[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR510.6]

[Page 876]
 
                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
                   CHAPTER V--MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION
 
PART 510_IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT--Table 
 
Sec. 510.6  Public participation.

    (a) All committee meetings, or portions of meetings, that are open 
to the public shall be held at a reasonable time and at a place that is 
reasonably accessible to the public. A meeting room shall be selected 
which, within the bounds of the resources and facilities available, 
affords space to accommodate all members of the public who reasonably 
could be expected to attend.
    (b) Any member of the public shall be permitted to file a written 
statement with the committee, either by personally delivering a copy to 
the Chairperson, or by submitting the statement by mail to the Marine 
Mammal Commission Offices at the address indicated in the notice of 
meeting. Such statements should be received at least one week in advance 
of the scheduled meeting at which they are expected to be considered by 
the committee.
    (c) Opportunities will ordinarily be afforded to interested persons 
to speak to agenda items during that portion of the open meeting during 
which that item is to be considered by the committee, subject to such 
reasonable time limits as the committee may establish, and consideration 
of the extent to which the committee has received the benefit of 
comments by interested persons, the complexity and the importance of the 
subject, the time constraints under which the meeting is to be 
conducted, the number of persons who wish to speak during the meeting, 
and the extent to which the statement provides the committee with 
information which has not previously been available and is relevant to 
its decision or other action on that subject. Interested persons may be 
required to serve reasonable notice of their intentions to speak so that 
the committee may assess whether procedures and scheduling for the 
meeting can be adjusted to accommodate large numbers of participants.