[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 20555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11274]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Persian Gulf Expert Scientific Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in accordance with P.L. 
92-463, gives notice that a meeting of the VA Persian Gulf Expert 
Scientific Committee will be held on:

Monday, June 3, 1996, at 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 4, 1996, at 9:00 a.m.-12:01 p.m.

    The location of the meeting will be 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, D.C., Room 230.
    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 
4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on June 3 and from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon 
on June 4, 1996. 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 is clearly an unwarranted invasion of personal 
privacy. Closure of this portion of the meeting is in accordance with 
subsection 10(d) of P.L. 92-463, as amended by P.L. 94-409, and as 
cited in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
    The agenda for June 3 will begin with an update on recent events, 
followed by responses from Committee members. The first day's agenda 
will also cover reports on activities of the Persian Gulf Spouses and 
Children Exam and the Directions for Research and Development in 
Veterans Affairs, as well as feedback from the Presidential Advisory 
Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Interim Report.
    On June 4 the Committee will hear updates from the Persian Gulf 
Veterans' Illnesses Investigative Team as well as activities from 
England's Persian Gulf Studies.
    Additional information concerning these meetings may be obtained 
from the Executive Secretary, Office of Public Health & Environmental 
Hazards, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20420.

    Dated: April 22, 1996.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-11274 Filed 5-6-95; 8:45 am]
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