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B-174787 1 (1972-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabldm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~S~tty~-~Not to bit rtea ner A c q n t ; f g cg% o o x c e p t o a n i e b a ' e c o r a l LAj 'the O'iics of Congre a o l t~ns SRELEASED COMPTROLLER GENE IT D.C 20S B 1 1972 B-174787 / ( Dear Senator Spong: §7 Reference is made to your request of December 3, 1971, that the General Accounting Office 'investigate the impact of the Government's purchase of proddugcts made by handicapped and f blind persons on th-e Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Inc. Under the Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46), enacted June 25, 1938, the Committee on Purchases of Blind-Made Prod- ucts was created toprovide em~ployent opportunities for the blind by requiring that Federal agencies purchase brooms, mops, and other commodities manufactured in nonprofit work- shops for the blind. The Committee on Purchases of Blind- Made Products, comprising six representatives of Federal agencies and a private citizen, was made responsible for se- lecting the commodities included under the program and for establishing prices for the commodities. About 80 workshops in 36 States participate in the pro- gram and employ about 7,600 severely handicapped persons, about 4,600 of whom are blind. The workshops produce about 435 items, such as mops, brooms, pillowcases, ball-point pens, mattresses, and dish towels, which are purchased by the Government. Between 40 and 50 percent of the products made by the workshops are sold to the Government. During fiscal year 1971 Government purchases from the workshops amounted to about $12 million. The Wagner-O'Day Act was amended, effective August 1, 1971, to (1) include services, as well as commodities, under the program, (2) extend to severely handicapped persons the special priority in the selling of commodities and services to the Government, (3) establish a new committee, the Commit- teefo.r._Purchases of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped, comprising 11 representatives of XFederal agences a§-and three private citizens, to administer the program, and (4) require that notices of intent to add or remove commodities or services to those included in the pro- gram be published in the Federal Register to provide inter- ested parties with the opportunity to present their views.

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