[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 5833]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2644]
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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 Monday and Tuesday, March
16-17, 1998, at VA Headquarters, Room 930, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. The March 16 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and
adjourn at 4 p.m. and the March 17 session will convene at 8:00 a.m.
and adjourn at 12:00 noon. The meeting's agenda will include:
officially welcoming two new members to the Advisory Committee, involve
briefings by the National Program Directors of the Special Disabilities
Programs regarding the status of their activities over the last six
months, receive a briefing of the Veterans Equitable Resource
Allocation (VERA) model, and a status report on implementation of the
Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 as it pertains to
the legislative requirement to maintain capacity to meet specialized
needs of disabled veterans. The purpose of the Advisory Committee on
Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs is to advise the
Department on its prosthetic 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 meeting is open to the public to the capacity of the room. For
those wishing to attend, contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health
Administration (113), phone (202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20420, prior to
March 9, 1998.
Dated: January 28, 1998.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-2644 Filed 2-3-98; 8:45 am]
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