[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1701.10]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
     CHAPTER VII--ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
 
PART 1701--ORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1701.10  Other activities of the Commission.

    (a) The Commission devotes the necessary amount of ACIR staff time 
to technical assistance, publications, and education activities so as to 
disseminate Commission reports and encourage study of emerging public 
problems which may require adoption of Commission legislative 
recommendations. In carrying out these implementation activities, 
Commission members and the staff conduct and participate in press 
conferences, briefings for legislative and policy officials, legislative 
hearings, seminars and workshops, technical assistance visits to 
specific jurisdictions, and other activities appropriate to its 
statutory mandate.
    (b) Support activities. In support of its implementation activities, 
the Chairman and members of the Commission complement the staff work by 
participating in press conferences and briefings for legislative and 
policy officials, testifying before Congressional committees and state 
and local legislative bodies, participating in their home states in 
press and legislative activities to generate interest in ACIR reports 
and recommendations and to advance their implementation, making speeches 
as representatives of the Commission, serving as a two-way 
communications channel with the ACIR staff, and undertaking such other 
assignments on behalf of the Commission as may be appropriate.
    (c) Publications. ACIR reports containing legislative 
recommendations or Commission ``findings'' or ``conclusions'' (``A'' 
series) and major research reports not containing legislative 
recommendations (``M'' series) are published only after approval by the 
Commission. Other reports and publications may be published with the 
approval of the Executive Director as follows:

Public Opinion Survey (``S'' series)
Intergovernmental Perspective
In Brief (``B'' series)
``What is ACIR''' Brochure
Publications List
Staff Working Papers
Information Bulletins

    (d) Hearings. Whenever in the opinion of the Commission it is 
necessary or desirable to have a factual determination based on the 
testimony of sworn witnesses in an adjudicatory-type hearing, or to 
provide a forum for receiving statements from interested persons or 
members of the public, or a part thereof, in a legislative-type hearing, 
the Commission, or a sub-committee of the Commission (when authorized by 
the Commission) or any number of members thereof (not less than two) may 
hold a public hearing. Factors weighed when determining whether or not 
to hold a hearing include, but are not limited to:
    (1) The extent to which all directly affected interests were 
represented in the critics session.
    (2) Whether directly affected interests have requested a hearing 
with the Commission.
    (3) The extent to which a report contains findings, conclusions or 
potential recommendations on which identifiable interests are in sharp 
disagreement.
    (4) The extent to which hearings may be a good device for directing 
public attention to the Commission, the report, or both.

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    (5) Whether in meetings away from Washington a hearing will be a 
good device for calling attention to the Commission's presence in a 
particular community or region.