[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 91 (Thursday, May 10, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23979-23980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-11746]


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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 Tuesday and Wednesday, May 
22-23, 2001, at VA Headquarters, Room 230, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC. The May 22 session will convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn 
at 4 p.m. and the May 23 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

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other serious incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
    On the morning of May 22, the Committee will hold a joint meeting 
with the Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation to discuss 
mutual issues and concerns. Both Committees will also receive a 
briefing on the current status of the rehabilitation bed issue by the 
Chief Consultant of the Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare Group. At 
the conclusion of the joint meeting, the Advisory Committee on 
Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs will receive briefings by 
the National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs 
regarding the status of their activities over the last six months. In 
the afternoon, a briefing concerning the current status of VA's 
Capacity Report will be presented by the newly appointed Clinical 
Coordinator or her designee. On the morning of May 23, the Committee 
will continue to receive briefings by the National Program Directors of 
the special disability programs, i.e., spinal cord injury, blind 
rehabilitation, audiology and speech pathology, and prosthetics.
    The meeting is open to the public. For those wishing to attend, 
please contact Ms. Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health Administration 
(113), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 273-8512, prior to the meeting.

    Dated: May 2, 2001.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Ventris C. Gibson,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-11746 Filed 5-9-01; 8:45 am]
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