[Federal Register: September 2, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 170)]
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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 that a meeting of the Advisory Commitee on Prosthetics and 
Special-Disabilities Programs (Committee) will be held Tuesday and 
Wednesday, September 1-2, 1998, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC. The September 1 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. 
and adjourn at 4 p.m. in Room C7C and the September 2 session will 
convene at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 noon in Room 630. On the 
morning of September 1, the Committee will receive briefings by the 
National Program Directors of the Special-Disabilities Programs 
regarding the status of their activities over the last six months. In 
the afternoon, the Committee will receive a briefing on the data 
collection methodology used in the Report to Congress on Maintaining 
Capacity to Provide for the Specialized Treatment and Rehabilitative 
Needs of Disabled Veterans. On the morning of September 2, the 
Committee will be given a status report on the development of outcome 
measures for the special disability programs. The Committee will finish 
with a discussion on its recommendations with input from VHA senior 
manager (Chief Patient Care Services Officer.) The purpose of the 
Committee on Prosthetics and Special- Disabilities Programs is to 
advise the Department on its prosthetic programs designed to provide 
state-of-the-art prosthetics and the associated rehabilitation 
research, development, and evaluation of such technology. The Committee 
also advises the Department on special disability programs which are 
defined as any program administered by the Secretary to serve veterans 
with spinal cord injury, blindness or vision impairment, loss of or 
loss of use of extremities, deafness or hearing impairment, or other 
serious incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
    The meeting is open to the public. For those wishing additional 
information, contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health Administration 
(113), phone (202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. Notice of availability of 
the Executive Summary of this meeting will be published in the Federal 
Register in the near future.

    Dated: August 25, 1998.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-23615 Filed 9-1-98; 8:45 am]
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