03-3911. National Eye Institute; Notice of Closed Meeting

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Eye Institute. The meeting will be closed to the public as indicated below in accordance with the provisions set forth in section 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended for the review, discussion, and evaluation of individual intramural programs and projects conducted by the National Eye Institute, including consideration of personnel qualifications and performance, and the competence of individual investigators, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Name of Committee: Board of Scientific Counselors, Natwional Eye Institute.

Date: February 24-25, 2003.

Time: February 24, 2003, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Agenda: To review and evaluate personal qualifications and performance, and competence of individual investigators.

Place: National Eye Institute, Building 31, Room 6A35, 31 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20852.

Time: February 25, 2003, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Agenda: To review and evaluate personal qualifications and performance, and competence of individual investigators.

Place: National Eye Institute, Building 31, Room 6A35, 31 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20852.

Contact Person: Miller S Sheldon, PhD, Scientific Director, National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, [phone].

This notice is being published less than 15 days prior to the meeting due to the urgent need to meet timing limitations imposed by the intramural research review cycle.

Information is also available on the Institute's/Center's home page: www.nei.nih.gov,, where an agenda and any additional information for the meeting will be posted when available.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.867, Vision Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS)

Dated: February 10, 2003.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.