[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 183 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 49379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23991]


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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 Capitol Plaza Hotel, 100 State Street, 
Montpelier, Vermont 05602. This will be the committee's first meeting 
of fiscal year 1997 and will primarily address issues concerning the 
manufacturing of VA headstones and markers.
    The meeting will convene at 8:00 a.m. (EST) on October 16, 1996 and 
will adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (EST) October 17, 1996. On October 16, 1996, 
the Advisory Committee will visit granite quarries in Barre, Vermont, 
in the morning and will visit the monument manufacturers in the 
afternoon. The purpose of these site visits is to allow the Advisory 
Committee to view start-to-finish processing of VA's applications for 
headstone and markers and to observe the process from a contractor's 
perspective.
    The following day at 8:00 a.m. the Committee will reconvene to 
discuss old business and to travel to Vermont Veterans Memorial 
Cemetery, the state's only State Veterans Cemetery. 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 10, 1996.
    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., Washington, DC 20420. 
In any such letters, the writers must fully identify themselves and 
state the organization, 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, October 10, 1996. Oral statements will be heard only 
between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. EST, October 17, 1996 at the Capitol 
Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont.

    Dated: September 10, 1996.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Eugene A. Brickhouse,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-23991 Filed 9-18-96; 8:45 am]
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