[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21107-21108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9088]


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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 on May 3-4, 2011, in room 230, at VA Central Office, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The sessions will convene at 8:30 
a.m. on both days, and will adjourn at 4:30 p.m. on May 3 and at 12 
noon on May 4. The meeting is open to the public.
    The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs on VA's prosthetics 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 disabilities programs which 
are defined as any program administered by the Secretary to serve 
Veterans with spinal cord injuries, blindness or visual impairments, 
loss of extremities or loss of function, deafness or hearing 
impairment, and other serious incapacities in terms of daily life 
functions.
    On May 3, the Committee will be briefed by the Acting Assistant 
Deputy Under Secretary for Clinical Operations and Management; Chief 
Consultant for Social Work Service; Director of Blind Rehabilitation 
Service; and Chief Consultant for Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders 
Strategic Healthcare Group. On May 4, the Committee will be briefed by 
the Chief Consultant for Care Coordination, and Chief Consultant for 
Rehabilitation Services.
    No time will be allocated for receiving oral presentations from the 
public. However, members of the public may submit written statements 
for review by the Committee to Mr. Larry N. Long, Designated Federal 
Officer, Veterans Health Administration, Patient Care Services, 
Rehabilitation Services (117D), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, or by e-mail at 
[email protected].

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Any member of the public wishing to attend the meeting or wishing 
further information should contact Mr. Long at (202) 461-7354.

    Dated: April 11, 2011.

    By direction of the Secretary.
William F. Russo,
Director of Regulations Management, Office of the General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-9088 Filed 4-13-11; 8:45 am]
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