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Subcommittee for Date(s) Location 

Neurobiology—E ............................................................... Nov 18, 2004 ................................................................... Topaz Hotel. 

Gastroenterology .............................................................. Nov 18–19, 2004 ............................................................. Hotel Helix. 

Cardiovascular Studies—B ............................................... Nov 19, 2004 ................................................................... Washington Marriott. 

General Medical Science .................................................. Nov 19, 2004 ................................................................... Washington Marriott. 

Neurobiology—D ............................................................... Nov 19, 2004 ................................................................... Hotel Washington. 

Infectious Diseases—A ..................................................... Nov 22, 2004 ................................................................... Hotel Lombardy. 

Surgery—B ....................................................................... Nov 22, 2004 ................................................................... Hotel Lombardy. 

Neurobiology—B ............................................................... Nov 29, 2004 ................................................................... Washington Marriott. 

Immunology—A ................................................................ Nov 30, 2004 ................................................................... Hotel Lombardy. 

Mental Hlth & Behav Sciences—A ................................... Dec 1, 2004 ..................................................................... Residence Inn. 

Mental Hlth & Behav Sciences—B ................................... Dec 2, 2004 ..................................................................... Hotel Lombardy. 

Neurobiology—C ............................................................... Dec 2–3, 2004 ................................................................. Washington Marriott. 

Oncology—B ..................................................................... Dec 2–3, 2004 ................................................................. Hotel Washington. 

Clinical Research Program ............................................... Dec 3, 2004 ..................................................................... Washington Marriott. 

Endocrinology—B ............................................................. Dec 3, 2004 ..................................................................... Governor’s House. 

Cardiovascular Studies—A ............................................... Dec 6–7, 2004 ................................................................. St. Gregory Hotel. 

Immunology—B ................................................................ Dec 6–7, 2004 ................................................................. Hotel Rouge. 

Neurobiology—A ............................................................... Dec 9–10, 2004 ............................................................... Holiday Inn Central. 

Aging and Clinical Geriatrics ............................................ Dec 10, 2004 ................................................................... Hotel Lombardy. 

Oncology—A ..................................................................... Dec 13–14, 2004 ............................................................. Residence Inn. 

Respiration ........................................................................ Dec 13–14, 2004 ............................................................. Governor’s House. 

Hematology ....................................................................... Dec 16, 2004 ................................................................... Hotel Lombardy. 

Infectious Diseases—B ..................................................... Dec 16–17, 2004 ............................................................. Washington Marriott. 

The addresses of the hotels are: 

Governor’s House, 1615 Rhode Island Avenue, NW., Washington, DC; 

Holiday Inn Central, 1501 Rhode Island Avenue, NW., Washington, DC; 

Hotel Helix, 1430 Rhode Island Avenue, NW., Washington, DC; 

Hotel Lombardy, 2019 Pensylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC; 

Hotel Rouge, 1315—16th Street, NW., Washington, DC; 

Hotel Washington, 515—15th Street, NW., Washington, DC; 

Residence Inn (Thomas Circle), 1199 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC; 

St. Gregory Hotel & Suites, 2033 M Street, NW., Washington, DC; 

Topaz Hotel, 1733 N Street, NW., Washington, DC; 

Washington Marriott, 1221—22nd Street, NW., Washington, DC. 

These subcommittee meetings are for 

the purpose of evaluating the scientific 

merit of research conducted in each 

speciality by Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) investigations working in 

VA Medical Centers and Clinics.

The subcommittee meetings will be 

open to the public for approximately 

one hour at the start of each meeting to 

discuss the general status of the 

program. The remaining portion of each 

subcommittee meeting will be closed to 

the public for the review, discussion, 

and evaluation of initial and renewal 

projects. 

The closed portion of the meetings 

involves discussion, examination, 

reference to staff and consultant 

critiques of research protocols. During 

this portion of the subcommittee 

meetings, discussion and 

recommendations will deal with 

qualifications of 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 could significantly 

frustrate implementation of proposed 

agency action regarding such research 

projects. 

