5650 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 21 / Tuesday, February 1, 2011 / Notices 

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 Public Law 92– 

463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) 

that a meeting of the Rehabilitation 

Research and Development Service 

Scientific Merit Review Board will be 

held February 23–25 and March 1–2, 

2011, at the Doubletree Hotel Crystal 

City, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, 

VA, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The 

following subcommittees of the Board 

will meet to evaluate merit review 

applications: 

February 23—Rehabilitation 

Engineering and Prosthetics/Orthotics 

Regenerative Medicine. 

February 23–24—Aging & 

Neurodegenerative Disease 

Psychological Health and Social 

Reintegration. 

February 23–25—Brain Injury 

Musculoskeletal/Orthopedic 

Rehabilitation. 

March 1—Rehabilitation Engineering 

and Prosthetics/Orthotics. 

March 1–2—Psychological Health and 

Social Reintegration; Sensory Systems/ 

Communication; Spinal Cord Injury; 

and Career Development Award 

Program. 

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. 

A general session of each 

subcommittee meeting will be open to 

the public for approximately one 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 

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 potion of each 

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). 

Those who plan to attend the general 

session should contact Tiffany Asqueri, 

Designated Federal Officer, 

Rehabilitation Research and 

Development Service, at Department of 

Veterans Affairs (122), 810 Vermont 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, 

or e-mail tiffany.asqueri@va.gov at least 

five days before the meeting. For further 

information, please call Mrs. Asqueri at 

(202) 443–5757. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Dated: January 26, 2011. 

William F. Russo, 

Director of Regulations Management, Office 

of the General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2011–2124 Filed 1–31–11; 8:45 am] 

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