[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 531-532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-99]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Service, and 
Rehabilitation Research and Development Subcommittee on Scientific 
Review and Evaluation for Health Services Research and Development, 
Notice of Meeting

    The Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, 
gives notice under Public Law 92-463, that a meeting of the Advisory 
Committee for Cooperative Studies, Health Service, and Rehabilitation 
Research and [[Page 532]] Development Subcommittee on Scientific Review 
and Evaluation for Health Services Research and Development will be 
held at The Holiday Inn, 7353 E. Indian School Road, Scottsdale, AZ, 
January 17 through January 19, 1995. The session on January 17, 1995, 
is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. (MST). The 
sessions scheduled for January 18 and 19 are scheduled to begin at 8:00 
a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. (MST). The purpose of the meeting is to 
review research and development applications concerned with the 
measurement and evaluation of health care systems and with testing new 
methods of health care delivery and management. Applications are 
reviewed for scientific and technical merit and recommendations 
regarding their funding are prepared for the Associate Chief Medical 
Director for Research and Development.
    The meeting will be open to the public (to the seating capacity of 
the room) at the start of the January 17 session for approximately one 
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 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 would be likely to significantly frustrate 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 portions of these meetings is in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 
552b(c)(6) and (9)(B).
    Due to the limited seating capacity of the room, those who plan to 
attend the open session should contact Mr. Bill Judy, Review Program 
Manager (12B3), Health Services Research and Development Service, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW, (Techworld), 
Washington, DC 20420 (phone: 202-523-7425) at least five days before 
the meeting.

    Dated: December 20, 1994.

    By Direction of the Secretary:
Heyward Bannister,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 95-99 Filed 1-3-95; 8:45 am]
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