[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 93 (Monday, May 16, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 25884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-9651]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee on Women Veterans; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Advisory Committee 
on Women Veterans will conduct site visits on June 20-24, 2005, at the 
VA New Jersey Health Care System's East Orange Campus VA Medical 
Center, 385 Tremont Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07018, and the Lyons Campus 
VA Medical Center, 151 Knollcroft Road, Lyons, NJ 07939, as well as 
several other VA facilities in the area. The site visits will be held 
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 VA designed to meet such needs. The 
Committee will make recommendations to the Secretary regarding such 
programs and activities.
    On June 20, the agenda topics for this meeting will include 
briefings and updates by the key leadership at the East Orange Campus 
VA Medical Center (VAMC) and the Women Veterans Program Managers in 
Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN) 3, as well as briefings 
from VISN leadership. On June 21, the Committee will hear briefings and 
updates by the key leadership at the Newark VA Regional Office (VARO) 
and will hear briefings from staff at the Newark Vet Center. The 
Committee will also tour the East Orange Campus VAMC and hear briefings 
from the service line chiefs at that facility. On June 22, the 
Committee will hear briefings and updates by the key leadership group 
at the East Orange Campus VAMC as well as updates from other VISN 
leadership. On June 23, the Committee will tour the Lyons Campus VAMC 
as well as hear briefings from leadership at that facility. On June 24, 
an open forum and town hall meeting with the women veterans' community 
will be held at the East Orange Campus VAMC.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Ms. 
Rebecca Schiller at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center for 
Women Veterans (OOW), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. 
Ms. Schiller may be contacted either by phone at (202) 273-6193, fax at 
(202) 273-7092, 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 10, 2005.

    By direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-9651 Filed 5-13-05; 8:45 am]
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