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Authorization Card) credit card

transactions. The Department of

Veterans Affairs (VA), with the

assistance of an outside entity, will send

VA Form Letter 4–555 to collect the

necessary information from merchants

the Federal governments has done

business with using the I.M.P.A.C.

credit card so that they may provide

adequate reporting for CY 1997. The

form letter will support the validity and

urgency for the collection of information

and provide a standardized format for

reporting. The General Services

Administration (GSA) could not issue

this type of collection of information at

this time, due to the current reprocurement status for the purchase

credit card.

It is essential to the VA’s reporting

requirements that this type of

information be collected for our

I.M.P.A.C. card transactions during CY

1997. By law, VA as well as all Federal

agencies, must report 1099 status and

also have requirements to report the

socio-economic status of the merchants

with whom we do business.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.

Estimated Annual Burden: 62,500

hours.

Estimated Average Burden Per

Respondent: 5 minutes.

Frequency of Response: One-time.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

750,000.

Dated: September 22, 1997.

By direction of the Secretary.

Donald L. Neilson,

Director, Information Management Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS

AFFAIRS

Persian Gulf Expert Scientific

Committee; Notice of Meeting

The Department of Veterans Affairs

(VA), in accordance with P.L. 92–463,

gives notice that a meeting of the VA

Persian Gulf Expert Scientific

Committee will be held on:

Monday, November 17, 1997, at :30

a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 18, 1997, at 8:30

a.m.–1:30 p.m.

The location of the meeting will be

810 Vermont Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C., Room 230.

The Committee’s objectives are to

advise the Under Secretary for Health

about medical findings affecting Persian

Gulf era veterans.

At this meeting the Committee will

review all aspects of patient care and

medical diagnoses and will provide

professional consultation as needed.

The Committee may advise on other

areas involving research and

development, veterans benefits and/or

training aspects for patients and staff.

All portions of the meeting will be

open to the public except from 4:00 p.m.

until 5:00 p.m. on November 17 and

from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on

November 18, 1997. During these

executive sessions, discussions and

recommendations will deal with

medical records of specific patients and

individually identifiable patient

medical histories. The disclosure of this

information would constitute a clearly

unwarranted invasion of personal

privacy. Closure of this portion of the

meeting is in accordance with

subsection 10(d) of Pub. L. 92–463, as

amended by Pub. L. 94–409, and as

cited in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6).

The agenda for November 17 will

begin with presentations on Depleted

Uranium and a Follow-up on ill Persian

Gulf Veterans. The first days’ agenda

will also cover a presentation on

Chemical/Biological Agents.

On November 18 the Committee will

hear updates on the Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome and Leishmania.

Additional information concerning

these meetings may be obtained from

the Executive Secretary, Office of Public

Health & Environmental Hazards, 810

Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington,

D.C. 20420.

Dated: September 23, 1997.

By direction of the Secretary-Designate:

Heyward Bannister,

Committee Management Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS

AFFAIRS

Enhanced-Use Development at the

VAMC, North Little Rock, AR

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of designation.

SUMMARY: The Secretary of the

Department of Veterans Affairs is

designating the Veterans Affairs Medical

Center at North Little Rock, Arkansas,

for an Enhanced-Use lease development.

The Department intends to enter into a

long-term lease of real property with the

developer whose proposal will provide

the most advantageous combination of

services and revenue as consideration to

the VA while retaining the therapeutic

benefit of golf for patients at no cost to

the Department.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jacob Gallun, Office of Asset and

Enterprise Development (189), Veterans

Health Administration, Department of

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue

NW, Washington, DC, 20420, (202) 565–

4307.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 38 U.S.C.

Sec 8161 et seq. specifically provides

that the Secretary may enter into an

Enhanced-Use lease, if the Secretary

determines that at least part of the use

of the property under the lease will be

to provide appropriate space for an

activity contributing to the mission of

the Department; the lease will not be

inconsistent with and will not adversely

affect the mission of the Department;

and the lease will enhance the property.

This project meets these requirements.

Approved: September 22, 1997.

Hershel W. Gober,

Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

[FR Doc. 97–25715 Filed 9–26–97; 8:45 am]

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