[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 7829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-1366]


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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 March 13-14, 2006, at the Marriott Crystal 
Gateway Hotel, Arlington, VA. 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 March 13, 2006 
session 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 March 13 
from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on March 14 from 8 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 Public Law 92-463 as amended 
by Section 5(c) of Public Law 94-409.
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact Dr. Denise 
Burton, Federal Designated Officer, Portfolio Manager, Rehabilitation 
Research and Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans 
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 254-
0268.

    Dated: February 3, 2006.

    By direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-1366 Filed 2-13-06; 8:45 am]
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