[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 81 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22174-22175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8462]


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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 Pub. L. 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the Advisory 
Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs will be held 
May 17-18, 2005, in Room 830, VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20420. Meeting sessions will convene at 8:30 a.m. on 
both days and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on May 17, and at 2 p.m. on May 
18. 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 the use of extremities, deafness or hearing impairment, or other 
serious incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
    On the morning of May 17, the Committee will review and discuss the 
Blind Rehabilitation Services and Seamless Transition and the Fiscal 
Year 2003 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 May 18, the Committee will be briefed by the Vocational 
Rehabilitation and Employment Service and the General Counsel's staff 
(on federal ethics standards).
    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),

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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 19, 2005.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-8462 Filed 4-27-05; 8:45 am]
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