[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-2124]
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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 February 23-25 and March 1-2, 2011, at the
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The following subcommittees of the Board
will meet to evaluate merit review applications:
February 23--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics
Regenerative Medicine.
February 23-24--Aging & Neurodegenerative Disease Psychological
Health and Social Reintegration.
February 23-25--Brain Injury Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic
Rehabilitation.
March 1--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics.
March 1-2--Psychological Health and Social Reintegration; Sensory
Systems/Communication; Spinal Cord Injury; and Career Development Award
Program.
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.
A general session of each subcommittee meeting will be open to the
public for approximately one hour at the start of each meeting to cover
administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the
program. The remaining portion of each subcommittee meeting will be
closed to the public for the discussion, examination, reference to, and
oral review of the research applications and critiques.
During the closed potion of each meeting, 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).
Those who plan to attend the general session should contact Tiffany
Asqueri, Designated Federal Officer, Rehabilitation Research and
Development Service, at Department of Veterans Affairs (122), 810
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, or e-mail
[email protected] at least five days before the meeting. For
further information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.
By direction of the Secretary.
Dated: January 26, 2011.
William F. Russo,
Director of Regulations Management, Office of the General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-2124 Filed 1-31-11; 8:45 am]
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