[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 178 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48342-48343]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24308]


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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 Monday and Tuesday, 
September 22-23, 1997, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., 
Washington,

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D.C. The meeting on September 22 will be held in Room 530 and the 
meeting on September 23 will be held in Room 730. The September 22 
session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the 
September 23 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 
noon. The meeting's agenda will include: officially welcoming three new 
members to the Advisory Committee, briefings by the National Program 
Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs regarding the status of 
their activities over the last six months and a status report on 
implementation of the Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 
1996 as it pertains to the legislative requirement to maintain capacity 
to meet specialized needs of disabled veterans. The Advisory Committee 
will also receive the opportunity to meet the new VA Chief Research and 
Development Officer. The meeting on September 23 will consist of a 
continuation of briefings by the National Program Directors of the 
Special-Disabilities Programs.
    The purpose of the Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-
Disabilities Programs 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 
September 18, 1997.

    Dated: September 8, 1997.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-24308 Filed 9-12-97; 8:45 am]
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