[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58942-58943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-5123]


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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 Programs 
will be held November 7-8, 2007, in Room C7A, 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 November 7 and will end 
at 12 Noon on November 8. 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 visual impairment, loss 
of extremities or loss of function, deafness or hearing impairment, and 
other serious incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
    On November 7, the Committee will be briefed by the Chief 
Consultant for Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare Group, Chief of 
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service, Deputy Director of 
Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment Services, the Chief of 
Prosthetics and Clinical Logistics, Director of Retinal Surgery from 
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a VA panel presentation on amputee 
care, and the Chief Consultant for Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare 
Group. On November 8, the Committee will be briefed by the Chief 
Consultant for Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare Group on Audiology 
and Speech Pathology Programs.
    No time will be allocated for receiving oral presentations from the 
public. However, members of the public may direct questions or submit 
written statements in advance of the meeting for review by the 
Committee to Mr. Larry N. Long, Designated Federal Officer, Veterans 
Health Administration, Patient Care Services, Rehabilitation Strategic 
Healthcare Group (117D), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Any member of the public wishing to 
attend

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the meeting should contact Mr. Long at (202) 273-8479.

    Dated: October 12, 2007.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-5123 Filed 10-16-07; 8:45 am]
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