[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 183 (Thursday, September 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48524-48525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-23348]


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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, September 24-25, 2001, at VA Headquarters, Room 630, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The September 24 session will 
convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 4 p.m. and the September 25 session 
will convene at 8

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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 both days, 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 four months and present any critical 
issues requiring the Committee's consideration.
    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 21, 2001.

    Dated: September 13, 2001.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-23348 Filed 9-19-01; 8:45 am]
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