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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

Persian Gulf Expert Scientific Committee; Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in accordance with Public 
Law 92-463, gives notice that meetings of the VA Persian Gulf Expert 
Scientific Committee will be held on:

Tuesday, February 22, 1994, at 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wednesday, February 23, 1994, at 9 a.m.-12:01 p.m.

    The location of the meeting will be 811 Vermont Avenue, NW.; 
Washington, DC; room 819, the Kenneth E. Eaton Board Room.
    The Committee's objectives are to advise the Under Secretary for 
Health, about medical findings affecting Persian Gulf era veterans.
    At this meeting the Committee will review all aspects of patient 
care and medical diagnoses and will provide professional consultation 
as needed. The Committee may advise on other areas involving research 
and development, veterans benefits and/or training aspects for patients 
and staff.
    All portions of the meeting will be open to the public except from 
4 p.m. until 5 p.m. on February 22, 1994, and 11 a.m. until 12:01 p.m. 
on February 23, 1994. During these executive sessions discussions and 
recommendations will deal with medical records of specific patients and 
individually identifiable patient medical histories. The disclosure of 
this information would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of 
personal privacy. Closure of these portions of the meetings is in 
accordance with subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92-463, as amended by 
Public Law 94-409, and as cited in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
    Additional information concerning these meetings may be obtained 
from the Chairperson, Office of Environmental Medicine and Public 
Health, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.

    Dated: January 24, 1994.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-2112 Filed 1-31-94; 8:45 am]
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