96-4308. Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs; Notice of Meeting  

  • [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 7302]
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    DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    
    Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities 
    Programs; Notice of Meeting
    
        The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public 
    Law 92-463 that a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and 
    Special-Disabilities Programs will be held Wednesday and Thursday, 
    March 27-28, 1996, at Techworld Plaza, 801 I Street, NW., Washington, 
    DC. The meeting will be held in Room 1105. The March 27 session will 
    convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the March 28 session will 
    convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 12 noon. Both days will involve 
    briefings by the National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities 
    Programs regarding the status of their acitivities over the last six 
    months. Other topics will be: centralized funding, waiting time in the 
    Blind Rehabilitation Program and the impact of the Veterans Health 
    Administration's reorganization on the delivery of services for these 
    special-disabilities programs.
        The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to advise the Department 
    on its prosthetics programs designed to provide state-of-the-art 
    prosthetics and the associated rehabilitation research, development, 
    and evaluation of such technology. The Advisory Committee also advises 
    the Department on special disability programs which are defined as any 
    program administered by the Secretary to serve veterans with spinal 
    cord injury, blindness or vision impairment, loss of or loss of use of 
    extremities, deafness or hearing impairment, or other serious 
    incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
        The Designated Federal Official for the Committee is Timothy 
    Gerrity, Ph.D., Deputy Director for Medical Research Service. His phone 
    number is (202) 565-4004.
    
        Dated: February 19, 1996.
    
        By Direction of the Secretary.
    Heyward Bannister,
    Committee Management Officer.
    [FR Doc. 96-4308 Filed 2-26-96; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
02/27/1996
Department:
Veterans Affairs Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
96-4308
Pages:
7302-7302 (1 pages)
PDF File:
96-4308.pdf