[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 63292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30090]


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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 Tuesday, 
December 11, 2001, at VA Headquarters, Room 742, 810 Vermont Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC. The meeting will convene at 8 a.m. and adjourn at 
4 p.m. 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.
    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 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 the meeting.

    Dated: November 29, 2001.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-30090 Filed 12-4-01; 8:45 am]
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