[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 122 (Friday, June 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 30688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-15106]


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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 (VA) gives notice under Public 
Law 92-463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) that the Rehabilitation 
Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will 
meet on August 25-26, 2009, at the Madison Hotel, 1177 15th Street, 
NW., Washington, DC, from 8 a.m. until 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 August 25 session will be open to the public from 8 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 
meetings will be closed as follows for the Board's review of research 
and development applications:

August 25: From 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
August 26: From 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
    The reviews involve oral comments, discussion of site visits, staff 
and consultant critiques of proposed research protocols, and similar 
analytical documents that focus on 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. As provided by subsection 10(d) of Public Law 
92-463, as amended, closing portions of the meeting is in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6), and (c)(9)(B).
    Those who plan to attend the open sessions should contact Ricardo 
Gonzalez, Administrative Officer, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service (122), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 461-1750.

    Dated: June 22, 2009.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
E. Philip Riggin,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-15106 Filed 6-25-09; 8:45 am]
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