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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

Rehabilitation Research and Development Scientific Review and 
Evaluation Board Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Cooperative 
Studies, and Health Services and Rehabilitation Research and 
Development; Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) as amended, by section 5(c) of 
Public Law 94-409 that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Scientific Review and Evaluation Board Subcommittee of the 
Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, and Health Services and 
Rehabilitation Research and Development will be held at the Vista 
International Hotel, 1400 ``M'' Street NW., Washington, DC, on January 
10 through January 13, 1995.
    The session on January 10, 1995, is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. 
and end at 9:30 p.m. The sessions on January 11, 12, 13, 1995, 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 Services, regarding their funding.
    The meeting will be open to the public up to the seating capacity 
of the room for the January 10 session for the discussion of 
administrative matters, the general status of the program, and the 
administrative details of the review process. On January 11-13, 1995 
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 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 Sections 10(d) of Pub. L. 92-463 as amended by 
Section 5(c) of Pub. L. 94-409.
    Due to the limited seating capacity of the room, those who plan to 
attend the open session should write to 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: December 12, 1994.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-31671 Filed 12-23-94; 8:45 am]
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