[Federal Register: July 19, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 137)]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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

    The Department of Veterans Affairs gives notice under Pub. L. 92-
463

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(Federal Advisory Committee Act) as amended, by section 5(c) of Pub. L. 
94-409 that a meeting of the Rehabilitation Research and Development 
Service Scientific Merit Review Board will be held at the Crowne Plaza 
Hotel, 1001 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC on July 28 through July 29, 
1999.
    The session on July 28th and July 29th, are scheduled to begin at 
8:30 a.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to review 
rehabilitation research and development applications for scientific and 
technical merit and to make recommendations to the Director, 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, regarding their 
funding.
    The meeting will be open to the public for the July 28th session 
from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. for the discussion of administrative matters, 
the general status of the program, and the administrative details of 
the review process. On July 28th, from 9 a.m. through July 29th, the 
meeting is closed during which the Board will be reviewing research and 
development applications.
    This review involves oral comments, discussion of site visits, 
staff and consultant critiques of proposed research protocols, and 
similar analytical documents that necessitate the consideration of the 
personal qualifications, performance and competence of individual 
research investigators. Disclosure of such information would constitute 
a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Disclosure would 
also reveal research proposals and research underway which would lead 
to the loss of these projects to third parties and thereby frustrate 
future agency research efforts.
    Thus, the closing is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6), and 
(c)(9)(B) and the determination of the Secretary of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs under sections 10(d) of Pub. L. 92-463 as amended by 
section 5(c) of Pub. L. 94-409.
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact Ms. 
Victoria Mongiardo, Program Analyst, Rehabilitation Research and 
Development Service (122P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20420, phone (202) 275-0023.

    Dated: July 13, 1999.

    By Direction of the Secretary.
Marvin R. Eason,
Acting, Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-18380 Filed 7-16-99; 8:45 am]
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