[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 15206]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7707]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials, Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice that a meeting
of the Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials, authorized by 38
U.S.C. 2401, will be held Tuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9, 1999,
at the Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters, Room 230, 810
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. This will be the committee's
second meeting of Fiscal Year 1999.
The purpose of the committee is to review the administration of
VA's cemeteries and burial benefits program. The meeting will convene
on Tuesday, June 8, at 8:15 a.m. (EDT) and adjourn at 5:30 p.m. (EDT).
On Wednesday, June 9, the meeting will reconvene at 8:15 a.m. (EDT) and
adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (EDT).
On Tuesday, June 8, the Committee will be updated on National
Cemetery Administration (NCA) issues. Members will be briefed on
operations at Quantico National Cemetery, and the NCA Operations
Support Center, which is the location of the Systems Integration Center
and the Centralized Contracting Division. Additionally, members will
tour the cemetery and the NCA Operations Support Center.
On Wednesday, June 9, the Committee will reconvene for updates and
reports on military honors, cemetery focus groups, the Visitor Comment
Card survey, legislation on doubly marked graves and eligibility,
cremation gardens and construction and dedications of new cemeteries.
The meeting will be open to the public. Individuals wishing to
attend the meeting should contact Ms. Paige Lowther, National Cemetery
Administration, [phone (202) 273-5164] no later than 12 noon (EDT), May
31, 1999.
Any interested person may attend, appear before, or file a
statement with the Committee. Individuals wishing to appear before the
Committee should indicate this in a letter to the Acting Under
Secretary for Memorial Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (40),
at 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. 20420. In any such letters,
the writers must fully identify themselves and state the organization,
association or person(s) they represent. In addition, to the extent
practicable, letters should indicate the subject matter to be
discussed. Oral presentations should be limited to 10 minutes in
duration. Individuals wishing to file written statements to be
submitted to the Committee must also mail, or otherwise deliver, them
to the Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, National Cemetery
Administration.
Letters and written statements as discussed above must be mailed or
delivered in time to reach the Acting Under Secretary for Memorial
Affairs, National Cemetery Administration, by 12 noon (EDT), May 31,
1999. Oral statements will be heard between 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
(EDT), June 9, 1999, at Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters,
Room 230, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.
Dated: March 23, 1999.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-7707 Filed 3-29-99; 8:45 am]
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