[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 30, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 50277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23581]


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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 3-4, 2009, in Room C-7 at VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The sessions will convene at 8:30 
a.m. on both days and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on November 3 and noon 
on November 4. 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 3, the Committee will be briefed by the Acting 
Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Office of Facilities 
Management, and the Chief of Prosthetics and Clinical Logistics. On 
November 4, the Committee will be briefed by a representative from the 
Office of Quality and Performance.
    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 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Any member of the 
public wishing to attend the meeting should contact Mr. Long at (202) 
461-7354.

    Dated: September 25, 2009.
    By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-23581 Filed 9-29-09; 8:45 am]
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