[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 4, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 5833]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2644]


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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, March 
16-17, 1998, at VA Headquarters, Room 930, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. The March 16 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and 
adjourn at 4 p.m. and the March 17 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. 
and adjourn at 12:00 noon. The meeting's agenda will include: 
officially welcoming two new members to the Advisory Committee, involve 
briefings by the National Program Directors of the Special Disabilities 
Programs regarding the status of their activities over the last six 
months, receive a briefing of the Veterans Equitable Resource 
Allocation (VERA) model, 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 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 
March 9, 1998.

    Dated: January 28, 1998.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-2644 Filed 2-3-98; 8:45 am]
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