[Federal Register: August 13, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 156)]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 
Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 that a meeting of the Veterans' Advisory Committee on 
Rehabilitation (VACOR), authorized by 38 U.S.C., Section 3121, will be 
held September 23rd through 25th, 1998. The meeting will be held in 
room #730 at VA Central Office, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
20420. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the Committee with 
current information regarding the reorganization of the VA's Health and 
Benefits Administrations, determine how these service-delivery changes 
may potentially impact on the rehabilitation of disabled veterans, and 
generate change recommendations, if needed, to ensure the effectiveness 
of the VA's programs of veteran rehabilitation. In addition, the 
committee will be informed of the new Vocational Rehabilitation and 
Counseling (VR&C) Quality Assurance Program, outside contracting for 
rehabilitation services, and review of preliminary findings made by the 
Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance.
    The September 23rd meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. Prior to a full 
discussion of the VR&C Quality Assurance program, the VA's Deputy 
Ethics Official will assist members in completing financial disclosure 
forms and updating prior year form submissions. The afternoon session 
will focus on the reorganization of service delivery in the VA Health 
and Benefits Administrations. A 3:45 p.m. adjournment time is 
anticipated.
    On September 24th, the Committee will reconvene at 9:00 a.m. and 
hear a presentation from the Chairman of the Commission on 
Servicemembers and Veterans Assistance Transition regarding preliminary 
Committee findings relative to the VA's Vocational Rehabilitation and 
Counseling program. Following that presentation, spokespersons from the 
Vocational Rehabilitation & Counseling program will address the issues 
of outside contracting for rehabilitation services and current program 
activities designed to more effectively market VR&C initiatives and 
successes within both the VA and the community at large. A 3:45 p.m. 
adjournment will follow a review of implications for future program 
directions based on information received. The September 25th meeting 
will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will focus on general Committee findings, 
the generation of specific recommendations for program changes, and a 
discussion of future meetings, potential meeting locations and future 
agenda topics. Adjournment will follow at approximately 12:00 noon.
    All meetings will be open to the general public. Oral statements 
will be received by the general public on September 25th at 9:00 a.m.
    Anyone having questions concerning the meeting may contact Frank J. 
Donlan, Counseling Psychologist, Department of Veterans Affairs, at 
(202) 273-7436.

    Dated: August 3, 1998.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-21698 Filed 8-12-98; 8:45 am]
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