[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 124 (Friday, June 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 34741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16862]
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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 Pub. L. 92-
463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) as amended, by section 5(c) of
Pub. L. 94-409 that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and
Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will be held at the
Westin City Hotel, 1400 ``M'' Street, NW, Washington, DC, on July 15
through July 17, 1997.
The session on July 15, 1997, is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
and end at 9:30 p.m. The sessions on July 16 and July 17, 1997, 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 July 15 session for the discussion of
administrative matters, the general status of the program, and the
administrative details of the review process. On July 16 and July 17,
1997, 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 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. 552b(c)(6), and
(9)(B) and the determination of the Secretary of the Department of
Veterans Affairs under Sections 10(d) of Pub. L. 92-463 as amended by
Section 5(c) of Pub. L. 94-409.
Those who plan to attend the open session should write to Ms.
Victoria Mongiardo (117), Program Analyst, Rehabilitation Research and
Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 103 South Gay
Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Phone (410) 962-2563) at least five
days before the meeting.
Dated: June 23, 1997.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-16862 Filed 6-26-97; 8:45 am]
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