[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52474-52475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22049]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


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

    The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, 
gives notice under Public Law 92-463, that a meeting of the Scientific 
Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and 
Development Service will be held at The San Francisco Marriott 
Fisherman's Wharf, 1200 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133, 
January 22-24, 2001. On January 22, the meeting will convene from 5:30 
p.m. until 9 p.m. and on January 23 through January 24 from 8 a.m. 
until 5 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to review research and 
development applications concerned with the measurement and evaluation 
of health care services and with testing new methods of health care 
delivery and management. Applications are reviewed for scientific and 
technical merit. Recommendations regarding funding are prepared for the 
Chief Research and Development Officer.
    This meeting will be open to the public at the start of the January 
22 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 include 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

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(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 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).
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact the 
Assistant Director, Scientific Review (124F), Health Services Research 
and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 1400 I Street, 
NW., Suite 780, Washington, DC, at least five days before the meeting. 
For further information, call (202) 408-3665.

    Dated: August 22, 2000.

    By Direction of the Acting Secretary.
Marvin R. Eason,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-22049 Filed 8-28-00; 8:45 am]
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