[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 133 (Tuesday, July 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40036-40037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16951]


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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 August 16-18, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol 
Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, and on August 24-26, 
2010, at The Fairfax at Embassy Row, 2100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. Various 
subcommittees of the Board will meet. Each subcommittee meeting of the 
Board will be open to the public the first day for approximately one 
half hour from 8.a.m. to 8:30 a.m. to cover administrative matters, the 
general status of the program and the administrative details of the 
review process. The remaining portion of the meetings will be closed 
for the Board's review of research and development applications.
    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 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

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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 Tiffany 
Asqueri, Federal Designated Officer, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, at (202) 461-1740, or e-mail at 
[email protected].

    Dated: July 6, 2010.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-16951 Filed 7-12-10; 8:45 am]
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