As provided by subsection 10(d) of 

Public Law 92–463, as amended, closing 

portions of these subcommittee 

meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C., 

552b(c)(6) and (9)(B). Those who plan to 

attend or would like to obtain a copy of 

minutes of the subcommittee meetings 

and rosters of the members of the 

subcommittees should contact LeRoy G. 

Frey, Ph.D., Chief, Program Review 

(121F), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

Washington, DC, (202) 254–0288.

Dated: October 14, 2004.

By Direction of the Secretary. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Privacy Act of 1974

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA).

ACTION: Notice of new system of 

records—VA VetBiz Assistance Program 

Pages—VA. 

SUMMARY: The Privacy Act of 1974, 5 

U.S.C. 522a(e), requires that all agencies 

publish in the Federal Register a notice 

of the existence and character of their 

systems of records. Notice is hereby 

given that the Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) is establishing a new 

system of records entitled ‘‘VA VetBiz 

Assistance Program Pages—VA’’

(132VA00VE).

DATES: Comments on the establishment 

of this new system of records must be 

received no later than November 29, 

2004. If no public comment is received, 

the new system will become effective 

November 29, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

concerning the proposed new system of 

records may be submitted by: mail or 

hand-delivery to Director, Regulations 

Management (00REG1), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 

NW., Room 1068, Washington, DC 

20420; fax to (202) 273–9026; or e-mail 

to VAregulations@mail.va.gov. All 

comments received will be available for 

public inspection in the Office of 

Regulation Policy and Management, 

Room 1063B, between the hours of 8 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday (except holidays). Please call 

(202) 273–9515 for an appointment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Gail Wegner (00VE), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20420, telephone 

number (202) 303–3260.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) 

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provides numerous services for veterans 

and service-disabled veterans who seek 

to open or expand a business. The CVE 

staff coordinates the tasks required of 

the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 

by several Federal laws, including: 

• Pub. L. 108–183 (December 2003), 

the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, 

Sections 301, 305, 308. 

• Pub. L. 106–554 (December 2000), 

Sections 803 and 808. 

• Pub. L. 106–50 (August 1999), the 

Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small 

Business Development Act of 1999. 

• Pub. L. 105–135 (December 1997), 

Title VII, Service Disabled Veterans 

Program. 

• Pub. L. 93–237 (January 1974), 

‘‘Special Consideration for Veterans’’. 

Public Law 106–50, Section 302, 

Entrepreneurial Assistance, subsection 

(5) requires VA to support the 

‘‘establishment of an information 

clearinghouse to collect and distribute 

information, including electronic 

means, on the assistance programs of 

Federal, state, and local governments, 

and of the private sector, including 

information on office locations, key 

personnel, telephone numbers, mailing 

and e-mail addresses, and contracting 

and sub-contracting opportunities.’’

The parts of the Veterans Benefits Act 

of 2003 (Public Law 108–183) that 

pertain to veteran entrepreneurship are 

contained in Title III—Education 

Benefits, Employment Provisions, and 

Related Matters. They are as follows:

Æ Section 301—Expand the 

Montgomery GI Bill program by 

authorizing educational assistance for 

on-job training in certain selfemployment training programs. 

Æ Section 305—Authorize the use of VA 

education benefits to pay for nondegree/non-credit entrepreneurship 

courses at approved institutions: 

• Small Business Development Centers, 

and 

• National Veterans Business 

Development Corporation (also 

known as Veterans Corporation). 

Æ Section 308—Furnish Federal 

agencies discretionary authority to: 

• Restrict certain contracts to disabled 

veteran-owned small businesses if at 

least two such concerns are qualified 

to bid on the contract, and 

• Create ‘‘sole-source’’ contracts for 

disabled veteran-owned small 

businesses—up to $5 million for 

manufacturing contract awards and 

up to $3 million for nonmanufacturing contract awards. 

As such, a Web-based application is 

needed to allow Governmental and 

support sector organizations to 

‘‘register’’ their services. This 

clearinghouse will allow any user to 

search for business support services at 

the Federal, State, and local government 

levels and private providers in their 

respective category of business 

development, management, financial, 

technical or procurement assistance. 

