[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 33 (Friday, February 17, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9731-9732]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3741]


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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 on March 6-8 and 13-14, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency 
Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, 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:
    March 6--Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease.
    March 6-7--Brain Injury: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Stroke; 
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic Rehabilitation; Psychological Health and 
Social Reintegration; and Regenerative Medicine.
    March 6-8--Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics.
    March 7--Career Development Award Program.
    March 13--Spinal Cord Injury.
    March 13-14--Brain Injury: TBI and Stroke; Career Development Award 
Program; Psychological Health and Social Reintegration; and Sensory 
Systems/Communication.

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    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. No oral or 
written comments will be accepted from the public for either portion of 
the meetings.
    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 (10P9R), 810 
Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20420, or email at 
[email protected]. For further information, please call Mrs. 
Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.

    Dated: February 13, 2012.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-3741 Filed 2-16-12; 8:45 am]
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