Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 174 / Friday, September 9, 2005 / Notices 53715 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Peterson O’Brien at 1–888–912–

1227, or 206–220–6096. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given pursuant to Section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) 

that an open meeting of the Area 7 

Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be held 

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 from 

10 a.m. Pacific Time to 11:30 a.m. 

Pacific Time via a telephone conference 

call. The public is invited to make oral 

comments. Individual comments will be 

limited to 5 minutes. If you would like 

to have the TAP consider a written 

statement, please call 1–888–912–1227 

or 206–220–6096, or write to Mary 

Peterson O’Brien, TAP Office, 915 2nd 

Avenue, MS W–406, Seattle, WA 98174 

or you can contact us at http:// 

www.improveirs.org. Due to limited 

conference lines, notification of intent 

to participate in the telephone 

conference call meeting must be made 

with Mary Peterson O’Brien. Ms. 

O’Brien can be reached at 1–888–912–

1227 or 206–220–6096. 

The agenda will include the 

following: Various IRS issues. 

Dated: September 2, 2005. 

Martha Curry, 

Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. E5–4899 Filed 9–8–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Veterans’ Disability Benefits 

Commission; Notice of Meeting 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under Public Law 92–

463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) 

that the Veterans’ Disability Benefits 

Commission has scheduled a meeting 

on September 15–16, 2005, in the 

Lincoln Ballroom, Fourth Floor, Holiday 

Inn, 8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver 

Spring, Maryland 20910. The meeting is 

open to the public and will begin at 8:30 

a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. each day. The 

public is encouraged to visit the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.va.gov/vetscommission for 

transportation options to the Holiday 

Inn from the Silver Spring metro stop. 

The purpose of the Commission is to 

carry out a study of the benefits under 

the laws of the United States that are 

provided to compensate and assist 

veterans and their survivors for 

disabilities and deaths attributable to 

military service. 

The agenda for the meeting will 

include briefings by each of the 

Veterans’ Disability Benefits 

Commission Subcommittees, one or 

more Federally Funded Research and 

Development Center(s) [FFRDC(s)], and 

the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the 

National Academy of Sciences. The 

purpose of these briefings will be to 

provide the Commission with 

recommendations on key issues and 

research questions for further study and 

analysis, followed by an overview of 

potential research projects and 

methodologies to assist the Commission 

with its charter and fulfill the 

requirements outlined in Public Law 

108–136, the National Defense 

Authorization Act of 2004. (The 

Commission is required by this law to 

consult with the IOM concerning the 

medical aspects of contemporary 

disability compensation policies.) One 

or more FFRDC(s) will supplement the 

Commission’s work with additional 

resources, surveying capabilities, 

research, study and analysis of the key 

issues and questions that the 

Commission will identify during this 

two-day event. 

Interested persons may attend and 

present oral statements to the 

Commission. Time for oral 

presentations will be limited to five 

minutes or less, depending on the 

number of participants. Interested 

parties may provide written comments 

for review by the Commission prior the 

meeting, by e-mail to: 

veterans@vetscommission.intranets.com 

or by mail to: Mr. Ray Wilburn, 

Executive Director, Veterans’ Disability 

Benefits Commission, 1101 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 5th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

Dated: September 1, 2005. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–17847 Filed 9–8–05; 8:45 am] 

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