The purpose of the New Hampshire Business Enterprise Program (BEP) is to provide blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarge the economic opportunities for the blind, and stimulate the blind to strive to make them self-supporting. The department, through the BEP of the office of services for blind and visually impaired, (SBVI) shall be the state licensing agency (SLA) for legally blind individuals who operate food and vending service facilities on federal, state, and other properties.
N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 1019.01