[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 41 (Friday, March 2, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9612-9613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-976]


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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 Program will 
be held March 20-21, 2007 in Room 230, at VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The sessions will convene at 8:30 
a.m. each day and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on March 20 and

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will end at 12 noon on March 21. 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 March 20, the Committee will be briefed by the Chief of 
Rehabilitation Service; the Director, Blind Rehabilitation Service; the 
Chief Consultant, Prosthetics and Clinical Logistics; the Chief 
Consultant, Spinal Cord Injury and Disorder Service; and the Acting 
Director of Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. On March 
21, the Committee will be briefed by the Director of the Veterans 
Benefits Administration, Compensation and Pension Service.
    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: February 21, 2007.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-976 Filed 3-1-07; 8:45 am]
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