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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Services 
Research and Development and Rehabilitation Research and Development; 
Meeting

    In Accordance with Public Law 92-463, the Department of Veterans 
Affairs gives notice of a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Scientific Review and Evaluation Board Sub-Committee of the 
Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Services, and 
Rehabilitation Research and Development. This meeting will convene at 
the Vista International Hotel, 1400 ``M'' Street NW, Washington, DC 
July 12 through July 15, 1994. The session on July 12, 1994, is 
scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and end at 10:30 p.m. The sessions on 
July 13, 14, 15, 1994, 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 (to the seating capacity of 
the room) for the July 12 session for the discussion of administrative 
matters, the general status of the program, and the administrative 
details of the review process. On July 13-15, 1994 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, the 
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. 522b(c)(6), and 
(c)(9)(B) and the determination of the Secretary of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs under section 10(d) of Public Law 92-463 as amended by 
section 5(c) of Public Law 94-409.
    Due to the limited seating capacity of the room, those who plan to 
attend the open session should contact Ms. Victoria Mongiardo, 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: May 16, 1994.
Heyard Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-13874 Filed 6-7-94; 8:45 am]
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