[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 4274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1835]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


President's Task Force To Improve Health Care Delivery for Our 
Nation's Veterans; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 that a meeting of the President's Task Force to Improve 
Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans is scheduled for 
Wednesday, February 12, 2003, beginning at 9 a.m. and adjourning at 5 
p.m. The meeting will be held in the Horizon Ballroom of the Ronald 
Reagan Building International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC, and is open to the public.
    The purpose of the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care 
Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans is to:
    (a) Identify ways to improve benefits and services for Department 
of Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiaries and Department of Defense (DOD) 
military retirees who are also eligible for benefits from VA, through 
better coordination of the activities of the two departments;
    (b) Identify opportunities to remove barriers that impede VA and 
DOD coordination, including budgeting processes, timely billing, cost 
accounting, information technology, and reimbursement; and
    (c) Identify opportunities through partnership between VA and DOD, 
to maximize the use of resources and infrastructure, including 
buildings, information technology and data sharing systems, procurement 
of supplies, equipment, and services.
    The morning and afternoon sessions will be a discussion of format 
and issues for the Final Report to the President.
    Interested parties can provide written comments to Mr. Dan Amon, 
Communications Director, President's Task Force to Improve Health Care 
Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans, 1401 Wilson Boulevard, 4th Floor, 
Arlington, Virginia, 22209.

    Dated: January 21, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-1835 Filed 1-27-03; 8:45 am]
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