[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32576-32577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14037]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of 
Meeting

    Pursuant to section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the NIH

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Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB). The meeting will be open to 
the public through teleconference at the number listed below.
    The NIH Reform Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-482) provides 
organizational authorities to HHS and NIH officials to: (1) establish 
or abolish national research institutes; (2) reorganize the offices 
within the Office of the Director, NIH including adding, removing, or 
transferring the functions of such offices or establishing or 
terminating such offices; and (3) reorganize, divisions, centers, or 
other administrative units within an NIH national research institute or 
national center including adding, removing, or transferring the 
functions of such units, or establishing or terminating such units. The 
purpose of the SMRB is to advise appropriate HHS and NIH officials on 
the use of these organizational authorities and identify the reasons 
underlying the recommendations.

    Name of Committee: Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB).
    Date: July 6, 2015.
    Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET (Times are approximate and 
subject to change).
    Agenda: At this meeting, the SMRB Working Group on the NIH Grant 
Review, Award, and Management Process will report their findings and 
recommendations on ways to streamline the grant award process, and 
present the Board with a draft of the Report on this topic. The SMRB 
members will deliberate the findings and recommendations developed 
by the Working Group and vote on whether to approve the Report. Time 
will be allotted on the agenda for public comment. To sign up for 
public comment, please submit your name and affiliation to the 
contact person listed below by 5:00 p.m. EST, June 29, 2015. Sign up 
will be restricted to one sign up per email. In the event that time 
does not allow for all those interested to present oral comments, 
anyone may file written comments using the contact person address 
below.
    Place: National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, 
NIH, Office of Science Policy, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, 
Bethesda, MD 20892 (Telephone Conference Call).
    Call-in Information: Toll-Free Number: 1- 888-603-9605. 
Participant Passcode: 9573616.
    Contact Person: Sarah Rhodes, Office of Science Policy, Office 
of the Director, NIH, National Institutes of Health, 6705 Rockledge 
Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20892, [email protected], (301) 443-
5851.
    The draft meeting agenda and other information about the SMRB, 
including information about access to the webcast, will be available 
prior to the meeting at http://smrb.od.nih.gov.
    The teleconference will include opportunity for public comment, 
time allowing. In addition, any interested person may file written 
comments with the committee via email or regular mail. Comments via 
email should be sent to [email protected] with ``SMRB Public 
Comment'' as the subject line, and comments via regular mail should 
be sent to 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20892, 
Attention: Sarah Rhodes. Comments should include the name, address, 
telephone number and, when applicable, the business or professional 
affiliation of the commenter. Written comments will be provided to 
SMRB members; those received by 5:00 p.m. EST, June 29, 2015, will 
be shared with the members prior to the meeting.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.14, 
Intramural Research Training Award; 93.22, Clinical Research Loan 
Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds; 
93.232, Loan Repayment Program for Research Generally; 93.39, 
Academic Research Enhancement Award; 93.936, NIH Acquired 
Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Loan Repayment Program; 93.187, 
Undergraduate Scholarship Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged 
Backgrounds, National Institutes of Health, HHS)


    Dated: June 4, 2015.
Melanie J. Gray,
Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-14037 Filed 6-8-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4140-01-P