[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 18680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06978]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Rehabilitation Research and Development 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 a meeting of the 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review 
Board will be held on April 9, 2013, in Room 23 at 131 M Street NE., 
Washington, DC, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to evaluate Rehabilitation 
Research and Development Center of Excellence and Research Enhancement 
Award Program applications.
    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 meeting will be open to the public for approximately one-half 
hour at the start to cover administrative matters and to discuss the 
general status of the program. The remaining portion of the 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 meeting.
    During the closed potion of the 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 open portion of the 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] at least five days before the meeting. For 
further information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.

    Dated: March 21, 2013.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-06978 Filed 3-26-13; 8:45 am]
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