June 19, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
[[Page 29275]]
Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800, 1421 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia 22202-3259.
For Further Information Or To Submit Comments Contact: Sheryl D.
Kennerly, Telephone: (703) 603-7740, Fax: (703) 603-0655, or e-mail
SKennerly@jwod.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Additions
On December 10, 2004, February 4, and March 25, 2005, the Committee
for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled published
notice (69 FR 71777/78, 70 FR 5963, and 15288) of proposed additions to
the Procurement List.
After consideration of the material presented to it concerning
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the products and
services and impact of the additions on the current or most recent
contractors, the Committee has determined that the products and
services listed below are suitable for procurement by the Federal
Government under 41 U.S.C. 46-48c and 41 CFR 51-2.4.
The following comments pertain to Vegetable Oil (Domestic) 10% of
USDA Requirement:
Comments were received from one of the current contractors for this
vegetable oil. The commenter also provided comments on an earlier
version of this proposed addition to the Procurement List, notice of
which appeared in the December 10, 2004 Federal Register (69 FR 71777),
and on an earlier unpublished version of the proposed addition. The
commenter in its most recent comments asked the Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled to consider all of these
previous comments to the extent they remain applicable. The Committee
considered these earlier comments as they were intended, and reduced or
clarified the quantities being proposed for addition to the Procurement
List at the two stages of the addition process to which the earlier
comments applied.
The commenter claimed in its most recent comments that this
proposed addition does not meet the Committee's regulatory requirement
that a Procurement List addition create employment for people with
severe disabilities because the Committee has not demonstrated that
jobs will be created for people who are not currently employed, as
opposed to additional hours for the current work force. However, this
claim does not accurately reflect the Committee's regulatory
requirement, which appears at 41 CFR 51-2.4(a)(1). This regulation
provides that a proposed addition to the Procurement List must
demonstrate a potential to generate employment for people with severe
disabilities. The requirement is stated in this way because until a
nonprofit agency actually produces a product in response to Government
orders, it is impossible to know with certainty how much labor the
production will create, to say nothing of which individuals will
perform the labor. In addition, the Committee only requires a nonprofit
agency to indicate the quantity of direct labor estimated to be
created, not the individuals who will provide it or their current
employment status. The nonprofit agency involved in this proposed
addition has provided that information concerning the amount of labor
that will be created. The nonprofit agency also indicated that this
labor includes both new and current employees.
In both current and earlier comments, the commenter has taken issue
with the Committee's practice of adding a percentage of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s overall requirement for vegetable
oil for domestic programs to the Procurement List. The commenter noted
that the various types and package sizes are provided by different
contractors. As a result, the commenter claimed, the fact that the
designated nonprofit agency will be providing the ten percent of the
overall USDA domestic requirement by providing liquid vegetable oil in
one-gallon bottles will have a larger impact on contractors providing
vegetable oil in this same manner than the percentage would seem to
indicate. Specifically, the commenter claimed that this Procurement
List addition represents about thirteen percent of the requirement for
this oil and package type, and that it is provided by three small
businesses.
The Committee begins its assessment of impact on contractors
affected by potential Procurement List additions by sending a certified
letter to each contractor requesting sales data, and stating that if
the contractor does not reply, the Committee will consider the lack of
a reply as an indication the contractor does not consider the impact of
the potential addition to be severe. For this proposed addition to the
Procurement List, the Committee wrote to several current contractors,
including the three small businesses identified by the commenter. Two
of these businesses responded and provided sales data. This information
showed that the value of the proposed addition represents a very small
percentage of the sales of these two businesses (less than one percent
each). Even when the impact of earlier Procurement List additions on
one of the businesses (the commenter), and that company's long history
as a supplier of the vegetable oil to USDA is considered, as provided
in the Committee's impact assessment regulation, at 41 CFR 51-
2.4(a)(4), the impact on any of the contractors USDA identified to the
Committee did not rise to the level which the Committee considers to
constitute severe adverse impact.
The commenter provided several scenarios under which it claimed
impact on various suppliers could be greater, depending on the types of
liquid oil which the designated nonprofit provided in its one-gallon
bottles, and on possible variations in USDA's contract awards for the
part of the domestic vegetable oil not covered by the Procurement List.
However, the commenter provided no factual support for these
speculations, which involve actions by USDA which are not within the
Committee's ability to predict or control by its addition process.
The commenter also claimed other impacts on its business, including
plant closures, based on earlier comments reacting to the initial
projected addition, which was four times the size of the Procurement
List addition the Committee eventually proposed. The response from the
other small business to the Committee's request for sales data also
based its impact claims on this larger addition plan. The Committee
believes that reduction of the proposed addition to its current level
will prevent any severe impacts from occurring, as indicated in the
above paragraph on impact calculation.
Finally, the commenter claimed that the proposed addition would
harm USDA's domestic feeding programs, as the ``contracting premium''
associated with the Committee's program would limit the amount of food
USDA could provide with its current budget. However, USDA has informed
the Committee that it supports the proposed addition to the Procurement
List of ten percent of its requirement for vegetable oil for domestic
programs.
The following material pertains to all of the items being added to
the Procurement List.
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 any additional reporting,
recordkeeping or
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other compliance requirements for small entities other than the small
organizations that will furnish the product and services to the
Government.
2. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the product 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 product and services proposed for addition
to the Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following product and services are added to the
Procurement List:
Product
Vegetable Oil (Domestic) 10% of USDA Requirement
NSN: 8945-00-NSH-0002--Vegetable Oil (Domestic) 10% of USDA
Requirement
NPA: Advocacy and Resources Corporation, Cookeville, Tennessee
Contracting Activity: USDA, Farm Service Agency, Washington, DC
Services:
Service Type/Location: Custodial Services, Transportation Security
Administration, Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
NPA: ARC--Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Contracting Activity: GSA, PBS--Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Service Type/Location: Custodial Services, Williams Gateway Airport,
6416 Sossamon Road, Mesa, Arizona.
NPA: Goodwill Community Services, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona.
Contracting Activity: Department of Homeland Security, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Service Type/Location: Dormitory Management Services, Department of
Homeland Security, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (Artesia
Facility), 1300 W. Richey , Building 25, Artesia, New Mexico.
NPA: Adelante Development Center, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Contracting Activity: Department of Homeland Security (FLETC),
Artesia, New Mexico.
Service Type/Location: Janitorial/Custodial, Department of Homeland
Security, Customs and Border Protection, 700 Maritime Street,
Oakland, California.
NPA: The Independent Way, Oakland, California.
Contracting Activity: Department of Homeland Security, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Deletions
On March 25, 2005, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are
Blind or Severely Disabled published notice (70 FR 15288) of proposed
deletions to the Procurement List.
After consideration of the relevant matter presented, the Committee
has determined that the services listed below are no longer suitable
for procurement by the Federal Government under 41 U.S.C. 46-48c and 41
CFR 51-2.4.
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 may result in additional reporting, recordkeeping or
other compliance requirements for small entities.
2. The action may result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the 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 services deleted from the Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following services are deleted from the
Procurement List:
Services
Service Type/Location: Janitorial/Custodial, U.S. Army Reserve
Center, New Orleans, 4200 Michaud Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana.
NPA: Goodworks, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana.
Contracting Activity: Department of the Army.
Service Type/Location: Mailroom Operation, New Orleans Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Site, New Orleans, Louisiana.
NPA: Goodworks, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana.
Contracting Activity: DnyMcDermott Petroleum Operation Company--
Department of Energy.
Sheryl D. Kennerly,
Director, Information Management.
[FR Doc. E5-2542 Filed 5-19-05; 8:45 am]
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