96-4308. Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs; Notice of Meeting
[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
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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
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- 7302-7302 (1 pages)
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