96-667. Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, Notice of Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1665-1666]
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[FR Doc No: 96-667]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit 
Review Board, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) as amended, by section 5(c) of 
Public Law 94-409 that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will be held at the 
Vista International Hotel, 1400 ``M'' Street NW, Washington, DC on 
January 23 through January 25, 1996.
    The session on January 23, 1996, is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. 
and end at 9:30 p.m. The sessions on January 24 and January 25, 1996, 
are scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. The purpose of the 
meeting is to review rehabilitation research and development 
applications for scientific and technical merit and to make 
recommendations to the Director, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service, regarding their funding.
    The meeting will be open to the public up to the seating capacity 
of the room for the January 23 session for discussion of administrative 
matters, the general status of the program, and the administrative 
details of the review process. On January 23-25, 1996 the meeting is 
closed during which the Board will be reviewing research and 
development applications.
    This review involves oral comments, discussion of site visits, 
staff and consultant critiques of proposed research protocols, and 
similar 

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analytical documents that necessitate the consideration of the personal 
qualifications, performance and competence of individual research 
investigators. Disclosure of such information would constitute a 
clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Disclosure would also 
reveal research proposals and research underway which could lead to the 
loss of these projects to third parties and thereby frustrate future 
agency research efforts.
    Thus, the closing is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 522b(c)(6), and 
(c)(9)(B) and the determination of the Secretary of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs under Sections 10(d) of Public Law 92-463 as amended 
by Section 5(c) of Public Law 94-409.

    Dated: January 11, 1996.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-667 Filed 1-19-96; 8:45 am]
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