[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 125 (Thursday, June 30, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37899-37900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12957]


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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 Public Law 
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 22-25, 2005, at the Hamilton Crowne Plaza 
Hotel, 14th & K Streets 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 22 and August 
24 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 22-
August 25 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 the Public Law 92-463 as 
amended by Section 5(c) of the Public Law 94-109.
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact Dr. Denise 
Burton, Portfolio Manager, Rehabilitation Research and Development 
Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 254-0068

    Dated: June 21, 2005.


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    By direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-12957 Filed 6-29-05; 8:45 am]
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