[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 243 (Monday, December 19, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-30367]
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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 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the dates
indicated below:
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Subcommittee Date(s) Location
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Psychological Health & Social February 28, 2017...................... VHA National Conference
Reintegration. Center.
Rehabilitation Engineering & Prosthetics/ February 28, 2017...................... VHA National Conference
Orthotics. Center.
Sensory Systems/Communication Disorders.. February 28, 2017...................... VHA National Conference
Center.
Spinal Cord Injury....................... February 28, 2017...................... VHA National Conference
Center.
Regenerative Medicine.................... March 1, 2017.......................... VHA National Conference
Center.
Career Development Award Program......... March 1-2, 2017........................ VHA National Conference
Center.
Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic............... March 1-2, 2017........................ VHA National Conference
Center.
Aging & Neurodegenerative Disease........ March 2, 2017.......................... VHA National Conference
Center.
Brain Injury: TBI & Stroke............... March 2-3, 2017........................ VHA National Conference
Center.
VA-ORD Historically Black College and March 3, 2017.......................... *VA Central Office.
University Research Scientist Training
Program.
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The addresses of the meeting sites are:
(*Teleconference). VA Central Office, 1100 First Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20002. VHA National Conference Center, 2011 Crystal
Drive, Arlington, VA22202.
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. Members of the public who wish to attend the open portion of
the teleconference sessions may dial (800) 767-1750, participant code
35847. 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 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 Ms. Tiffany Asqueri,
Designated Federal Officer, Rehabilitation Research and Development
Service, at Department of Veterans Affairs (10P9R), 810 Vermont Avenue
NW., Washington, DC, 20420, or by email at [email protected] at
least 5 days before the meeting. For further information, please call
Mrs. Asqueri at (202) 443-5757.
Dated: December 13, 2016.
LaTonya L. Small,
Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-30367 Filed 12-16-16; 8:45 am]
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