Amendments to the Wagner-O'Day Act: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 11143 ...

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Page 105 - Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped...
Page 126 - Committee") to be composed of a private citizen conversant with the problems incident to the employment of the blind and a representative of each of the following Government Departments: The Navy Department, the War Department, the Treasury Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of the Interior.
Page 76 - Apprentices, student-learners, and workers whose earning capacity is impaired by age, physical, or mental deficiency or injury may be employed at wages lower than the minimum wages otherwise required by section...
Page 13 - Our budget is reviewed in detail each year by the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Page 5 - Its mission is best described by its overriding objective, to increase the employment opportunities for the, blind and other severely handicapped individuals and, whenever possible, to prepare them to engage in normal competitive employment.
Page 155 - ... the Government intends to procure any commodity or service on the procurement list, that entity shall, in accordance with rules and regulations of the Committee, procure such commodity or service, at the price established by the Committee, from a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or such an agency for other severely handicapped if the commodity or service is available within the period required by that Government entity; except that this section shall not apply with respect to the procurement...
Page 121 - Purchase of Products and Services for the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped to enable the committee to employ qualified consultants from business and industry.
Page 155 - If any entity of the Government intends to procure any commodity or service on the procurement list, that entity shall, in accordance with rules and regulations of the Committee, procure such commodity or service, at the price established by the Committee, from a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or such an agency for other severely handicapped if the commodity or service is available -within the period required by that Government entity; except that this section shall not apply with respect...
Page 30 - The Committee may study (on its own or in cooperation with other public or nonprofit private agencies) (1) problems related to the employment of the blind and of other severely handicapped individuals...
Page 174 - IARF received a grant from the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and conducted a series of 10 regional seminars on Wagner-O'Day.

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