[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 178 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48342-48343]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24308]
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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,
September 22-23, 1997, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W.,
Washington,
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D.C. The meeting on September 22 will be held in Room 530 and the
meeting on September 23 will be held in Room 730. The September 22
session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the
September 23 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 12:00
noon. The meeting's agenda will include: officially welcoming three new
members to the Advisory Committee, briefings by the National Program
Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs regarding the status of
their activities over the last six months 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 Advisory Committee
will also receive the opportunity to meet the new VA Chief Research and
Development Officer. The meeting on September 23 will consist of a
continuation of briefings by the National Program Directors of the
Special-Disabilities Programs.
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
September 18, 1997.
Dated: September 8, 1997.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-24308 Filed 9-12-97; 8:45 am]
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