20 U.S.C. § 107: Operation of vending facilities

For the purposes of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in striving to make themselves self-supporting, blind persons licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall be authorized to operate vending facilities on any Federal property. the priority under this subsection is given to such licensed blind persons (including assignment of vending machine income pursuant to section 107d–3 of this title to achieve and protect such priority), and wherever feasible, one or more vending facilities are established on all Federal property to the extent that any such facility or facilities would not adversely affect the interests of the United States. after review of the operation of the blind vending stand program authorized under the Randolph-Sheppard Act of June 20, 1936 [this chapter], that the program has not developed, and has not been sustained, in the manner and spirit in which the Congress intended at the time of its enactment, and that, in fact, the growth of the program has been inhibited by a number of external forces; that the potential exists for doubling the number of blind operators on Federal and other property under the Randolph-Sheppard program within the next five years, provided the obstacles to growth are removed, that legislative and administrative means exist to remove such obstacles, and that Congress should adopt legislation to that end; and establish uniformity of treatment of blind vendors by all Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, establish guidelines for the operation of the program by State licensing agencies, require coordination among the several entities with responsibility for the program, establish a priority for vending facilities operated by blind vendors on Federal property, establish administrative and judicial procedures under which fair treatment of blind vendors, State licensing agencies, and the Federal Government is assured, require stronger administration and oversight functions in the Federal office carrying out the program, and accomplish other legislative and administrative objectives which will permit the Randolph-Sheppard program to flourish.”