[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 23 (Monday, February 5, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5317-5318]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-492]


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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 meet February 27-March 1, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. 
to 4 p.m. each day. The meeting will be held in the Board of Veterans 
Appeals Conference Room, (room 819), Lafayette Building, 811 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington. The meeting is 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 February 27, the agenda will include briefings on initiatives of 
the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits 
Administration, VA's Homeless Program and Incarcerated Veterans Re-
entry Initiative; an update on activities of the Center for Women

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Veterans; and an overview of the Department's initiatives, budget, and 
current legislation affecting women veterans. On February 28, the 
Committee will visit Capitol Hill, receive briefing on the VHA Women 
Veterans Health Program, and discuss any new issues the Committee 
members introduce. On March 1, the Committee will receive updates and 
briefings on the status of VA's Fee Service Program, domestic violence, 
the new Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Services Program, and 
the Center for Minority Veterans. The Committee will discuss site 
selection criteria and any new issues that members introduce.
    Any member of the public wishing to attend should contact Ms. 
Chanel Bankston-Carter, at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Center 
for Women Veterans (00W), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20420. Ms. Bankston-Carter 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: January 30, 2007.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-492 Filed 2-2-07; 8:45 am]
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