[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 218 (Thursday, November 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 67476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28703]



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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 a meeting of the Nursing 
Research Initiative Subcommittee of the Scientific Review and 
Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and Development Service 
will be held at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW, 
Washington, DC 20005, on March 6, 2001. On March 6, 2001, the meeting 
will convene 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 March 6 
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 (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 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 Health 
Services Research and Development Assistant Director, Scientific Review 
(124F), Health Services Research and Development Service, Department of 
Veterans Affairs, 1400 I Street, NW, Suite 780, Washington, D.C., at 
least five days before the meeting. For further information, call (202) 
408-3665.

    Dated: November 1, 2000.

    By Direction of the Acting Secretary
Marvin R. Eason,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-28703 Filed 11-8-00; 8:45 am]
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