[Federal Register: September 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 175)]
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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 Pub. L. 
92-463 that a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and 
Special-Disabilities Programs (Committee) will be held Thursday and 
Friday, September 23-24, 1999. The meeting on September 23 will be held 
at VA Headquarters, Room 430, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, 
and the meeting on September 24 will be held at the Senate Russell 
Office Building, Room 418, 1st and Constitution Avenue, NE., 
Washington, DC. The September 23 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and 
adjourn at 4 p.m. and the September 24 session will convene at 9:00 
a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 noon. The purpose of the Advisory 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.
    On the morning of September 23, the Committee will receive a status 
report concerning implementation of an integrated prosthetics 
organization within each Veterans Integrated Servce Network (VISN). The 
Committee will also receive briefings by the National Program Directors 
of the Special-Disabilities Programs regarding the status of their 
activities over the last five months. On the morning of September 24, 
the Committee will review and discuss with staff members of the House 
and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee the Report to Congress on 
Maintaining Capacity for the Specialized Treatment and Rehabilitative 
Needs of Disabled Veterans and the Report by the Senate Minority Staff, 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, of VA Programs for Veterans with 
Special Needs.
    The meeting is open to the public. For those wishing to attend, 
contact Kathy Pessagno, Veterans Health Administration (113), phone 
(202) 273-8512, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20420, prior to September 17, 1999.

    Dated: August 31, 1999.
Marvin R. Eason,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-23604 Filed 9-9-99; 8:45 am]
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