[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 75 (Thursday, April 18, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16343-16344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-07760]


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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, that a meeting and site visit of the 
Federal Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities 
Programs will be held on April 29-30, 2019, in the Spinal Cord Injury 
(SCI) Middle Dining Room, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, 13000 Bruce 
B. Downs Boulevard, Tampa, Florida. The meeting will convene at 8:30 
a.m. on April 29 and April 30, and will adjourn at 4:00 p.m. on April 
29, 2019, and at 11:15 a.m. on April 30, 2019. Sessions are open to the 
public except when the Committee is conducting tours of VA facilities, 
and participating in off-site events. Tours of VA facilities are closed 
to protect Veterans' privacy and personal information, in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. Sec. 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 April 29, 2019, the Committee will convene open sessions on VA's 
Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Service and Polytrauma System of Care, 
James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, 13000 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, from 
8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. The Committee will convene closed sessions from 
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. as the Committee members tour the Spinal Cord 
Injury Center; the Polytrauma Center; the Amputation Specialty Clinic 
and Orthotic and Prosthetic Clinic; the Recreation Therapy Clinic, the 
Occupational Therapy Visual Impairment Clinic, and the Speech and 
Audiology Clinic. On April 30, 2019, the Committee will convene open 
sessions from 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
    No time will be allocated for receiving oral presentations from the 
public; however, members of the public may direct questions or submit 
written

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statements for review by the Committee in advance of the meeting to 
Judy Schafer, Ph.D., Designated Federal Officer, Veterans Health 
Administration, Patient Care Services, Rehabilitation and Prosthetic 
Services (10P4R), 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 30 minutes before the meeting begins. Any member of the 
public wishing to attend the meeting should contact Dr. Schafer at 
(202) 461-7315.

    Dated: April 15, 2019.
LaTonya L. Small,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-07760 Filed 4-17-19; 8:45 am]
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