[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 45828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18687]


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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 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 Service Scientific Merit Review Board will be held at the 
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1001 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC on August 1, 
2000 through August 2, 2000.
    The sessions on August 1 and August 2, 2000, are scheduled to begin 
at 8:30 a.m. and end at 6:30 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 for the August 1 session 
from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. for the discussion of administrative matters, 
the general status of the program, and the administrative details of 
the review process. On August 1 from 9 a.m. through August 2, 2000, 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 
(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.
    Those who plan to attend the open sessions should write to Ms. 
Victoria Mongiardo, Program Analyst, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20420 (Phone: 202-408-3684) at least five 
days before the meeting.

    Dated: July 17, 2000.
    By direction of the Secretary.
Marvin R. Eason,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-18687 Filed 7-24-00; 8:45 am]
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