Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs; Notice of Meeting, 14567 [E8-5319]

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• DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 14567]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5319]



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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 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs 
will be held April 9-10, 2008, in Room 230, at VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The sessions will convene at 8:30 
a.m. each day and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on April 9 and will end at 
12 Noon on April 10. The meeting is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs on VA's prosthetic 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 disability programs which 
are defined as any program administered by the Secretary to serve 
veterans with spinal cord injury, blindness or visual impairment, loss 
of extremities or loss of function, deafness or hearing impairment, and 
other serious incapacities in terms of daily life functions.
    On April 9, the Committee will be briefed by the Chief Consultant 
for Rehabilitation Services; Director, Chiropractic Care; Assistant 
Director, Compensation and Pension Service, Veterans Benefits 
Administration; Chief Consultant, Office of Care Coordination; 
Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service; Acting 
Director, Blind Rehabilitation Service and Chief Consultant, Spinal 
Cord Injury and Disorders. On April 10, the Committee will be briefed 
by the Chief, Library Service.
    Time is not allocated for receiving oral presentations from the 
public. However, members of the public may direct questions or submit 
written statements in advance of the meeting for review by the 
Committee to Mr. Larry N. Long, Designated Federal Officer, Veterans 
Health Administration, Patient Care Services, Rehabilitation Services, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20420. Any member of the public wishing to attend the meeting should 
contact Mr. Long at (202) 461-7354.

    Dated: March 11, 2008.
    By Direction of the Secretary:
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
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