[Federal Register: March 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 40)]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 
Scientific Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services 
Research and Development Service, Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, 
gives notice under Pub. L. 92-463, that a meeting of the Scientific 
Review and Evaluation Board for Health Services Research and 
Development Service will be held at the Omni Ambassador East, 1301 
North State Parkway, Chicago, IL, June 24 through 26, 1999, from 8:00 
a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day. The purpose of the meeting is to review 
research and development applications concerned with the measurement 
and evaluation of health care services and with testing new methods of 
health care delivery and management. Applications are reviewed for 
scientific and technical merit. Recommendations regarding funding are 
prepared for the Chief Research and Development Officer.
    This meeting will be open to the public at the start of the June 24 
session for approximately one half-hour to cover administrative matters 
and to discuss the general status of the program. The closed portion of 
the meeting involves discussion, examination, reference to, and oral 
review of staff and consultant critiques of research protocols and 
similar documents. During this portion 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 be likely to 
frustrate significantly implementation of proposed agency action 
regarding such research projects). As provided by the subsection 10(d) 
of Pub. L. 92-463, as amended by Pub. L. 94-409, closing portions of 
these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
    Those who plan to attend the open session should contact the Review 
Program Manager (124F), Health Services Research and Development 
Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C., at least five days before the meeting. For further 
information, call (202) 273-8287.

    Dated: February 22, 1999.

By Direction of the Secretary:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-5073 Filed 3-1-99; 8:45 am]
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