[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 131 (Monday, July 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 40412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16711]


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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 subcommittees of the 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review 
Board will meet on August 7-9 and 13-15, 2012, at the Sheraton Crystal 
City Hotel, 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA, from 8 a.m. to 
5 p.m. each day, except on August 13, 2012. The Career Development 
Award Program subcommittee will meet on this day from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. 
The following subcommittees of the Board will meet to evaluate merit 
review applications:

August 7 Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease; Rehabilitation 
Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics; and Spinal Cord Injury.
August 7-8 Brain Injury: Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke; 
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic Rehabilitation; and Psychological Health 
and Social Reintegration.
August 9 Rehabilitation Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics; and 
Research Career Scientists.
August 13-15 Career Development Award Program.
August 14 Brain Injury: Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke.
August 14-15 Psychological Health and Social Reintegration; 
Regenerative Medicine; and Sensory Systems/Communication.

    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 will be held on August 7 and 14 from 8 a.m. to 9 
a.m. to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general status 
of the program. This portion of the meeting is open to the public. 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 portion of each subcommittee 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.

    By Direction of the Secretary.

    Dated: July 3, 2012.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-16711 Filed 7-6-12; 8:45 am]
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