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

(a) Authorization. The goal of this section is to give blind people real jobs, more economic opportunity, and a reason to work toward supporting themselves. To do that, blind people who are licensed under this chapter are allowed to run vending facilities on any federal property. (b) Preferences; regulations; justification for limits. When the government decides who can run a vending facility on federal property, it must give priority to blind people licensed by a state agency under this chapter. The Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, must talk with the head of the General Services Administration and other federal agencies that control federal property, and then write rules that make sure: (1) licensed blind people actually get that priority — including by assigning them vending-machine income under section 107d–3 to protect the priority, and (2) wherever it's practical, at least one vending facility is set up on every piece of federal property, as long as doing so wouldn't hurt the government's interests. If federal officials want to limit where or how a vending facility operates because it would hurt the government's interests, they must fully justify that limit in writing to the Secretary. The Secretary decides whether the justification is good enough, and that decision binds every federal department, agency, or instrumentality affected by it. The Secretary must publish the determination, along with the supporting documents, in the Federal Register.