[Federal Register: March 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 60)]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 
Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice that a meeting 
of the Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials, authorized by 38 
U.S.C. 2401, will be held Tuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 
at the Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters, Room 230, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. This will be the committee's 
second meeting of Fiscal Year 1999.
    The purpose of the committee is to review the administration of 
VA's cemeteries and burial benefits program. The meeting will convene 
on Tuesday, June 8, at 8:15 a.m. (EDT) and adjourn at 5:30 p.m. (EDT). 
On Wednesday, June 9, the meeting will reconvene at 8:15 a.m. (EDT) and 
adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (EDT).
    On Tuesday, June 8, the Committee will be updated on National 
Cemetery Administration (NCA) issues. Members will be briefed on 
operations at Quantico National Cemetery, and the NCA Operations 
Support Center, which is the location of the Systems Integration Center 
and the Centralized Contracting Division. Additionally, members will 
tour the cemetery and the NCA Operations Support Center.
    On Wednesday, June 9, the Committee will reconvene for updates and 
reports on military honors, cemetery focus groups, the Visitor Comment 
Card survey, legislation on doubly marked graves and eligibility, 
cremation gardens and construction and dedications of new cemeteries.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Individuals wishing to 
attend the meeting should contact Ms. Paige Lowther, National Cemetery 
Administration, [phone (202) 273-5164] no later than 12 noon (EDT), May 
31, 1999.
    Any interested person may attend, appear before, or file a 
statement with the Committee. Individuals wishing to appear before the 
Committee should indicate this in a letter to the Acting Under 
Secretary for Memorial Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (40), 
at 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. 20420. In any such letters, 
the writers must fully identify themselves and state the organization, 
association or person(s) they represent. In addition, to the extent 
practicable, letters should indicate the subject matter to be 
discussed. Oral presentations should be limited to 10 minutes in 
duration. Individuals wishing to file written statements to be 
submitted to the Committee must also mail, or otherwise deliver, them 
to the Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, National Cemetery 
Administration.
    Letters and written statements as discussed above must be mailed or 
delivered in time to reach the Acting Under Secretary for Memorial 
Affairs, National Cemetery Administration, by 12 noon (EDT), May 31, 
1999. Oral statements will be heard between 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. 
(EDT), June 9, 1999, at Department of Veterans Affairs Headquarters, 
Room 230, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420.

    Dated: March 23, 1999.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-7707 Filed 3-29-99; 8:45 am]
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