[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 69 (Friday, April 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 19010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-8066]


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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 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs 
will be held June 1, 2004, in Room 830, and June 2, 2004, in Room 742, 
at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. Meeting 
sessions will convene at 8:30 a.m. on both days and will adjourn at 
4:30 p.m. on June 1 and 12 noon on June 2. The meeting is open to the 
public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs on VA's prosthetic programs designed to provide state-of-the-
art prosthetics and the associated rehabilitation research, 
development, and evaluation of such technology. The Committee also 
provides advice to the Secretary 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 June 1, the Committee will review and discuss the 
Fiscal Year 2003 draft Capacity Report. In the afternoon, the Committee 
will have briefings by the Chief Consultants, Rehabilitation Strategic 
Healthcare Group, Prosthetics and Sensory Aids, and Spinal Cord Injury. 
On the morning of June 2, the Committee will be briefed by the Acting 
Director of the Blind Rehabilitation Service and the Chief Consultant 
Medical/Surgical Services on the Seamless Transition program.
    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, Designated Federal Officer, 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: April 2, 2004.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-8066 Filed 4-8-04; 8:45 am]
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