[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 124 (Friday, June 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 34741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16862]


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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 gives notice under Pub. L. 92-
463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) as amended, by section 5(c) of 
Pub. L. 94-409 that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will be held at the 
Westin City Hotel, 1400 ``M'' Street, NW, Washington, DC, on July 15 
through July 17, 1997.
    The session on July 15, 1997, is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. 
and end at 9:30 p.m. The sessions on July 16 and July 17, 1997, 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 up to the seating capacity 
of the room for the July 15 session for the discussion of 
administrative matters, the general status of the program, and the 
administrative details of the review process. On July 16 and July 17, 
1997, 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. 552b(c)(6), and 
(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.
    Those who plan to attend the open session should write to Ms. 
Victoria Mongiardo (117), 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: June 23, 1997.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-16862 Filed 6-26-97; 8:45 am]
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