[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-2124]



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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 a meeting of the 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review 
Board will be held February 23-25 and March 1-2, 2011, at the 
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, VA, from 
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The following subcommittees of the Board 
will meet to evaluate merit review applications:
    February 23--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics 
Regenerative Medicine.
    February 23-24--Aging & Neurodegenerative Disease Psychological 
Health and Social Reintegration.
    February 23-25--Brain Injury Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic 
Rehabilitation.
    March 1--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics.
    March 1-2--Psychological Health and Social Reintegration; Sensory 
Systems/Communication; Spinal Cord Injury; and Career Development Award 
Program.
    The purpose of the Board is to review rehabilitation research and 
development applications and advise the Director, Rehabilitation 
Research and Development Service, and the Chief Research and 
Development Officer on the scientific and technical merit, the mission 
relevance, and the protection of human and animal subjects.
    A general session of each subcommittee meeting will be open to the 
public for approximately one hour at the start of each meeting to cover 
administrative matters and to discuss the general status of the 
program. The remaining portion of each subcommittee meeting will be 
closed to the public for the discussion, examination, reference to, and 
oral review of the research applications and critiques.
    During the closed potion of each meeting, discussion and 
recommendations will include qualifications of the personnel conducting 
the studies (the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly 
unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), as well as research 
information (the premature disclosure of which would likely compromise 
significantly the implementation of proposed agency action regarding 
such research projects). As provided by subsection 10(d) of Public Law 
92-463, as amended by Public Law 94-409, closing the meeting is in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
    Those who plan to attend the general session should contact Tiffany 
Asqueri, Designated Federal Officer, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service, at Department of Veterans Affairs (122), 810 
Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, or e-mail 
[email protected] at least five days before the meeting. For 
further information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.

    By direction of the Secretary.
    Dated: January 26, 2011.
William F. Russo,
Director of Regulations Management, Office of the General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-2124 Filed 1-31-11; 8:45 am]
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