The site must allow support 

organizations to update their business 

information as well as give the 

Department the ability to upload data 

from other sources in an effort to 

populate the proposed database. Contact 

information must also be kept and a 

means to extract this information to 

satisfy the Department’s need to send 

out information is also required. 

This new system of records, known as 

the VA VetBiz Assistance Program Pages 

(APP)—VA, will be used to maintain 

and access an automated database 

containing the information on veteranowned businesses resources set forth in 

the law (section 302, paragraph (5) and 

section 604, paragraph (b)). Because 

some information may be retrieved by 

the name or other personal identifiers of 

individuals acting in an entrepreneurial 

capacity, such as a sole proprietor of a 

small business, VA is adopting this 

system of records. 

The information in this system will be 

maintained in electronic form. The 

information in these records will be 

available to government agencies, 

companies, and the general public via 

the Internet.

A ‘‘Report of Intention to Publish a 

Federal Register Notice of a New 

System of Records’’ and an advance 

copy of the new system notice have 

been sent to the appropriate 

Congressional Committees, and the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), as required by provisions of the 

Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 522a, and 

guidelines issued by OMB, 61 FR 6428 

(Feb. 20, 1996).

Approved: October 8, 2004. 

Anthony J. Principi, 

Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

132VA00VE 

SYSTEM NAME: 

VA VetBiz Assistance Program 

Pages—VA (132VA00VE). 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Records are maintained at the Center 

for Veterans Enterprise’s office in VA 

Headquarters, Washington, DC. VA’s 

Information Services Center, 1335 East 

West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 

20910, maintains the computerized 

database and Web site. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

The system of records will cover 

programs of Federal, State, and local 

governments, and private sector 

organizations and companies offering 

business or business assistance services 

to veteran entrepreneurs that wish to be 

a part of the information clearinghouse. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

The records will contain data on the 

assistance programs of Federal, state, 

and local governments, and of the 

private sector, including information on 

office locations, key personnel, 

telephone numbers, mailing and e-mail 

addresses, and contracting and 

subcontracting opportunities available 

to veteran entrepreneurs. The data will 

come from both governments and 

private sector organizations who have 

contacted the Center for Veterans 

Enterprise, registered their products or 

services online in the database, or have 

been extracted from e-government 

databases to which the companies have 

voluntarily submitted the data. The 

records may include business addresses 

and other contact information, 

information concerning products or 

services offered, and information 

pertaining to the business, such as 

federal contracts, and certifications. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Public Law 106–50, as amended. 

PURPOSE(S): 

1. VA personnel will access the 

system to find resources available to 

veteran entrepreneurs and to register 

those resources that they provide. They 

may also utilize the database to counsel 

and assist veteran entrepreneurs in 

starting a small business or expanding 

an existing small business. 

2. The Center for Veterans Enterprise 

will use the records and reports derived 

from the database to manage their 

responsibilities under the Veterans 

Entrepreneurship and Small Business 

Development Act of 1999. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

1. Federal, State, and local 

government personnel will access the 

system to find resources available to 

veteran entrepreneurs and to register 

those resources that they provide. They 

may also utilize the database to counsel 

and assist veteran entrepreneurs in 

starting a small business or expanding 

an existing small business. 

2. The general public, including 

private sector companies and corporate 

entities, will access the system, via 

Internet, to review the information,

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register those resources that they 

provide, and to locate potential 

resources for veteran entrepreneurs. 

COMPATIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED ROUTINE USES: 

The Privacy Act permits disclosure of 

information about individuals without 

their consent for a routine use when the 

information will be used for a purpose 

that is compatible with the purpose for 

which the information is collected. In 

all of the routine use disclosures 

described above, the recipient of the 

information will use the information in 

connection with a matter relating to one 

of VA’s programs. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

The VetBiz APP will be stored in an 

automated, computerized database. The 

system will operate on servers located at 

VA’s Information Services Center, 1335 

East West Highway, Silver Spring, 

Maryland 20910. Data backups will 

reside on appropriate media according 

to normal system backup plans. The 

system will be managed by the Center 

for Veterans Enterprise in VA 

Headquarters, Washington, DC. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Automated records may be retrieved 

by: 

1. Organization Name. 

2. Contact Name.

3. E-mail Address. 

4. Web Address. 

5. Area Code and Phone Number. 

6. Zip Code. 

7. County Code (NaCO). 

8. State(s). 

9. Type of Organization: Government 

(Federal; State; County; Municipal; 

Other); Nongovernmental Organization; 

Commercial. 

