[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 52474]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22048]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities 
Programs, 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, September 18-19, 2000, at VA Headquarters, Room 430, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The September 18 session will 
convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the September 19 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 September 18, the Committee will receive 
briefings by the National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities 
Programs regarding the status of their activities over the last three 
months. In the afternoon, a briefing concerning functional outcomes for 
Blind Rehabilitation will be presented. On the morning of September 19, 
the Committee will receive a briefing by a Department of Defense 
representative on the referral process of traumatic brain-injured 
patients to VA and the reimbursement rate impact. The Committee will 
have the opportunity to ask questions following this briefing.
    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, DC 20420, prior to September 15, 2000.

    Dated: August 22, 2000.
Marvin Eason,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-22048 Filed 8-28-00; 8:45 am]
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