[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 82 (Monday, April 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 21018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10420]


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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 May 15-16, 2002, at VA 
Headquarters, Room 230, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The 
meeting will convene at 8 a.m. on both days and adjourn at 4 p.m. on 
May 15 and 12 noon on May 16. The meeting is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary on VA's 
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 Secretary on special 
disability programs which are defined as any program administered by 
the Department 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 morning of May 15, the Committee will have briefings by the 
Acting Chief Consultant, VHA Employee Education Service or designee, 
and the Director, Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services 
Program or designee. In the afternoon, the Committee will be briefed by 
each of the four National program Directors of VA's special disability 
programs, i.e. spinal cord injury, blind rehabilitation, prosthetics, 
audiology and speech pathology. On the morning of May 16, the Committee 
will be briefed by the Acting Chief Consultant, Rehabilitation 
Strategic Healthcare Group and consider a report on Emergency 
Preparedness.
    No time will be allocated for receiving oral presentations from the 
public. However, members of the public may direct questions or submit 
prepared statements for review by the Committee in advance of the 
meeting, in writing only, to Ms. Cynthia Wade, Program Analyst, at 
Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Patient 
Care Services, Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare Group (117), 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Any member of the public 
wishing to attend the meeting should contact Ms. Wade, at (202) 273-
8485.

    Dated: April 22, 2002.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-10420 Filed 4-26-02; 8:45 am]
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