[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 202 (Monday, October 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62712-62713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24813]


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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 the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, that a meeting and 
site visit of the Federal Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and 
Special-Disabilities Programs will be held on November 4-5, 2014, in 
Room 2K-113-115 at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, 1201 
Broad Rock Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23249. The meeting will convene at 
8:30 a.m. on both days, and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on November 4 and 
at 12 noon on November 5. Meetings are open to the public except when 
the Committee is touring medical facilities. The site visit will 
include several closed sessions, to protect patient privacy during 
tours of medical facilities. Closing portions of the sessions are in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs on VA's prosthetics 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-disabilities programs, 
which are defined as any program administered by the Secretary to serve 
Veterans with spinal cord injuries, blindness or visual impairments, 
loss of extremities or loss of function, deafness or hearing 
impairment, and other serious incapacities in terms of daily life 
functions.
    On November 4, the Committee will convene an open session on VA's 
Polytrauma System of Care from 8:30-11:30 a.m. The Committee will 
convene closed sessions from 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. as they tour the 
Polytrauma Center, Regional Amputee Center, Assistive Technology Lab, 
and Spinal Cord Injury

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Center. On November 5, the Committee will convene open sessions from 
8:30-9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.-12 noon. From 9:40-10:40 a.m. the 
Committee will convene a closed session as they tour the Vision 
Impairment services in Outpatient Rehabilitation (VISOR) Program.
    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 and 
Prosthetic Services (10P4RR), VA, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, 
DC 20420, or by email at [email protected]. Because the meeting is being 
held in a government building, a photo I.D. must be presented at the 
Guard's Desk as a part of the clearance process. Therefore, you should 
allow an additional 15 minutes before the meeting begins. Any member of 
the public wishing to attend the meeting should contact Mr. Long at 
(202) 461-7354.

    Dated: October 15, 2014.
Rebecca Schiller,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-24813 Filed 10-17-14; 8:45 am]
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