[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR7.11]

[Page 196]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 7--ADVISORY COMMITTEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 7.11  The Designated Federal Officer.

    (a) The Chairman of the Commission shall appoint a Designated 
Federal Officer for each NRC advisory committee and its subcommittees. 
The individual holding this position must be employed by the Federal 
Government on either a full-time or a permanent part-time basis.
    (b) All meetings of an NRC advisory committee must be convened or 
approved by the committee's Designated Federal Officer, and the agenda 
for each committee meeting (except a meeting of a Presidential advisory 
committee) must be approved by that individual.
    (c) An NRC advisory committee may not hold a meeting in the absence 
of its Designated Federal Officer.
    (d) It shall also be the responsibility of the Designated Federal 
Officer to--
    (1) Attend all meetings of the committee for which he or she has 
been appointed;
    (2) Adjourn the meetings of the committee when such adjournment is 
in the public interest;
    (3) Chair the meetings of the committee when so directed by the 
Commission;
    (4) Ensure compliance with the requirements of Sec. 7.13 regarding 
minutes of meetings of the committee; and
    (5) Make copies of committee documents required to be maintained for 
public inspection and copying pursuant to Sec. 7.14(b) available at the 
NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov, and/or at the NRC Public Document 
Room.

[54 FR 26948, June 27, 1989; 54 FR 28554, July 6, 1989, as amended at 64 
FR 48950, Sept. 9, 1999]