[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 116 (Friday, June 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32663-32664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15180]


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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 Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul 
Hotel from June 25 through 27, 2001. On June 25, 2001, the meeting will 
convene from 7-9 p.m. and on June 26 through June 27 from 8 a.m. until 
5 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to review research and development

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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 June 25 
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 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 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: May 17, 2001.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
Ventris C. Gibson,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-15180 Filed 6-14-01; 8:45 am]
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