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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 

Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee, Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in accordance with Pub. L. 
92-463, gives notice that the annual meeting of the VA Voluntary 
Service (VAVS) National Advisory Committee will be held on:

Wednesday, October 19, 1994, through Saturday, October 22, 1994.

    The meeting begins with participant registration at 8 a.m. on 
October 19, 1994, and concludes at 11:30 a.m. on October 22, 1994. The 
location of the meeting will be the Pier 66 Hotel, 2301 S.E. 17th 
Street Causeway, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
    The committee's objectives are to advise the Under Secretary for 
Health on how to coordinate and promote volunteer activities in VA 
health care facilities. The committee is comprised of the 
representatives of sixty national volunteer organizations. The 
committee member organizations provided over 8.9 million hours of VAVS 
volunteer service in fiscal year 1993.
    The primary purposes of this meeting are: to provide for committee 
review of volunteer policies and procedures; to accommodate full and 
open communications between the volunteer organizations, 
representatives and the Voluntary service staff; to conduct seminars 
and workshops designed to share information geared towards improving 
volunteer programs with special emphasis on methods to recruit, retain, 
motivate and recognize volunteers; and to approve committee 
recommendations.
    All portions of the meeting will be open to the public. Additional 
information concerning this meeting may be obtained from the Director, 
Voluntary Service Office (167), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC, 20420.

    Dated: September 12, 1994.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-23518 Filed 9-22-94; 8:45 am]
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