[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1060-1061]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-15]


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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 5-8, 2007, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott 
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 5 and March 7, 
2007 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 March 5 and 7, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 5:30

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p.m. and on March 6 and 8, 2007 from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the 
Board's review of research and development applications.
    The Board's review of applications 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 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 sessions should contact Dr. 
Denise Burton, Designated Federal 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: December 27, 2006.
    By Direction of the Secretary.
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 07-15 Filed 1-8-07; 8:45 am]
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