[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 50144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19912]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit 
Review Board; Notice of Meetings

    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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Career Development Award Program....  August 6, 2013........  VHA National Conference Center.
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic            August 6-7, 2013......  VHA National Conference Center.
 Rehabilitation.
Psychological Health and Social       August 6-7, 2013......  VHA National Conference Center.
 Reintegration.
Regenerative Medicine...............  August 7, 2013........  Department of Education.
Sensory Systems/Communication.......  August 7, 2013........  VHA National Conference Center.
Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease.  August 8, 2013........  VHA National Conference Center.
Career Development Award Program....  August 8, 2013........  VHA National Conference Center.
Spinal Cord Injury..................  August 8, 2013........  * VA Central Office.
Research Career Scientists..........  August 10, 2013.......  * VA Central Office.
Rehabilitation Engineering and        August 13, 2013.......  Department of Education.
 Prosthetics/Orthotics.
Brain Injury: TBI and Stroke........  August 14-15, 2013....  Department of Education.
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    The addresses of the meeting sites are:

Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202.
VA Central Office, 131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 20002. (* 
Teleconference)
VHA National Conference Center, 2011 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 
22202.

    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 meeting 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 (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 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]. Written comments may be 
submitted to Ms. Benton-Grover at the same address and email. For 
further information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.

    Dated: August 12, 2013.

By Direction of the Secretary.
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-19912 Filed 8-15-13; 8:45 am]
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