Meetings: Cemeteries and Memorials Advisory Committee,

[Federal Register: April 30, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 83)]

[Notices]

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DEPARMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials, Notice of Meeting

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice that a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and Memorials (Committee), authorized by 38 U.S.C. 2401, will be held Tuesday, June 23 and Wednesday, June 24, 1998, at the Handlery Hotel and Resort, 950 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA, 92108. This will be the committee's first meeting of the year 1998.

The purpose of the Committee is to review the administration of VA's cemeteries and burial benefits program. On Tuesday, June 23, 1998, the meeting will convene at 2:00 p.m. (PDT) and adjourn at 7:00 p.m. (PDT). On Wednesday, June 24, 1998, the meeting will convene at 8:00 p.m. (PDT) and adjourn at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).

On Tuesday, June 23, there will be a business session at the Handlery Hotel and Resort in the Club Room. The Committee will then depart for Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Cabrillo Memorial Drive, in the town of Point Loma, San Diego, CA 92106, for a tour and an equipment show.

On the morning of June 24, the Committee will meet at the Handlery Hotel and Resort, in the Director Room, where they will receive presentations from Ex-Officio Committee members. In the afternoon, the Committee will attend a Best Practices Panel with cemetery directors, in the Crystal Room. After the Best Practices Panel, the Committee will meet, in the Director Room, for a business session and an update briefing on National Cemetery System activities.

The meeting will be open to the public. Those wishing to attend should contact Ms. Louise Ware, Special Assistant to the Director, National Cemetery System, (phone (202) 273-7577) no later than 12 noon (EST), June 15, 1998.

Any interested person may attend, appear before, or file a statement with the Committee. Individuals wishing to appear before the Committee should indicate this in a letter to the Acting Director, National Cemetery System (40) at 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 20420. In any such letters, the writers must fully identify themselves and state the organization, association or person they represent. In addition, to the extent practicable, letters should indicate the subject matter they want to discuss. Oral presentations should be limited to 10 minutes in duration. Those wishing to file written statements to be submitted to the Committee must also mail, or otherwise deliver, them to the Acting Director, National Cemetery System.

Letters and written statements as discussed above must be mailed or delivered in time to reach the Acting Director, National Cemetery System, by 12 noon (EST), June 15, 1998. Oral statements will be heard between 1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. (PDT), June 24, 1998, at the Handlery Hotel.

Dated: April 23, 1998.

By Direction of the Acting Secretary. Heyward Bannister, Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 98-11467Filed4-29-98; 8:45 am]

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