[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38702-38703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-18380]
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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
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(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 Crowne Plaza
Hotel, 1001 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC on July 28 through July 29,
1999.
The session on July 28th and July 29th, are scheduled to begin at
8:30 a.m. and end at 6:30 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 for the July 28th session
from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. for the discussion of administrative matters,
the general status of the program, and the administrative details of
the review process. On July 28th, from 9 a.m. through July 29th, 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 would 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
(c)(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 contact Ms.
Victoria Mongiardo, Program Analyst, Rehabilitation Research and
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20420, phone (202) 275-0023.
Dated: July 13, 1999.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Marvin R. Eason,
Acting, Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-18380 Filed 7-16-99; 8:45 am]
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