35912 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 138 / Tuesday, July 21, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Health Services Research and 

Development Service 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 Health Services 

Research and Development Service 

Scientific Merit Review Board will be 

held August 18–20, 2009, at the 

Doubletree Denver Tech, 7801 East 

Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, 

Colorado. Various subcommittees of the 

Board will meet during the review 

period. Each subcommittee meeting will 

be open to the public the first day for 

approximately one half-hour from 8 a.m. 

until 8:30 a.m. to cover administrative 

matters and to discuss the general status 

of the program. The remaining portion 

of the meetings will be closed. The 

closed portion of each meeting will 

involve discussion, examination, 

reference to, and oral review of the 

research proposals and critiques. 

The purpose of the Board is to review 

research and development applications 

involving the measurement and 

evaluation of health care services, the 

testing of new methods of health care 

delivery and management, and nursing 

research. Applications are reviewed for 

scientific and technical merit. 

Recommendations regarding funding 

are submitted to the Office of Research 

and Development’s Chief Research and 

Development Officer. 

On August 18, the Nursing Research 

Initiative subcommittee will convene 

from 8 a.m. until noon and the Career 

Development subcommittee will 

convene from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. 

On August 19, the Health Services 

Research A, Health Services Research B, 

Health Services Research C, Health 

Services Research D, and Health 

Services Research E subcommittees will 

convene from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. In the 

afternoon, the Career Development 

subcommittee will reconvene from 1 

p.m. until 5 p.m. 

On August 20, the Health Services 

Research A–E subcommittees will 

reconvene from 8 a.m. until noon. In the 

afternoon, the Health Services Research 

F subcommittee will convene from 1 

p.m. until 5 p.m. 

After the subcommittees meet, there 

will be a debriefing provided to 

members of the Board. The purposes of 

the debriefing are to discuss the 

outcomes of the review sessions and to 

ensure the continued integrity and 

consistency of the review process. 

During the closed portion 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 portions of 

each meeting is in accordance with 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(6) and (9)(B). 

Those who plan to attend the open 

portion should contact Ms. Rita Lysik, 

Scientific Merit Review Coordinator, 

Health Services Research and 

Development Service (124R), 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20420, at least five days prior to the 

meeting. For further information, please 

call (202) 461–1524. 

Dated: July 15, 2009. 

By Direction of the Secretary. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–17197 Filed 7–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 


jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with NOTICES