[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 27 (Friday, February 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9455-9456]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-02806]


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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 the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, that the subcommittees 
of the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit 
Review Board will meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the dates indicated 
below:

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         Subcommittee                Date(s)              Location
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Aging and Neurodegenerative     February 20, 2013  * VA Central Office.
 Disease.
Rehabilitation Engineering and  February 20, 2013  Courtyard DC/U.S.
 Prosthetics/Orthotics.                             Capitol.
Brain Injury: TBI & Stroke....  February 20-21,    * VA Central Office.
                                 2013.
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic      February 20-21,    Paralyzed Veterans of
 Rehabilitation.                 2013.              America.
Psychological Health and        February 20-21,    Paralyzed Veterans of
 Social Reintegration.           2013.              America.
Sensory Systems/Communication.  February 26, 2013  Paralyzed Veterans of
                                                    America.
Regenerative Medicine.........  February 26-27,    Paralyzed Veterans of
                                 2013.              America.
Career Development Award        February 26-28,    *VA Central Office.
 Program and Research Career     2013.
 Scientists.
Spinal Cord Injury............  February 28, 2013  * VA Central Office.
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    The addresses of the meeting sites are:
VA Central Office, 131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 20002 
(*Teleconfernce)
Courtyard DC/U.S. Capitol, 1325 2nd Street NE., Washington, DC 20002.
Paralyzed Veterans of America, 801 Eighteenth Street NW., Washington, 
DC 20006.
    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.
    The subcommittee meetings will be open to the public for 
approximately one-half 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 meetings 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 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

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(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).
    No oral or written comments will be accepted from the public for 
either portion of the meetings. Those who plan to attend the open 
portion of a subcommittee meeting 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 [email protected]. For further 
information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.

    Dated: February 4, 2013.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-02806 Filed 2-7-13; 8:45 am]
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