[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 16729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05547]


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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. 10, that the Advisory 
Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities is having a meeting 
and site visit to be held on April 18-19, 2023. The meeting sessions 
will begin and end as follows:

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                   Dates                                Times
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April 18, 2023............................  8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
                                             Eastern Standard Time
                                             (EST).
April 19, 2023............................  8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST.
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    The meeting will be a hybrid meeting, held in-person at the Spinal 
Cord Injury (SCI) Building. Middle Dining Room, James A. Haley Veterans 
Hospital, 13000 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, Tampa, Florida; and virtually 
via WebEx conferencing. A limited number of public stakeholder seats 
will be made available due to ongoing health and safety protocols that 
are enforced at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital VA Tampa 
Healthcare System; the public also may attend the meeting virtually via 
WebEx conferencing. Masked are required during the meeting. Sessions 
will not be open to the public when the Committee is conducting tours 
of VA facilities. Tours of VA facilities are closed to protect 
Veterans' privacy and personal information, 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 April 18, 2023, the Committee will convene in open (hybrid) 
sessions, from 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m. EST, with introductory remarks and a 
presentation from the Advisory Committee Management Office. The 
Committee will convene closed sessions from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. EST as the 
Committee members tour the Tampa Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center; 
Spinal Cord Injury Center; Amputation Specialty Clinic and Prosthetic 
Fabrication Lab. Beginning at 3 p.m. EST, the meeting session will 
reconvene an open (hybrid) session; and the day will conclude with 
presentations from VA's National Occupational Therapy Program; National 
Physical Therapy Program; and National Spinal Cord Injury System of 
Care Program.
    On April 19, 2023, the Committee will convene in open sessions at 
the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Building, Middle Dining Room, James A. 
Haley Veterans Hospital with presentations on VA's National Physical 
Medicine and Rehabilitation; Polytrauma System of Care; Amputation 
System of Care; Chiropractic System of Care; and VA's Orthotic and 
Pedorthic Clinical Services Programs.
    The Committee will be in open session for an abbreviated time; 
therefore, no time will be allocated for receiving oral presentations 
from the public. Members of the public may submit written statements 
for review by the Committee in advance of the meeting. Public comments 
may be received no later than April 11, 2023, for inclusion in the 
official meeting record. Please send these comments to Dr. Lauren 
Racoosin, Designated Federal Officer, Rehabilitation and Prosthetic 
Services, Veterans Health Administration, at [email protected].
    Due to ongoing health and safety protocols, there will be limited 
seating at this facility. Only those members of the public (first 10 
public stakeholders) who confirm their attendance will be allowed to 
attend in-person. Masked are required during the meeting. In order to 
accommodate your in-person attendance, please notify Dr. Racoosin at 
[email protected]; also, any member of the public seeking 
additional information should contact Dr. Racoosin. Members of the 
public who prefer to attend the meeting virtually may join using the 
WebEx conferencing link below:

https://veteransaffairs.webex.com/veteransaffairs/j.php?MTID=mb4279e783f106b7eefaf3d67e0c17c05.

    To join by phone 14043971596/Access code: 2764 861 8609.
    Recordings and transcript of the meeting will be posted on the 
Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special-Disabilities Programs 
website: https://www.va.gov/ADVISORY/Advisory_Committee_on_Prosthetics_and_Special_Disabilities_Programs_Statutory.asp after the meeting.

    Dated: March 14, 2023.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-05547 Filed 3-17-23; 8:45 am]
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