[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 36674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-13099]


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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 gives notice under Public Law 
92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that a meeting of the 
Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and 
Development Service will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 14th and K 
Streets, NW., Washington, DC, from June 19 through 21, 2002. The 
Nursing Research Initiative review will convene on June 19, from 1 p.m. 
until 5 p.m. The investigator Initiated Research review will convene on 
June 19, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m., on June 20, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. 
and on June 21, from 8 a.m. until 4 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, 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 June 19 
session for approximately one half-hour to cover administrative matters 
and to discuss the general status of 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 Public Law 92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-409, closing portions 
of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(c)(6) and (9)(B).
    Those who are planning to attend the open session or wishing 
further information should contact Dr. Martha Bryan, Assistant 
Director, Scientific Review (124F), Health Services Research and 
Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 1400 Eye Street, 
NW., Suite 780, Washington, DC at (202) 408-3665.

    Dated: May 20, 2002.
Nora E. Egan,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-13099 Filed 5-23-02; 8:45 am]
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