§1006 Responsibilities of the Administrator

Summary

The Administrator must create and keep 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, if its duties should change, if it should merge with other committees, or if 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 Congress about what should happen. The Administrator must set rules and management controls for advisory committees and, when possible, give advice and help to make them work better, using agency suggestions. After studying the issue with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Administrator must make guidelines for fair, uniform pay for committee members, staff, and consultants that reflect duties and qualifications. Those guidelines must not pay members more than the maximum rate in section 5376, may allow travel and per diem like section 5703, and may provide services under section 3102 for members who are blind, deaf, or otherwise qualify as individuals with disabilities and who are not agency employees. These rules do not stop people who are full‑time federal employees from being paid at their usual full‑time rate. The Administrator must also include, in budget recommendations, a summary of money needed for advisory committee expenses, including publishing reports.