[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 146 (Friday, July 30, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 45884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17414]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit 
Review Board; Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Pub. L. 92-
463 (Federal Advisory Committee act) that a meeting of the 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review 
board will be held on August 30-September 2, 2004, at the Sofitel 
Hotel, 806 15th Street, NW., Washington, DC. The sessions are scheduled 
to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. each day.
    The purpose of the Board is to review rehabilitation research and 
development applications for scientific and technical merit and to make 
recommendations to the Director, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service, regarding their funding.
    The meeting will be open to the public for the August 30 and 
September 1 sessions from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. for the discussion of 
administrative matters, the general status of the program and the 
administrative details of the review process. The meeting will be 
closed on August 30-September 2 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the 
Board's review of research and development applications.
    This review involves oral comments, discussion of site visits, 
staff and consultant critiques of proposed research protocols, and 
similar analytical documents that necessitate the consideration of the 
personal qualifications, performance and competence of individual 
research investigators. Disclosure of such information would constitute 
a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Disclosure would 
also reveal research proposals and research underway which could lead 
to the loss of these projects to third parties and thereby frustrate 
future agency research efforts.
    Thus, the closing is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6), and 
(c)(9)(B) and the determination of the Secretary of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs under sections 10(d) of Pub. L. 92-463 as amended by 
section 5(c) of Pub. L. 94-409.
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact Ms. 
Victoria Mongiardo, Program Analyst, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 254-0054.

    Dated: July 22, 2004.
E. Philip Riggin
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-17414 Filed 7-29-04; 8:45 am]
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