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also hear presentations on activities in 

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Network. The day will conclude with 

new business and general discussion. 

On October 14, the Committee’s medical 

and administrative work groups will 

meet separately to discuss their new 

recommendations and report to the 

Committee Chairman. Additionally, the 

Committee will analyze the comments 

discussed throughout the meeting for 

the development of a final report for the 

Secretary. 

Members of the public may direct 

questions or submit written statements 

for review by the Committee in advance 

of the meeting to Rene ́e L. Szybala, 

Director, Compensation and Pension 

Service (21), Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20420.

Dated: September 20, 2004.

By Direction of the Secretary. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer.

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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 the Public Law 

92–463 (Federal Advisory Committee 

Act) that a meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on Prosthetics and Special 

Disabilities Programs will be held 

November 9–10, 2004, at VA 

Headquarters, 810 Vermont Avenue, 

NW., Room 830, Washington, DC. 

Meeting sessions will convene at 8:30 

a.m. on both days and will adjourn at 

4:30 p.m. on November 9 and at 12 noon 

on November 19. 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 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 November 9, the 

Committee will be briefed by the Chief 

Consultants, Rehabilitation Strategic 

Healthcare Group and Prosthetics and 

Sensory Aids. In the afternoon, the 

Committee will be briefed by the 

directors of VA’s special disabilities 

programs (physical medicine and 

rehabilitation, audiology and speech 

pathology), and the national program 

directors of VA’s ophthalmology and 

optometry programs. On the morning of 

November 10, the Committee will be 

briefed by the Director Rehabilitation 

Research and Development, and will 

subsequently discuss the annual 

Capacity Report as well as transition 

issues and benefits. 

No time will be allocated for receiving 

oral presentations from the public. 

However, members of the public may 

direct questions or submit written 

statements for review by the Committee 

in advance of the meeting to Ms. 

Cynthia Wade, Veterans Health 

Administration, Patient Care Services, 

Rehabilitation Strategic Healthcare 

Group (117), Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20420. Any member of 

the public wishing to attend the meeting 

should contact Ms. Wade at (202) 273–

8485.

Dated: September 20, 2004. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer.

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