[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 77 (Thursday, April 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 21238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9858]


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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, May 8-9, 2000, at VA Headquarters, Room 930, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. The May 8 session will convene at 8:00 
a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the May 9 session will convene at 8:00 
a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 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 May 8, the Committee will receive briefings by 
the National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs 
regarding the status of their activities over the last seven months. In 
the afternoon, a GAO representative will give a briefing on the GAO 
Draft Report regarding VA Health Care: Better Data and Accountability 
Needed For Care for Disabled Veterans. On the morning of May 9, the 
Committee will review the final draft 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 Committee will have the opportunity to 
ask questions and provide input to the final draft report.
    The meeting is open to the public. For those wishing to attend, 
contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health Administration (113), phone 
(202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, 
Washington, D.C. 20420, prior to May 5, 2000.

    Dated: April 5, 2000.
Marvin Eason,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-9858 Filed 4-19-00; 8:45 am]
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