Federal Advisory Committee Act
- UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED
- TITLE 5. GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
- APPENDIX 2. FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT
- TITLE 5. GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 10. Advisory committee procedures; meetings; notice, publication in Federal Register; regulations; minutes; certification; annual report; Federal officer or employee, attendance
(a)(1) Each advisory committee meeting shall be open to the public.
(2) Except when the President determines otherwise for reasons of national
security, timely notice of each such meeting shall be published in the Federal
Register, and the Administrator shall prescribe regulations to provide for
other types of public notice to insure that all interested persons are notified
of such meeting prior thereto.
(3) Interested persons shall be permitted to attend, appear before, or file
statements with any advisory committee, subject to such reasonable rules or
regulations as the Administrator may prescribe.
(b) Subject to section 552
of title 5, United States Code, the records, reports, transcripts, minutes,
appendixes, working papers, drafts, studies, agenda, or other documents which
were made available to or prepared for or by each advisory committee shall be
available for public inspection and copying at a single location in the offices
of the advisory committee or the agency to which the advisory committee reports
until the advisory committee ceases to exist.
(c) Detailed minutes of each meeting of each advisory committee shall be
kept
and shall contain a record of the persons present, a complete and accurate
description of matters discussed and conclusions reached, and copies of all
reports received, issued, or approved by the advisory committee. The accuracy
of all minutes shall be certified to by the chairman of the advisory committee.
(d) Subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3) of this section shall not apply to any portion
of an advisory committee meeting where the President, or the head of the agency
to which the advisory committee reports, determines that such portion of such
meeting may be closed to the public in accordance with subsection (c) of section
552b of title 5, United
States Code. Any such determination shall be in writing and shall contain the
reasons for such determination. If such a determination is made, the advisory
committee shall issue a report at least annually setting forth a summary of
its activities and such related matters as would be informative to the public
consistent with the policy of section 552(b)
of title 5, United States Code.
(e) There shall be designated an officer or employee of the Federal
Government
to chair or attend each meeting of each advisory committee. The officer or
employee so designated is authorized, whenever he determines it to be in the
public interest, to adjourn any such meeting. No advisory committee shall
conduct any meeting in the absence of that officer or employee.
(f) Advisory committees shall not hold any meetings except at the call of, or
with the advance approval of, a designated officer or employee of the Federal
Government, and in the case of advisory committees (other than Presidential
advisory committees), with an agenda approved by such officer or employee.
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