[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 225 (Friday, November 21, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 65764]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-29108]


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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 (VA) 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 Bahia Hotel, 998 West Mission 
Bay Drive, San Diego, California, from January 20-23, 2003. The 
Investigator Initiated Research and Service Directed Project (IIR/SDP) 
reviews will convene from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21 and 
Thursday, January 22, 2004. The Nursing Research Initiative (NR) review 
will convene on Friday, January 23, 2004, from 8 a.m.-12 noon.
    The purpose of the Board 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.
    On January 20, 2004, the meeting will be open to the public for 
approximately one half-hour from 7 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. to cover 
administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the 
program. The remaining portion of the meeting on January 20-23, 2004 
will be closed. 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 compromise significantly the implementation of 
proposed agency action regarding such research projects).
    As provided by 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. 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, 1722 Eye 
Street, NW., Washington, DC, at least five days before the meeting. For 
further information, call (202) 254-0207.

    Dated: November 17, 2003.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-29108 Filed 11-20-03; 8:45 am]
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