[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14474-14475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7006]


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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 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's 
Veterans is scheduled for Wednesday, April 9, 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. The meeting 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

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    (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.
    No time will be allocated at this meeting for receiving oral 
presentations from the public. 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: March 18, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-7006 Filed 3-24-03; 8:45 am]
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