Solicitation of Nominations for Appointment to the Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee
| Published date | 21 May 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 27682 |
| Record Number | 2021-10698 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Veterans Affairs Department |
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home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/small-
business-programs/state-small-business-
credit-initiative-ssbci/archives/archived-
program-rules) to enable the use of
SSBCI to expand access to capital for
small businesses in the current
economic environment? Responses
should take into consideration the
statutory requirements for CAPs and
OCSPs in the Small Business Jobs Act
and ARPA, and provide feedback
consistent with those constraints.
a. Is guidance specific to Tribal
governments needed? If so, what
specific issues should this guidance
address?
2. What changes should Treasury
make to the policy guidelines last
updated in 2014 (available here: https://
home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/small-
business-programs/state-small-business-
credit-initiative-ssbci/archives/archived-
program-rules) to enable use of SSBCI to
promote access to capital for diverse
businesses, including SEDI businesses
and Very Small Businesses? Please
provide specific examples.
a. What data should Treasury use in
its allocation calculation based on the
needs of SEDI businesses in States,
Territories, and Tribal governments?
Please provide specific examples.
b. What guidance should Treasury
provide regarding identifying and
serving SEDI businesses? Please provide
specific examples.
c. How can Treasury ensure effective
use of allocations to States, Territories,
and Tribal governments to support Very
Small Businesses, including non-
employer businesses? Please provide
specific examples.
3. How should Treasury ensure
effective use of the TA allocation to
support SEDI businesses’ and Very
Small Businesses’ access SSBCI capital
or other capital? Please provide specific
examples.
a. How should Treasury encourage
States, Territories, and Tribal
governments to prioritize contracts to
SEDI businesses to provide TA?
b. How and to what extent should
Treasury work with MBDA to provide
TA to SEDI businesses? Please provide
specific examples.
c. For what purposes should Treasury
directly contract with legal, accounting,
and financial advisory firms to provide
TA to SEDI businesses? Please provide
specific examples.
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from States, Territories, and Tribal
governments in regular reporting on
their performance and activities that
would ensure compliance and provide
meaningful information on results to
inform the public, policymakers, and
others?
5. Do you have any other comments
on the implementation of SSBCI to
improve outcomes in general, and
particularly to serve underserved
communities and groups and SEDI
businesses?
Dated: May 14, 2021.
Jeffrey Stout,
Director, Office of Federal Program Finance.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Solicitation of Nominations for
Appointment to the Geriatrics and
Gerontology Advisory Committee
AGENCY
: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION
: Notice of Geriatrics and
Gerontology Advisory Committee
appointment.
SUMMARY
: The Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA), Office of Geriatrics and
Extended Care, is seeking nominations
of qualified candidates to be considered
for appointment as a member of the
Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory
Committee (herein-after in this section
referred to as ‘‘the Committee’’). The
Committee advises the VA Secretary
and the Under Secretary for Health on
all matters pertaining to geriatrics and
gerontology.
DATES
: Nominations of qualified
candidates are being sought to fill
vacancies on the Committee.
Nominations for membership on the
Committee must be received no later
than 5:00 p.m. EST on June 30, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: All nominations should be
emailed to Marianne Shaughnessy,
Ph.D., CRNP, to
Marianne.Shaughnessy@va.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Marianne Shaughnessy, Ph.D., CRNP,
GGAC, by phone at (202) 407–6798 or
by email at Marianne.Shaughnessy@
va.gov. A copy of the Committee charter
and list of the current membership can
also be obtained by contacting Dr.
Shaughnessy.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The
Committee’s areas of interest include
but are not limited to: (1) Assessing the
capability of VA health care facilities to
respond with the most effective and
appropriate services possible to the
medical, psychological and social needs
of Veterans facing the consequences of
aging, serious illness or disability ; and
(2) advancing scientific knowledge to
meet those needs by enhancing geriatric
care for older Veterans through geriatric
and gerontology research, the training of
health personnel in the provision of
health care to older individuals, and the
development of improved models of
clinical services for older Veterans.
Membership Criteria and
Qualifications: The Committee is
comprised of 12 members in addition to
ex officio members, each of whom have
established interest and considerable
vocation-related experiences bearing on
health care for aging Veterans, including
experience in areas such as: VA- and
non-VA health systems, academic
geriatric and gerontology programs,
palliative medicine, home and
community-based care, nursing home
care, relevant policy issues, and grant-
funded academic research.
