[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 66371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-9184]


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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 December 11-12, 2006, at the Sofitel Lafayette 
Hotel, 806 15th Street, NW., Washington, DC. The meeting sessions will 
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 on December 11, 2006 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 December 11, 2006 from 9 
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on December 12, 2006 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 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 Section 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 Denise 
Burton, PhD, Federal Designated Officer, Portfolio Manager, 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service (122), Department of 
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, at 
(202) 254-0268.

    Dated: October 31, 2006.

    By direction of the Secretary
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-9184 Filed 11-13-06; 8:45 am]
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