[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 56187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27485]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services 
Research and Development Service, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, 
gives notice under Public Law 92-463, that the subcommittee for Small 
Investigator-Initiated Research (S-IIR) will hold a meeting at the 
Boston VA Medical Center HSR&D Conference Room, 150 S. Huntington 
Avenue, Boston, MA, on November 16, 1995. The meeting is scheduled to 
begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is 
to review research and development applications (with budgets less than 
$100,000) concerned with the measurement and evaluation of health care 
systems and with testing new methods of health care delivery and 
management. Applications are reviewed for scientific and technical 
merit. Recommendations regarding their funding are prepared for the 
Associate Chief Medical Director for Research and Development.
    This meeting will be open to the public (to the seating capacity of 
the room) for approximately one hour to cover administrative matters 
and to discuss the general status of the program. The closed portion of 
the meeting involves discussion, examination, reference to, and oral 
review of staff and consultant critiques of research protocols, and 
similar documents. During this portion of the meeting, discussion and 
recommendations will deal with qualifications of 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 be likely to 
significantly frustrate implementation of proposed agency action 
regarding such research projects. As provided by the subsection 10(d) 
of Public Law 92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-409, closing portions 
of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
    Due to the limited seating capacity of the room, those who plan to 
attend the open session should contact Mr. Bill Judy, Review Program 
Manager (12B3), Health Services Research and Development Service, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, (Techworld), 
Washington, DC 20420 (phone: 202.565.7425) at least five days before 
the meeting.

    Dated: October 30, 1995.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-27485 Filed 11-6-95; 8:45 am]
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