[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 203 (Friday, October 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 54284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-26031]



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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 Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, Room 530, NW, Washington, DC 20420. This will be the 
committee's first meeting of fiscal year 1996 and will address the 
historic preservation needs of the National Cemetery System.
    The meeting will convene at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on November 8, 1995 and 
will adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (EST) November 9, 1995. On November 8 there 
will be a Gettysburg National Historic Battlefield site visit returning 
to VACO at 5:00 p.m. The purpose of this site visit is to conduct an 
historic preservation workshop, using the location to exemplify various 
preservation need of federally-owned historic lands such as national 
cemeteries and battlefields.
    The following day at 9:00 a.m. the Committee will reconvene to 
discuss ongoing historic preservation projects within VA's National 
Cemetery System. The second day's agenda will also consist of a 
planning meeting to identify topics and objectives for the coming year. 
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 27, 1995.
    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., 20420. In any such 
letters, the writers must fully identify themselves and state the 
organization or 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, November 1, 1995. Oral statements will be heard only 
between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. est, November 9, 1995.

    Dated: October 10, 1995.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-26031 Filed 10-19-95; 8:45 am]
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