10. Type of Assistance: (paperwork 

packaging; grants/loans; procurement 

assistance; management/technical 

assistance; mentoring/incubator; 

contract opportunities; other). 

11. Service Area Limits (if any). 

12. Service limited to Veterans. 

13. Fees. 

14. Organization Funding Limits: 

(none; term—funding expires on a 

specific date). 

15. Year Established. 

16. Full-time/part-time. 

17. Days and Hours of Service. 

18. Other Professional Staff Available. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Read access to the system is via 

Internet access. VA Information Service 

Center and CVE personnel will have 

access to the system via VA Intranet and 

local connections for management and 

maintenance purposes and tasks. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records will be maintained and 

disposed of in accordance with the 

records disposal authority approved by 

the Archivist of the United States, the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration, and published in 

Agency Records Control Schedule No. 

20, Electronic Records. 

SYSTEM MANAGER: 

Deputy Director, Center for Veterans 

Enterprise (00VE), 810 Vermont 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals wishing to inquire 

whether this system of records contains 

information about themselves should 

contact the Deputy Director, Center for 

Veterans Enterprise (00VE), 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20420. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking access to records 

about themselves contained in this 

system of records may access the 

records via the Internet, or submit a 

written request to the system manager. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

An individual who wishes to contest 

records maintained under his or her 

name or other personal identifier may 

write or call the system manager. VA’s 

rules for accessing records and 

contesting contents and appealing 

initial agency determinations are 

published in regulations set forth in the 

Code of Federal Regulations. See 38 CFR 

1.577, 1.578. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

The information in this system of 

records is obtained from the following 

sources: 

a. Information voluntarily submitted 

by Federal, State, and local 

governments; 

b. Information voluntarily submitted 

by the private sector; and 

c. Information extracted from other 

business and resource databases.

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA).

ACTION: Notice of amendment to system 

of records. 

SUMMARY: The Privacy Act of 1974 (5 

U.S.C. 552a(e) (4)) requires that all 

agencies publish in the Federal Register

a notice of the existence and character 

of their systems of records. Notice is 

hereby given that the Department of 

Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending the 

system of records entitled ‘‘Blood Donor 

Information—VA’’ (04VA115) as set 

forth in the Federal Register, 40 FR 

38095, and last amended in the Federal 

Register, 66 FR 20860 (Apr. 25, 2001). 

VA is amending the system by revising 

the Routine Uses of Records Maintained 

in the System, including Categories of 

Users and the Purposes of Such Uses. 

VA is republishing the system notice in 

its entirety.

DATES: Comments on the amendment of 

this system of records must be received 

no later than November 29, 2004. If no 

public comment is received, the 

amended system will become effective 

November 29, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

concerning the proposed amended 

system of records may be submitted by: 

mail or hand-delivery to Director, 

Regulations Management (00REG1), 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 1068, 

Washington, DC 20420; fax to (202) 

273–9026; or e-mail to 

VAregulations@mail.va.gov. All 

comments received will be available for 

public inspection in the Office of 

Regulation Policy and Management, 

Room 1063B, between the hours of 8 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday (except holidays). Please call 

(202) 273–9515 for an appointment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) 

Privacy Act Officer, Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20420, telephone 

(727) 320–1839.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose for the system of records is to 

maintain vital blood donor information 

of individuals who have donated blood 

to a VHA health care facility, blood 

bank, government or to private agencies 

for blood that is to be issued for patient 

care under routine or emergency 

conditions. Information such as donor 

name, social security number, date of 

donation, type of donation, type of 

components produced by the donation, 

mandated tests results, and disposition 

of the blood or blood component is 

gathered in order to track the donor 

medical history, donation interval(s), 

results of donor testing, report positive 

or abnormal test results, and blood or