The expertise required of GGAC
members includes, but is not limited to,
the following:
a. Familiarity or experience with
clinical and health policies concerning
the elderly; and/or
b. familiarity or experience with the
partnerships between VA and health
sciences academic programs; and/or
c. familiarity with the history of
geriatrics in the VA and in the U.S., and
the unique role that has been played in
that evolution by the VA’s Geriatric
Research, Education, and Clinical
Centers (GRECCs).
Membership Requirements: The
Committee holds at least one face to face
meeting in Washington, DC and
conducts 4–5 site visits a year. The ideal
candidate will be willing to travel 3–5
times per year to help the Committee
fulfill its Chartered objectives.
The Committee’s diverse membership
is characterized by a range of
backgrounds and knowledge sufficiently
broad to provide adequate advice and
guidance to the Secretary. VA strives to
develop a Committee membership that
includes diversity in military services,
ranks, and deployments, military
service, military deployments, working
with Veterans, committee subject matter
expertise, as well as diversity in race/
ethnicity, gender, religion, disability,
geographical background, and
profession. We ask that nominations
include information of this type so that
VA can ensure diverse Committee
membership.
Requirements for Nomination
Submission: Nominations should be
typed (one nomination per nominator).
Self-nominations are acceptable.
Nomination package should include:
(1) A letter of nomination that clearly
states the name and affiliation of the
nominee, the basis for the nomination
(i.e., specific attributes which qualify
the nominee for service in this
capacity), and a statement from the
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nominee indicating the willingness to
serve as a member of the Committee;
(2) The nominee’s contact
information, including name, mailing
address, telephone numbers, and email
address;
(3) The nominee’s curriculum vitae;
and
(4) letters of recommendation are
accepted, but not required; and
(5) a statement confirming that he/she
is not a federally–registered lobbyist.
Individuals selected for appointment
to the Committee shall be invited to
serve a four-year term. Committee
members will receive a stipend for
attending Committee meetings,
including per diem and reimbursement
for travel expenses incurred.
The Department makes every effort to
ensure that the membership of VA
federal advisory committees is diverse
in terms of points of view represented
and the committee’s capabilities.
Appointments to this Committee shall
be made without discrimination because
of a person’s race, color, religion, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, age, disability, or
genetic information. Nominations must
state that the nominee is willing to serve
as a member of the Committee and
appears to have no conflict of interest
that would preclude membership.
Dated: May 17, 2021.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management
Officer.
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VETERANS AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
Reestablishment: Veterans’ Family,
Caregiver and Survivor Advisory
Committee
AGENCY
: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION
: Notice of intent.
SUMMARY
: We are giving notice that the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs intends to
reestablish the Veterans’ Family,
Caregiver and Survivor Advisory
Committee for a 2-year period. The
Secretary has determined that the
Committee is necessary and in the
public interest.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Jeffrey Moragne, Committee
Management Office, Department of
Veterans Affairs, Advisory Committee
Management Office (00AC), 810
Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20420; telephone (202) 266–4660; or
email at Jeffrey.Moragne@va.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: Pursuant
to the Federal Advisory Committee
ACT, notice is hereby given that the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs intends to
reestablish the Veterans’ Family,
Caregiver and Survivor Advisory
Committee for 2 years from the filing
date of the charter’s reestablishment.
The Committee advises the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, through the Chief
Veterans Experience Officer, Veterans
Experience Office in support of the
application of VA’s customer experience
principles to Veterans and their
families, caregivers and survivors. The
advice will be related to Veterans’
families, caregivers, and survivors
across all generations, relationships and
Veteran status; the use, and where
necessary possible expansion, of VA
care, benefits, and memorial services by
Veterans’ families, caregivers and
survivors; policies, regulations and
administrative requirements related to
the transition of Servicemembers from
the Department of Defense (DoD) to
enrollment in VA and the access to and
use of all federal, state and local
services that impact Veterans’ families,
caregivers and survivors; and factors
that influence access to, quality of, and
accountability for care, benefits and
memorial services for Veterans’ families,
caregivers and survivors.
Dated: May 17, 2021.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management
Officer.
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