[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 183 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 49379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23991]
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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 at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, 100 State Street,
Montpelier, Vermont 05602. This will be the committee's first meeting
of fiscal year 1997 and will primarily address issues concerning the
manufacturing of VA headstones and markers.
The meeting will convene at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on October 16, 1996 and
will adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (EST) October 17, 1996. On October 16, 1996,
the Advisory Committee will visit granite quarries in Barre, Vermont,
in the morning and will visit the monument manufacturers in the
afternoon. The purpose of these site visits is to allow the Advisory
Committee to view start-to-finish processing of VA's applications for
headstone and markers and to observe the process from a contractor's
perspective.
The following day at 8:00 a.m. the Committee will reconvene to
discuss old business and to travel to Vermont Veterans Memorial
Cemetery, the state's only State Veterans Cemetery. The meeting will
adjourn at 5:00 p.m.
The meeting will be open to the public. Those wishing to attend
should contact Ms. Dina Wood, Special Assistant to the Director,
National Cemetery System [phone (202) 273-5235] not later than 12 noon,
EST, October 10, 1996.
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 Director, National
Cemetery System (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 they represent. Also, to
the extent practicable, letters should indicate the subject matter they
want to discuss. Oral presentations should be limited to 10 minutes in
duration. Those wishing to file written statements to be submitted to
the Committee must also mail, or otherwise deliver, them to the
Director, National Cemetery System.
Letters and written statements as discussed above must be mailed or
delivered in time to reach the Director, National Cemetery System, by
12 noon EST, October 10, 1996. Oral statements will be heard only
between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. EST, October 17, 1996 at the Capitol
Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont.
Dated: September 10, 1996.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Eugene A. Brickhouse,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-23991 Filed 9-18-96; 8:45 am]
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