[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 7302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4308]



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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 Wednesday and Thursday, 
March 27-28, 1996, at Techworld Plaza, 801 I Street, NW., Washington, 
DC. The meeting will be held in Room 1105. The March 27 session will 
convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the March 28 session will 
convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 12 noon. Both days will involve 
briefings by the National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities 
Programs regarding the status of their acitivities over the last six 
months. Other topics will be: centralized funding, waiting time in the 
Blind Rehabilitation Program and the impact of the Veterans Health 
Administration's reorganization on the delivery of services for these 
special-disabilities programs.
    The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to advise the Department 
on its prosthetics 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 Designated Federal Official for the Committee is Timothy 
Gerrity, Ph.D., Deputy Director for Medical Research Service. His phone 
number is (202) 565-4004.

    Dated: February 19, 1996.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-4308 Filed 2-26-96; 8:45 am]
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