[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62589-62590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-24937]


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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 5-6, 2008 in Room 230, at VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The sessions will begin at 8:30 
a.m. each day and will end at 4:30 p.m. on November 5 and at 12 noon on 
November 6. 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 the morning of November 5, the Committee will be briefed by a 
representative from the Department of Labor, the Director of Veterans 
Employment Coordination Services, and the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer. 
In the afternoon, the Committee will receive briefings from the 
Director of Physical

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Medicine & Rehabilitation Service, Chief Consultant for Women Veterans 
Health, and Associate Chief Consultant for Homeless & Residential 
Rehabilitation. On November 6, there will be a panel presentation on 
VA's Amputee System of Care.
    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 Mr. Larry N. Long, Designated Federal Officer, Veterans 
Health Administration, Patient Care Services, Rehabilitation Services 
(117D), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20420. Any member of the public wishing to attend the 
meeting should contact Mr. Long at (202) 461-7354.

    Dated: October 10, 2008.

    By direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-24937 Filed 10-20-08; 8:45 am]
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