[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 28]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR1517.1]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
 
PART 1517--PUBLIC MEETING PROCEDURES OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1517.1  Policy and scope.

    Consistent with the policy that the public is entitled to the 
fullest information regarding the decisionmaking processes of the 
Federal Government, it is the purpose of this part to open the meetings 
of the Council on Environmental Quality to public observation while 
protecting the rights of individuals and the ability of the Council to 
carry out its primary responsibility of providing advice to the 
President. Actions taken by the Chairman acting as Director of the 
Office of Environmental Quality and Council actions involving advice to 
the President when such advice is not formulated collegially during a 
meeting are outside the scope of this part. In addition to conducting 
the meetings required by this part, it is the Council's policy to 
conduct, open to public observation, periodic meetings involving Council 
discussions of Council business, including where appropriate, matters 
outside the scope of this part. This part does not affect the procedures 
set forth in part 1515 pursuant to which records of the Council are made 
available to the public for inspection and copying, except that the 
exemptions set forth in Sec. 1517.4(a) shall govern in the case of any 
request made to copy or inspect the transcripts, recording or minutes 
described in Sec. 1517.7.

[47 FR 6277, Feb. 11, 1982]