[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 179 (Friday, September 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 48528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23469]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 that the annual meeting of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
Voluntary Service National Advisory Committee will be held at the Hyatt 
Regency Hotel, Two Tampa Center, Tampa, Florida, October 23 through 26, 
1996. The meeting begins with participant registration at 8 a.m. on 
October 23 and concludes at 3 p.m. on October 26. The meeting is open 
to the public.
    The committee, comprised of sixty national voluntary organizations, 
advises the Under Secretary for Health and other members of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office staff on how to 
coordinate and promote volunteer activities within VA facilities. 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 organizations, representatives and the 
Voluntary Service Central Office and field staff; to provide 
educational opportunities geared towards improving volunteer programs 
with special emphasis on methods to recruit, retain, motivate and 
recognize volunteers; and to approve committee recom- mendations.
    On October 23, the National Executive Committee will meet from 8:00 
a.m. until 12 noon. From 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. participants will 
attend a Health Fair. On the morning of October 24, there will be a 
Plenary Session with Charlie Plumb as guest speaker. In the afternoon 
participants will choose between two educational workshops. On October 
25, a business session will be held from 8:00 a.m. until 10:15 a.m. and 
a plenary session will be held from 10:30 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. From 
12:30 until 2:30 p.m. participants will attend a luncheon. On the 
morning of October 26, the two educational workshops will repeat. The 
closing business session will be held from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
    For further information, contact the Director, Voluntary Service 
Office (162), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC, 20420, (202) 273-8952.

    Dated: September 5, 1996.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Eugene A. Brickhouse,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-23469 Filed 9-12-96; 8:45 am]
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