[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 231 (Friday, November 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 59842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-29737]


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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 Emily Morgan Hotel, 705 East 
Houston Street, San Antonio, Texas 78205, January 22-25, 2002. The 
meeting will convene from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. on January 22, 2002, from 
8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on January 23 and 24, 2002, and from 8 a.m. until 1 
p.m. on January 25, 2002. 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, and nursing research. 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 (the premature disclosure of which would be likely to 
frustrate significantly the 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 Mr. John 
G. Demakis, Director, Health Services Research and Development Service 
(124F), 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: November 20, 2001.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-29737 Filed 11-29-01; 8:45 am]
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