[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 8311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4418]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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

    The Department of Veterans 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 Tuesday and Wednesday, March 
11-12, 1997, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, 
D.C. The meeting on March 11 will be held in Room 630 and the meeting 
on March 12 will be held in the Omar Bradley Conference Room, 10th 
Floor. The March 11 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 4 
p.m. and the March 12 session will convene at 9:00 a.m. and adjourn at 
12:00 noon. The meeting on March 11 will involve briefings by the 
National Program Directors of the Special-disabilities Programs 
regarding the status of their activities over the last six months, a 
status report on implementation of the Veterans' Health Care 
Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 as it pertains to the Benefits Package 
and the legislative requirement to maintain capacity to meet 
specialized needs of disabled veterans. The meeting on March 12 will 
consist of a joint meeting of the Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and 
special-Disabilities Programs and the Veterans Advisory Committee on 
Rehabilitation. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss program 
issues of mutual interest and concern.
    The purpose of the Advisory committee on Prosthetics and Special-
disabilities Program 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 
March 7, 1997.

    Dated: February 13, 1997.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-4418 Filed 2-21-97; 8:45 am]
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