[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 227 (Friday, November 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 72872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29758]


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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 (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review 
Board will be held on December 13-14, 2010, at the Hilton Alexandria 
Old Town, 1767 King Street, Alexandria, VA, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each 
day. Various subcommittees of the Board will meet to evaluate Center of 
Excellence and Research Enhancement Award Program applications. Each 
subcommittee meeting of the Board will be open to the public the first 
day for approximately one hour from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. to cover 
administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the 
program. The remaining portion of the meetings will be closed. The 
closed portion of each meeting will involve discussion, examination, 
reference to, and oral review of the applications and critiques.
    The purpose of the Board is to review rehabilitation research and 
development applications and advise the Director, Rehabilitation 
Research and Development Service, and the Chief Research and 
Development Officer on the scientific and technical merit, the mission 
relevance, and the protection of human and animal subjects.
    During the meetings, discussion and recommendations will include 
qualifications of the 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 likely compromise significantly the 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 the meeting is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and 
(9)(B).
    For further information, please contact Tiffany Asqueri, Designated 
Federal Officer, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, 
Department of Veterans Affairs (122P), 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20420, or phone at (202) 461-1740 or e-mail at 
[email protected].

    Dated: November 22, 2010.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-29758 Filed 11-24-10; 8:45 am]
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