[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 176 (Thursday, September 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47880-47881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24054]


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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 Long Island National Cemetery, 2040 
Wellwood Avenue, Farmingdale, NY, 11735-1211 and Calverton National 
Cemetery, 210 Princeton Boulevard, Calverton, NY, 11933. This will be 
the committee's first meeting of fiscal year 1998. The purpose of the 
committee is to review the administration of VA's cemeteries and burial 
benefits program. On October 9,

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1997, the meeting will convene at 8 a.m. (EST) and will adjourn at 4:30 
p.m. (EST). On October 10, 1997, the meeting will convene at 8 a.m. 
(EST) and will adjourn at 12 noon (EST).
    On October 9, the committee meeting will be held at Long Island 
National Cemetery. There will be a business session, Field Operations 
and Operations Support briefings with discussion of issues, and a tour 
of Long Island National Cemetery.
    On October 10, the committee meeting will be held at Calverton 
National Cemetery. The committee will be briefed on Calverton National 
Cemetery operations, the administrative procedures and field operations 
involved with interments, and view the site for the proposed new 
columbarium.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Those wishing to attend 
should contact Ms. Louise Ware, Special Assistant to the Director, 
National Cemetery System, [phone (202) 273-7577] no later than 12 noon 
(EST), October 1, 1997.
    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 delivery, 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 1, 1997. Oral statements will be heard between 
11:30 a.m. and 12 noon (EST), October 10 at Calverton National 
Cemetery, Long Island, NY.

    Dated: August 29, 1997.

    By Direction of the Secretary-Designate.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-24054 Filed 9-10-97; 8:45 am]
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