[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7514-7515]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02628]


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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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Research Career Scientists....  February 20, 2014  * VA Central Office.
Aging & Neurodegenerative       February 25, 2014  VHA National
 Disease.                                           Conference Center.
Psychological Health & Social   February 25, 2014  VHA National
 Reintegration.                                     Conference Center.
Regenerative Medicine.........  February 25, 2014  VHA National
                                                    Conference Center.
Brain Injury: TBI & Stroke....  February 25-26,    VHA National
                                 2014.              Conference Center.
Sensory Systems/Communication   February 26, 2014  VHA National
 Disorders.                                         Conference Center.
Rehabilitation Engineering &    February 27, 2014  VHA National
 Prosthetics/Orthotics.                             Conference Center.
VA-ORD Historically Black       February 27, 2014  * VA Central Office.
 College and University
 Research Scientist Training
 Program.
Career Development Award        February 27-28,    VHA National
 Program.                        2014.              Conference Center.
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic      February 27-28,    VHA National
 Rehabilitation.                 2014.              Conference Center.
Spinal Cord Injury............  March 3, 2014....  * VA Central Office.
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    The addresses of the meeting sites are:

(* Teleconference). VA Central Office, 131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 
20002.
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. Because some of the meetings will be in a Government building, 
anyone attending must be prepared to show a valid photo ID for checking 
in. Please allow 15 minutes before the meeting begins for this process. 
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

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applications and critiques. 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).
    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] at least 5 
days before the meeting. For further information, please call Mrs. 
Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.

    Dated: February 4, 2014.
Jeffrey M. Martin,
Office Manager, Regulation Policy and Management, Office of the General 
Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-02628 Filed 2-6-14; 8:45 am]
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