[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 133 (Tuesday, July 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40036-40037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16951]
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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) that the Rehabilitation
Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will
meet on August 16-18, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol
Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, and on August 24-26,
2010, at The Fairfax at Embassy Row, 2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. Various
subcommittees of the Board will meet. Each subcommittee meeting of the
Board will be open to the public the first day for approximately one
half hour from 8.a.m. to 8:30 a.m. to cover administrative matters, the
general status of the program and the administrative details of the
review process. The remaining portion of the meetings will be closed
for the Board's review of research and development applications.
The purpose of the Board 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 reviews involve oral comments, discussion of site visits, staff
and consultant critiques of proposed research protocols, and similar
analytical documents that focus on 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
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efforts. As provided by subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92-463, as
amended, closing portions of the meeting is in accordance with 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(6), and (c)(9)(B).
Those who plan to attend the open sessions should contact Tiffany
Asqueri, Federal Designated Officer, Rehabilitation Research and
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 461-1740, or e-mail at
[email protected].
Dated: July 6, 2010.
By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-16951 Filed 7-12-10; 8:45 am]
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