[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: 40CFR1603.5]

[Page 526]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
       CHAPTER VI--CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
 
PART 1603--RULES IMPLEMENTING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1603.5  Assurance of compliance.

    (a) The General Counsel or another attorney designated by the 
General Counsel will attend and monitor all briefings described in 
Sec. 1603.3(c)(3) and (c)(4) and all informal preliminary discussions 
described in Sec. 1603.3(c)(5), to assure that those gatherings do not 
proceed to the point of becoming deliberations and meetings for Sunshine 
Act purposes.
    (b) The General Counsel or the designated attorney will inform the 
Board Members if developing discussions at a briefing or gathering 
should be deferred until a notice of an open or closed meeting can be 
published in the Federal Register, and a meeting conducted pursuant to 
the Sunshine Act and this part.
    (c) For each briefing described in Sec. 1603.3(c)(3) or (c)(4) and 
each informal preliminary discussion described in Sec. 1603.3(c)(5), the 
General Counsel is hereby authorized to designate a CSB employee, other 
than the attorney referred to in paragraph (a) of this section, to serve 
as a reporter. An employee may be designated as reporter for a single 
briefing or informal discussion or for a series of briefings or 
discussions. The reporter shall attend and prepare a written summary of 
each briefing(s) or informal discussion(s) for which he/she has been 
designated. The reporter must prepare the summary of a particular 
briefing or informal discussion within five business days after the date 
of that briefing or discussion. The reporter must then submit the 
summary to the General Counsel or the designated attorney who attended 
the briefing or informal discussion that is the subject of the summary 
for review and approval as a fair and accurate summary of that briefing 
or discussion. The written summaries of briefings and informal 
discussions shall be maintained in the Office of General Counsel.