[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 47264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22696]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Nursing Research Initiative Subcommittee of the 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 Nursing 
Research Initiative Subcommittee of the Scientific Review and 
Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and Development Service 
will be held at the Madison Hotel, 15th Street, NW., Washington, DC, on 
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. The purpose 
of the meeting is to review nursing research applications that identify 
effective methods for improving, maintaining, and/or preventing decline 
in the functional status of patients; develop and test models that 
integrate patient care delivery and enhance health outcomes; and 
improve patient care. 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 
September 11 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 Ms. Martha 
R. Bryan, Review Program Manager, Health Services Research and 
Development Service (124F), Department of Veterans Affairs, 1400 I 
Street, NW., Suite 780, Washington, DC, prior to the meeting. For 
further information, call (202) 408-3661.

    Dated: August 31, 2001.

By Direction of the Secretary.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
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