[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16349-16350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8159]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Special Medical Advisory Group; 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 
Special Medical Advisory Group (SMAG) will

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be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2003. The meeting will convene at 9 a.m. 
and end at 2 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 830, Washington, DC 
20420. The meeting is open to the public.
    The purpose of SMAG is to advise the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
and the Under Secretary for Health on matters relating to the care and 
treatment of veterans and other matters pertinent to the operations of 
the Veterans Health Administration (i.e., research, education and 
training of health manpower, and VA/DOD contingency planning).
    The meeting will focus on discussions of various strategic clinical 
issues affecting VA's delivery of health care services. Those issues 
include ongoing emergency preparedness activities and plans to carry 
out VA's mission as a health care back up to the Defense Department 
during certain national emergencies.
    No time will be allocated at this meeting for receiving oral 
presentations from the public. Interested parties can provide written 
comments for review by the Committee in advance to the meeting to Ms. 
Terrie Brown, Designated Federal Officer, Department of Veterans 
Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (10B), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20420. Those wishing to attend should contact Ms. Sylvia 
Best, Office of the Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans 
Affairs, at (202) 273-5806.

    Dated: March 26, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-8159 Filed 4-2-03; 8:45 am]
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