[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 27 (Friday, February 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9455-9456]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-02806]
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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 (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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Aging and Neurodegenerative February 20, 2013 * VA Central Office.
Disease.
Rehabilitation Engineering and February 20, 2013 Courtyard DC/U.S.
Prosthetics/Orthotics. Capitol.
Brain Injury: TBI & Stroke.... February 20-21, * VA Central Office.
2013.
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic February 20-21, Paralyzed Veterans of
Rehabilitation. 2013. America.
Psychological Health and February 20-21, Paralyzed Veterans of
Social Reintegration. 2013. America.
Sensory Systems/Communication. February 26, 2013 Paralyzed Veterans of
America.
Regenerative Medicine......... February 26-27, Paralyzed Veterans of
2013. America.
Career Development Award February 26-28, *VA Central Office.
Program and Research Career 2013.
Scientists.
Spinal Cord Injury............ February 28, 2013 * VA Central Office.
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The addresses of the meeting sites are:
VA Central Office, 131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 20002
(*Teleconfernce)
Courtyard DC/U.S. Capitol, 1325 2nd Street NE., Washington, DC 20002.
Paralyzed Veterans of America, 801 Eighteenth Street NW., Washington,
DC 20006.
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 meetings 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
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(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]. For further
information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.
Dated: February 4, 2013.
By Direction of the Secretary:
Vivian Drake,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-02806 Filed 2-7-13; 8:45 am]
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