[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 49 (Thursday, March 13, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12153-12154]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6100]


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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 April 8-9, 2003, at VA 
Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington,

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DC. The meeting will be held in Room 430 on both days. Meeting sessions 
will convene at 8:30 a.m. on both days and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on 
April 8 and at 12 noon on April 9. The meeting is open to the public.
    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 the morning of April 8, the Committee will receive briefings by 
the Chief Consultant, Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare Group, and 
the Director, Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) 
Program. In the afternoon, the Committee will be briefed by the 
directors of VA's special disability programs--spinal cord injury, 
blind rehabilitation, prosthetics, audiology and speech pathology. 
Additional briefing will be provided by the program directors of 
ophthalmology and optometry. On the morning of April 9, the Committee 
will be briefed by the Director of the Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service and will review the most recent report on 
maintaining treatment capacity in VA's special disability programs.
    No time will be allocated for receiving oral presentations from the 
public. However, members of the public may direct questions or submit 
written statements for review by the Committee in advance of the 
meeting to Ms. Cynthia Wade, Veterans Health Administration, Patient 
Care Services, Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare Group (117), 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 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: March 6, 2003.
E. Phillip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-6100 Filed 3-12-03; 8:45 am]
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