§1006 Responsibilities of the Administrator

Summary

Create and run a Committee Management Secretariat inside the General Services Administration to handle all matters about advisory committees. Each year the Administrator must review every advisory committee to see if it is doing its job, whether its duties should change under existing laws, whether it should merge with another committee, or whether it should be ended. The Administrator can ask agencies for information and agency heads must cooperate. After each review, the Administrator must send recommendations to the President and to the agency head or to Congress. The Administrator must set rules and management controls for advisory committees and, when possible, give advice and help to make them work better, taking agency heads’ suggestions into account. After studying the issue and consulting the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Administrator must set fair pay guidelines for members, staff, and consultants. Those guidelines must recognize responsibilities and qualifications and must: not pay members above the maximum in section 5376; allow travel and per diem under section 5703 for intermittent government workers; and allow services under section 3102 for members who are blind, deaf, or otherwise qualify as disabled under section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 791) and who do not already qualify as agency employees under section 3102(a)(1). People who are full-time federal employees now or immediately before service may be paid at their full-time rate. The Administrator must also include a summary of needed advisory committee expenses, including report publication costs, in budget recommendations.