[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 43057]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16310]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Health Services Research and Development Service Merit Review 
Board, 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 
Health Services Research and Development Service Merit Review Board 
will be held September 20-22, 2004, at the Washington Marriott, 1221 
22nd Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037. On September 20, the Nursing 
Research Initiative (NRI) review will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 
p.m. and the orientation session will be conducted from 7 p.m. to 9 
p.m. On September 21-22, the Investigator Initiated Research and 
Service Directed Project (IRR/SDP) reviews will be held from 8 a.m. to 
5 p.m. both days.
    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 September 20, 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 September 20-22 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 99-
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 (124S), 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: July 13, 2004.


    By Direction of the Secretary:
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-16310 Filed 7-16-04; 8:45 am]
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