[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 13 (Thursday, January 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 3542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1001]


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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 the Rehabilitation 
Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board will 
meet on March 1-2, 2010, and March 3-4, 2010, at the Marriott 
Washington Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, 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 sessions on March 1 and 4 will be open to the public 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 sessions will be closed as follows for the Board's 
review of research and development applications:

March 1--from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
March 2--from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
March 4--from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
March 5--from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

    The reviews involves 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 positions 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 Tiffany 
Asqueri, Federal Designated Officer, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, or at (202) 461-1740.

    Dated: January 14, 2010.

    By direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-1001 Filed 1-20-10; 8:45 am]
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