[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: 10CFR7.2]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 7--ADVISORY COMMITTEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 7.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    (a) Act means the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 5 
U.S.C. App.
    (b) Administrator means the Administrator of General Services.
    (c)(1) Advisory committee means any committee, board, commission, 
council, conference, panel, task force, or similar group, or any 
subcommittee or other subgroup thereof, that is established by statute 
for the purpose of providing advice or recommendations on issues of 
policy to an official, branch, or agency of the Federal Government, or 
that is established or utilized by the President or any agency official 
to obtain advice or recommendations on issues or policies that fall 
within the scope of his or her responsibilities; except that the term 
``advisory committee'' shall not include the groups listed in paragraph 
(c)(3) of this section.
    (2) For purposes of the definition of ``advisory committee'' in 
paragraph (c)(1) of this section, a group shall be considered to be 
``utilized by the President or any agency official to obtain advice or 
recommendations on issues or policies that fall within the scope of his 
or her responsibilities'' if (i) the group is composed in whole or in 
part of other than full-time officers or employees of the Federal 
Government, (ii) the group has an established existence outside the 
agency seeking the advice, (iii) the group is a preferred source from 
which to obtain advice or recommendations on a specific issue or policy 
within the scope of the President's or agency official's 
responsibilities, and (iv) such advice or recommendations are obtained 
in the same manner as advice or recommendations obtained from 
established advisory committees.
    (3) The following advisory meetings or groups are not included in 
the definition of ``advisory committee'' in paragraph (c)(1) of this 
section:
    (i) Any group composed wholly of full-time officers or employees of 
the Federal Government;
    (ii) Any group specifically exempted from the Act or these 
regulations by an Act of Congress;
    (iii) Any local civic group whose primary function is that of 
rendering a public service with respect to a Federal program, or any 
State or local committee, council, board, commission, or similar group 
established to advise or make recommendations to any State or local 
government unit or an official thereof;
    (iv) Any group that performs primarily operational functions 
specifically provided by law, as opposed to advisory functions;
    (v) Any meeting initiated by the President or one or more Federal 
officials for the purpose of obtaining advice or recommendations from 
one individual;
    (vi) Any meeting that is initiated by a Federal official and that is 
held with more than one individual for the purpose of obtaining the 
advice of individual attendees and not for the purpose of utilizing the 
group to obtain consensus advice or recommendations, except where the 
agency accepts the group's deliberations as a source of consensus advice 
or recommendations;
    (vii) Any meeting initiated by a group with the President or one or 
more Federal officials for the purpose of expressing the group's view, 
provided that the President or Federal official does not use the group 
recurrently as a preferred source of advice or recommendations;
    (viii) Any meeting of two or more advisory committee members 
convened solely to gather information or conduct research for a 
chartered advisory committee to analyze relevant issues and facts for a 
chartered advisory committee, or to draft proposed position papers for 
deliberation by a chartered advisory committee; and
    (ix) Any meeting with a group initiated by the President or by one 
or more Federal officials for the purpose of exchanging facts or 
information.

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    (d) Agency means an agency of the Government of the United States as 
defined in 5 U.S.C. 551(1).
    (e) Commission means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of five 
members, or a quorum thereof, sitting as a body, as provided by section 
201 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5841 (88 Stat. 
1242).
    (f) Committee member means an individual who is appointed to serve 
on an advisory committee and has the full right and obligation to 
participate in the activities of the committee, including voting on 
committee recommendations.
    (g) Designated Federal Official means a government employee 
appointed, pursuant to Sec. 7.11(a), to chair or attend each meeting of 
an NRC advisory committee to which he or she is assigned.
    (h) GSA means the General Services Administration.
    (i) NRC means the agency established by title II of the Energy 
Reorganization Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5801 (88 Stat. 1233), and known as 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    (j) NRC Advisory Committee Management Officer means the individual 
appointed, pursuant to Sec. 7.10(a), to supervise and control the 
establishment and management of NRC advisory committees.
    (k) NRC Public Document Room means the Public Document Room 
maintained by the NRC at 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    (l) Presidential advisory committee means an advisory committee that 
advises the President.
    (m) GSA Secretariat means the Committee Management Secretariat of 
the General Services Administration, which was established pursuant to 
the Act.
    (n) Staff member means any individual who serves in a support 
capacity to an advisory committee.