[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 531-532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-99]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Service, and
Rehabilitation Research and Development Subcommittee on Scientific
Review and Evaluation for Health Services Research and Development,
Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration,
gives notice under Public Law 92-463, that a meeting of the Advisory
Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Service, and Rehabilitation
Research and [[Page 532]] Development Subcommittee on Scientific Review
and Evaluation for Health Services Research and Development will be
held at The Holiday Inn, 7353 E. Indian School Road, Scottsdale, AZ,
January 17 through January 19, 1995. The session on January 17, 1995,
is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. (MST). The
sessions scheduled for January 18 and 19 are scheduled to begin at 8:00
a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. (MST). The purpose of the meeting is to
review research and development applications concerned with the
measurement and evaluation of health care systems and with testing new
methods of health care delivery and management. Applications are
reviewed for scientific and technical merit and recommendations
regarding their funding are prepared for the Associate Chief Medical
Director for Research and Development.
The meeting will be open to the public (to the seating capacity of
the room) at the start of the January 17 session for approximately one
hour to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general status
of the program. The closed portion of the meeting involves discussion,
examination, reference to, and oral review of staff and consultant
critiques of research protocols, and similar documents. During this
portion of the meeting, discussion and recommendations will deal with
qualifications of personnel conducting the studies, the disclosure of
which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy, as well as research information, the premature disclosure of
which would be likely to significantly frustrate implementation of
proposed agency action regarding such research projects. As provided by
subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-409,
closing portions of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
Due to the limited seating capacity of the room, those who plan to
attend the open session should contact Mr. Bill Judy, Review Program
Manager (12B3), Health Services Research and Development Service,
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, (Techworld),
Washington, DC 20420 (phone: 202-523-7425) at least five days before
the meeting.
Dated: December 20, 1994.
By Direction of the Secretary:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-99 Filed 1-3-95; 8:45 am]
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