§1009 Advisory Committee Procedures

Summary

Advisory committee meetings must be open to the public. Agencies must publish timely notice of each meeting in the Federal Register and the Administrator must make rules so people learn about meetings in other ways too. Anyone interested can attend, speak, or file written statements, under reasonable rules. Records like reports, minutes, drafts, agendas, and similar documents must be available for public inspection and copying at one office location until the committee ends, subject to section 552. Detailed minutes must be kept and signed by the committee chair. Parts of a meeting can be closed if the President or the agency head finds it fits section 552b(c); that decision must be written with reasons. If any meetings are closed, the committee must issue at least one public report each year summarizing its work, consistent with section 552(b). A designated federal officer or employee must attend and can end meetings. Committees may meet only when that officer calls or approves the meeting and its agenda.