[Federal Register: August 9, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 152)]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

 
Meeting of the Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health 
Affairs).

ACTION: Notice of meeting; Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory 
Panel.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a meeting of the Uniform Formulary 
Beneficiary Advisory Panel. The panel will review and comment on 
recommendations made to the Director, TRICARE Management Activity, by 
the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee regarding the Uniform 
Formulary. The meeting will be open to the public. Seating is limited 
and will be provided only to the first 220 people signing in. All 
persons must sign in legibly. Notice of this meeting is required under 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

DATES: Wednesday, September 28, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Naval Heritage Center Theater, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Rich Martel, TRICARE Management 
Activity, Pharmacy Operations, Beneficiary Advisory Panel, Suite 810, 
5111 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041, telephone (703) 681-0064 
ext. 3672, fax (703) 681-1242, or e-mail at 
richard.martel.ctr@tma.osd.mil.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory 
Panel will only review and comment on the development of the Uniform 
Formulary as reflected in the recommendations of the DoD Pharmacy and 
Therapeutics (P&T) Committee coming out of that body's meeting in 
August 2005. The P&T Committee information and subject matter 
concerning drug classes reviewed for that meeting are available at 
http://pec.ha.osd.mil. Any private citizen is permitted to file a 

written statement with the advisory panel. Statements must be submitted 
electronically to richard.martel.ctr@tma.osd.mil no later than 
September 21, 2005. Any private citizen is permitted to speak at the 
Beneficiary Advisory Panel meeting, time permitting. One hour will be 
reserved for public comments, and speaking times will be assigned only 
to the first twelve citizens to sign up at the meeting, on a first-
come, first-served basis. The amount of time allocated to a speaker 
will not exceed five minutes.

    Dated: August 3, 2005.
Jeannette Owings-Ballard,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 05-15697 Filed 8-5-05; 8:45 am]

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