[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15917]


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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 Pub. L. 92-463, that a meeting of the Scientific 
Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and 
Development Service will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1250 22nd 
Street, NW, Washington, DC, from June 23 through June 26, 1998. On June 
23, the meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and on June 24 
through June 26, 1998, from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day. The 
purpose of the meeting is to review research and development 
applications 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 
Chief Research and Development Officer (12).
    This meeting will be open to the public at the start of the June 23 
session for approximately one-half 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 the 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 be likely to 
frustrate significantly implementation of proposed agency action 
regarding such research projects. As provided by the subsection 10(d) 
of Pub. L. 92-463, as amended by Pub. L. 94-409, closing portions of 
these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact Mr. E. 
William Judy, MSHA, Review Program Manager (124F), Health Services 
Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, at least five days before the 
meeting. For further information, he can be reached at (202) 273-8254.

    Dated: June 9, 1998.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-15917 Filed 6-15-98; 8:45 am]
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