[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 626-627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-9985]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Veteran's Disability Benefits Commission; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Veterans' 
Disability Benefits Commission has scheduled a meeting for January 18-
19, 2007, at the Hotel Washington, 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. each day and end 
at 5:15 p.m. on January 18 and 3 p.m. on January 19. The meeting is 
open to the public.
    The purpose of the Commission is to carry out a study of the 
benefits under the laws of the United States that are provided to 
compensate and assist veterans and their survivors for disabilities and 
deaths attributable to military service.
    The agenda for the meeting will include updates on the progress of 
the studies being conducted by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and 
the Insititue of Medicine (IOM). CNA will include an overview and 
discussion with Commissioners regarding its research and analyses of 
Individual Unemployability and Program Operations. VA will provide a 
public response to IOM's request for documents and information related 
to IOM's research on behalf of the Commission. In addition to providing 
a summary of the overall status of Issue Papers addressing specific 
Research Questions, Commission staff will also facilitate the 
presentation and discussion of new or revised Issue Papers at various 
stages of development. (Research Questions approved by the Commission 
on October 14, 2005, are available upon request or please visit the 
Commission's Web site at http://www.vetscommission.org.)
    On January 19, there will be time set aside for the Commission to 
receive comments from veteran and military service organizations and 
interested members of the public on three topics related to specific 
Research Questions. The three topics will be: Line of Duty (Research 
Question 13); Character of Discharge (Research Question 23); and 
Concurrent Receipt (Research Question 21).
    Interested persons may present oral statements to the Commission on 
January 19. Oral presentations will be limited to five minutes or less, 
depending on the number of participants. Interested parties may also 
provide written comments for review by the Commission prior to the 
meeting or

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at any time, by e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to Mr. 
Ray Wilburn, Executive Director, Veterans' Disability Benefits 
Commission, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 5th Floor, Washington, DC 
20004.

    Dated: December 27, 2006.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-9985 Filed 1-4-07; 8:45 am]
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