[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1817]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Persian Gulf Expert Scientific Committee; Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in accordance with Pub. L.
92-463, gives notice that a meeting of the VA Persian Gulf Expert
Scientific Committee will be held on:
Monday, February 3, 1997, at 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tuesday, February 4, 1997, at 8:30 a.m.-noon
The location of the meeting will be 810 Vermont Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC, Room 230.
The Committee's objectives are to advise the Under Secretary for
Health about medical findings affecting Persian Gulf era veterans.
At this meeting the Committee will review all aspects of patient
care and medical diagnoses and will provide professional consultation
as needed. The Committee may advise on other areas involving research
and development, veterans benefits and/or training aspects for patients
and staff.
All portions of the meeting will be open to the public except from
4 p.m. until 5 p.m. on February 3 and from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on
February 4, 1997. During these executive sessions, discussions and
recommendations will deal with medical records of specific patients and
individually identifiable patient medical histories. The disclosure of
this information would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy. Closure of this portion of the meeting is in
accordance with subsection 10(d) of Pub. L. 92-463, as amended by Pub.
L. 94-409, and as cited in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
The agenda for February 3 will begin with an update on recent
events, followed by responses from Committee members. The first day's
agenda will also cover reports on activities of the Persian Gulf
Registry Program, a report on the Presidential Advisory Committee
Report, Stress Issues Among Persian Gulf veterans and Toxicological
Considerations in the Persian Gulf.
On February 4 the Committee will hear reports on the Persian Gulf
Study in Iowa as well as the report of a study on Exposures and
Symptomatology Among Select Persian Gulf Veterans.
Additional information concerning these meetings may be obtained
from the Executive Secretary, Office of Public Health & Environmental
Hazards, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.
Dated: January 16, 1997.
By direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-1817 Filed 1-24-97; 8:45 am]
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