[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 174 (Friday, September 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 47239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22747]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities 
Programs; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veteran 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 Monday and Tuesday, 
September 16-17, 1996, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. The meeting will be held in Room 730. The September 16 
session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the 
September 17 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 
noon. Both days will involve briefings by the National Program 
Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs regarding the status of 
their activities over the last six months, pending change in 
eligibility reform, and the continued 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 prosthetic 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 meeting is open to the public to the capacity of the room. For 
those wishing to attend, contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health 
Administration (113), phone (202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans 
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20420, prior to 
September 11, 1996.

    Dated: August 29, 1996.
Eugene A. Brickhouse,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-22747 Filed 9-5-96; 8:45 am]
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