[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 43 (Friday, March 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10738-10739]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5470]


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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 (Committee) will be held Monday and 
Tuesday, April 26-27, 1999, at VA Headquarters, Room 930, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The April 26 session will convene at 8 a.m. 
and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the April 27 session will convene at 8 a.m. 
and adjourn at 12 noon. The purpose of the Committee 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 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.
    On the morning of April 26, the Committee will receive a status 
report concerning the development of job performance standards for 
those individuals responsible for maintaining capacity in programs for 
specialized treatment and rehabilitative needs of disabled veterans. 
The Committee will also receive briefings by the National Program 
Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs regarding the status of 
their activities over the last seven months. On the morning of April

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27, the Committee will receive a status report concerning 
implementation of an integrated prosthetics organization within each 
Veterans Integrated Service Network. Briefings by the National Program 
Directors will continue and the meeting will finish with a discussion 
on its recommendations with input from VHA senior management (Chief 
Network Officer).
    The meeting is open to the public. For those wishing to attend, 
please contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health Administration (113), 
phone (202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20420, prior to April 21, 1999.

    Dated: February 23, 1999.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-5470 Filed 3-4-99; 8:45 am]
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