[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1817]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Persian Gulf Expert Scientific Committee; Meeting

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

Monday, February 3, 1997, at 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tuesday, February 4, 1997, at 8:30 a.m.-noon

    The location of the meeting will be 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC, 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 p.m. until 5 p.m. on February 3 and from 11 a.m. to 12 noon on 
February 4, 1997. 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 would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of 
personal privacy. Closure of this portion of the meeting is in 
accordance with subsection 10(d) of Pub. L. 92-463, as amended by Pub. 
L. 94-409, and as cited in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
    The agenda for February 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 
Registry Program, a report on the Presidential Advisory Committee 
Report, Stress Issues Among Persian Gulf veterans and Toxicological 
Considerations in the Persian Gulf.
    On February 4 the Committee will hear reports on the Persian Gulf 
Study in Iowa as well as the report of a study on Exposures and 
Symptomatology Among Select Persian Gulf Veterans.
    Additional information concerning these meetings may be obtained 
from the Executive Secretary, Office of Public Health & Environmental 
Hazards, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.

    Dated: January 16, 1997.

    By direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-1817 Filed 1-24-97; 8:45 am]
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