[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-258]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee on Women Veterans; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Advisory Committee on 
Women Veterans will meet January 21-23, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
each day. The meeting will be held at the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 230, Washington, DC. The meeting 
is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs regarding the needs of women veterans with respect to 
healthcare, rehabilitation, compensation, outreach, and other programs 
and activities administered by the VA designed to meet such needs. The 
Committee will make recommendations to the Secretary regarding such 
programs and activities.
    On January 21, the agenda topics for this meeting will include 
briefings and updates on the Women Veterans Health Program, the 
National Survey of Veterans, Board of Veterans Appeals issues, 
legislative issues affecting women veterans, community-based 
outpatients clinics, and the National Women Veterans Study. On January 
22, the Committee will be briefed on Committee requirements, 
compensation and pension benefits, VA-funded research on women 
veterans, the status of the VA Homeless Program and related issues that 
the Committee members may choose to introduce. On January 23, 
discussions will include briefings regarding the VA Domiciliary 
Programs and the 8 Comprehensive Women Veterans Health Centers. The 
Committee is tentatively scheduled for a briefing on Capitol Hill and 
from the Department of Labor, Veterans Employment and Training Service.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Ms. 
Maryanne Carson, at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for 
Women Veterans (00W), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. 
Ms. Carson may be contacted either by phone at (202) 273-6193, fax at 
(202) 273-7093 or e-mail at [email protected]. Interested persons may 
attend, appear before, or file statements with the Committee. 
Statements, if in written form, may be filed before the meeting, or 
within 10 days after the meeting.

    Dated: December 23, 2002.
    By Direction of the Secretary.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-258 Filed 1-6-03; 8:45 am]
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