[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 188 (Monday, September 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 50983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25772]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Persian Gulf Expert Scientific Committee; Notice of Meeting

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

Monday, November 17, 1997, at :30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 18, 1997, at 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

    The location of the meeting will be 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C., 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 
4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on November 17 and from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 
p.m. on November 18, 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 November 17 will begin with presentations on 
Depleted Uranium and a Follow-up on ill Persian Gulf Veterans. The 
first days' agenda will also cover a presentation on Chemical/
Biological Agents.
    On November 18 the Committee will hear updates on the Chronic 
Fatigue Syndrome and Leishmania.
    Additional information concerning these meetings may be obtained 
from the Executive Secretary, Office of Public Health & Environmental 
Hazards, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20420.

    Dated: September 23, 1997.

    By direction of the Secretary-Designate:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-25772 Filed 9-26-97; 8:45 am]
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