<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">AbilityOne NPRM:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On October 7, the AbilityOne Commission held a virtual public meeting. At that meeting they discussed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would be published in the Federal Register on October 12. The NPRM was published and is twenty-seven pages long and is entitled “</span><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/12/2021-22118/prohibition-on-the-payment-of-subminimum-wages-under-14c-certificates-as-a-qualification-for"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: blue;">Prohibition on the Payment of Subminimum Wages Under 14(c) Certificates as a Qualification for Participation as a Nonprofit Agency Under the Javits Wagner O'Day Program</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.†As the title indicates, the proposed rule phases out subminimum wages on all AbilityOne contracts. We are working on our comments and hope to officially submit them and then publish them on our website within the next two weeks. We will then have additional information about how we can all bolster those comments.</span></p>—<br><div dir="ltr">Denise Valkema<div>(305)972-8529<br><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>