[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28888-28889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-13078]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee on Women Veterans; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Pub. L. 92-
463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Advisory Committee on 
Women Veterans will conduct site visits to the Carl T. Hayden VA 
Medical Center (VAMC), 650 East Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ 85012, 
and several other VA facilities in the area. The site visits will be 
held on June 16-20, 2003, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., each day and will 
be open to the public .
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs regarding the needs of women veterans with respect to health 
care, rehabilitation, compensation, outreach, and other programs and 
activities administered by the VA designed to meet such needs. The 
Committee will make recommendations to the Secretary regarding such 
programs and activities.
    On June 16, the agenda topics for this meeting will include 
briefings and updates by the key leadership group at the Carl T. Hayden 
VAMC and the Women Veterans Program Managers in Veterans Integrated 
Services Network (VISN) 18. Tours of the Carl T. Hayden VAMC, including 
the ambulatory care clinics, will be conducted. On June 17, briefings 
and updates by the key leadership group at the Carl T. Hayden VAMC will 
continue. On June 18, site visits will be made to the VISN 18 
facilities and community-based outpatient clinics in Mesa. On June 19, 
site visits will be made to the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona 
and the State Veterans Home. On June 20, an open forum and town hall 
meeting with the women veterans' community will be held at the Carl T. 
Hayden VAMC.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Mrs. 
Desiree W. Long, at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for 
Women Veterans (00W), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. 
Mrs. Long may be contacted either by phone at (202)

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273-6193, fax at (202) 273-7093 or e-mail at [email protected]. 
Interested persons may attend, appear before, or file statements with 
the Committee. Written statements must be filed before the meeting, or 
within 10 days after the meeting.

    Dated: May 19, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary,
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-13078 Filed 5-23-03; 8:45 am]
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