[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR180.11]

[Page 326]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 180_TOLERANCES AND EXEMPTIONS FROM TOLERANCES FOR PESTICIDE CHEMICALS 
IN FOOD--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B_Procedural Regulations
 
Sec. 180.11  Appointment of advisory committee.

    (a) Whenever the referral of a petition or proposal to an advisory 
committee is requested or the Administrator otherwise deems such 
referral necessary, the Administrator will request the National Academy 
of Sciences, National Research Council, to select qualified experts, 
including at least one representative from land-grant colleges, willing 
to serve on the advisory committee. All such experts shall have had 
sufficient training and experience in biology, medicine, physiology, 
toxicology, pharmacology, veterinary medicine, or other appropriate 
science to evaluate the safety of pesticide chemicals. The Administrator 
will requet the National Academy of Sciences, when it furnishes the 
names of such experts, to supply a biographical sketch showing the 
background of their experience and their connection, if any, with 
academic and commercial institutions.
    (b) Each advisory committee shall consist of not less than three 
experts, at least one of whom is a representative from a land-grant 
college. The Administrator may specify a larger number to serve. He 
shall appoint one member of the committee as chairman, and the chairman 
shall be the spokesman of the committee for receiving and forwarding 
reports and other functions of the committee.
    (c) The Administrator shall appoint the experts so selected and fix 
their compensation at not to exceed the maximum permitted by other 
authority per day for each day or part thereof spent in committee 
meetings and in traveling to and from committee meetings held outside 
the city of their residence, plus necessary traveling and subsistence 
expenses while the experts are serving away from their places of 
residence. Subsistence expenses shall not exceed the maximum per diem 
permitted by other authority.