[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 36 (Friday, February 22, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12422-12423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04049]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit 
Review Board, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, 5 United States Code Appendix 2, that the 
Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit 
Review Board will conduct telephone conference call and web-conference 
based meetings of its six Health Services Research (HSR) subcommittees 
and its Nursing Research Initiative (NRI) subcommittee. The HSR 
subcommittees are: HSR 1--Medical Care and Clinical Management; HSR 2--
Patient and Special Population

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Determinants of Health and Care; HSR 3--Methods and Modeling for 
Research, Informatics, and Surveillance; HSR 4--Mental and Behavioral 
Health; HSR 5--Health Care System Organization and Delivery, and HSR 
6--Post-acute and Long-term Care. The telephone conference call of its 
NRI subcommittee will be held on March 1, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
The HSR subcommittee meetings will be held on March 5-6, 2013, from 8 
a.m. to 6 p.m. Each of these meetings will originate from offices 
within the Office of Research and Development, 131 M Street NE., 
Washington, DC.
    The purpose of the Board is to review health services research and 
development applications involving the measurement and evaluation of 
health care services, the testing of new methods of health care 
delivery and management, and nursing research. Applications are 
reviewed for scientific and technical merit, mission relevance, and the 
protection of human and animal subjects. Recommendations regarding 
funding are submitted to the Chief Research and Development Officer.
    Each subcommittee meeting of the Board will be open to the public 
at the start of the first day of the meetings for approximately one 
half-hour to cover administrative matters and to discuss the general 
status of the program. The remaining portion of each subcommittee 
meeting will be closed for the discussion, examination, reference, and 
oral review of the intramural research proposals and critiques. During 
the closed portion of each subcommittee meeting, discussion and 
recommendations will include qualifications of the personnel conducting 
the studies as well as research information. The disclosure of this 
information would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal 
privacy, and the premature disclosure of research information could 
significantly compromise 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 participate on a 
telephone conference call during the open portion of a subcommittee 
meeting should contact Ms. Kristy Benton-Grover, Designated Federal 
Officer and Program Manager, Scientific Merit Review Board, Department 
of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service 
(10P9H), 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 20420. For further 
information, please call Mrs. Benton-Grover at (202) 443-5728 or by 
email at [email protected].

    Dated: February 15, 2013.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-04049 Filed 2-21-13; 8:45 am]
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