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March 7, 1997. The meetings will take

place at the Department of Veterans

Affairs, Veterans Benefits

Administration Office, Room 542, 1800

G. St., NW., Washington, DC, from 8:30

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6,

and from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on

Friday, March 7. The purpose of the

Committee is to assist in the evaluation

of existing programs and services, and

recommends needed new programs and

services. The agenda for both days will

be devoted to discussion of the

Montgomery GI Bill—Selected Reserve

(MGIB–SR) program and if it is fulfilling

its intention as a recruitment and

retention tool.

The meeting will be open to the

public. Those wishing to attend should

contact Ms. June Schaeffer, Assistant

Director, Education Policy and Program

Administration, (phone 202–273–7187)

prior to February 28, 1997.

Interested persons may attend, appear

before, or file statements with the

Committee. Statements, if in written

form, may be filed before or within 10

days after the meeting. Oral statements

will be heard at 9:00 a.m., Friday, March

7, 1997.

Dated: February 11, 1997.

By Direction of the Secretary:

Heyward Bannister,

Committee Management Officer.

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Advisory Committee on Prosthetics

and Special-Disabilities Programs:

Notice of Meeting

The Department of Veterans Affairs

(VA) gives notice under Public Law 92–

463 that a meeting of the Advisory

Committee on Prosthetics and SpecialDisabilities Programs will be held

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11–12,

1997, at VA Headquarters, 810 Vermont

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. The

meeting on March 11 will be held in

Room 630 and the meeting on March 12

will be held in the Omar Bradley

Conference Room, 10th Floor. The March

11 session will convene at 8:00 a.m. and

adjourn at 4 p.m. and the March 12

session will convene at 9:00 a.m. and

adjourn at 12:00 noon. The meeting on

March 11 will involve briefings by the

National Program Directors of the

Special-disabilities Programs regarding

the status of their activities over the last

six months, a status report on

implementation of the Veterans’ Health

Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996 as it

pertains to the Benefits Package and the

legislative requirement to maintain

capacity to meet specialized needs of

disabled veterans. The meeting on

March 12 will consist of a joint meeting

of the Advisory Committee on

Prosthetics and special-Disabilities

Programs and the Veterans Advisory

Committee on Rehabilitation. The

purpose of this meeting is to discuss

program issues of mutual interest and

concern.

The purpose of the Advisory

committee on Prosthetics and Specialdisabilities Program is to advise the

Department on its prosthetic programs

designed to provide state-of-the-art

prosthetics and the associated

rehabilitation research, development,

and evaluation of such technology. The

Advisory Committee also advises the

Department 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.

The meeting is open to the public to

the capacity of the room. For those

wishing to attend, contact Kathy

Pessagno, Veterans Health

Administration (113), phone (202) 273–

8512, Department of Veterans Affairs,

810 Vermont Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20420, prior to March

7, 1997.

Dated: February 13, 1997.

Heyward Bannister,

Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–4418 Filed 2–21–97; 8:45 am]

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