[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: 5CFR1703.5]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
     CHAPTER VII--ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
 
PART 1703--PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart A--Freedom of Information Act Implementation
 
Sec. 1703.5  Policy with respect to request for particular kinds of documents.

    This section is intended to amplify the policy set out in 
Sec. 1703.3(a) as applied to specific categories of documents:
    (a) All materials which are distributed to the membership of the 
Commission (Docket Book) for consideration at a plenary session will 
upon distribution be available to the public in accordance with 
Sec. 1703.2(d) of these regulations.
    (b) Consultant and staff reports which are otherwise exempt from 
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act as interagency or intra-
agency correspondence will, absent special circumstances, be made 
available if the reports are in substantially completed form and have 
been distributed widely for comment within or outside the Government. 
Tentative reports and working drafts which have received only limited 
circulation will ordinarily not be made available.
    (c) Agency comments on a report or proposed legislative 
recommendation, even if exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of 
Information Act, will nevertheless ordinarily be made available unless 
the agency indicates to the Commission that its comment is confidential. 
Comment of an individual Commission member, writing in his personal 
capacity, will not be made available without the consent of the member.
    (d) The following categories of documents are declared to be 
available to the public, notwithstanding any applicable exemption in 
section 552(b) of the Freedom of Information Act:
    (1) Agency reports on the implementation of Commission 
recommendations;
    (2) Correspondence from the Office of the Chairman of the Commission 
or the Executive Director to committees of Congress, commenting on 
pending legislation;

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    (3) Minutes of meetings of the standing committees of the 
Commission.
    (4) Transcripts or minutes of Commission meetings.