[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17723-17724]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8725]


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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 Thursday, April 24, 2003, beginning at 9 a.m. 
and adjourning at 5 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Jefferson 
Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel Old Town, 901 North Fairfax Street, 
Alexandria, VA. The meeting is open to the general public.
    The purpose of the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care 
Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans is to:

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    (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 of the April 24, meeting will 
focus on consideration and approval of the Task Force's final report 
for submission to the President. It is expected that this will be the 
final meeting of the Task Force.
    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: April 2, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
R. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-8725 Filed 4-9-03; 8:45 am]
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