[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR95.1]

[Page 733]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 95_ADVISORY COMMITTEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  95.1  Applicability.

    (a) This part prescribes uniform regulations governing the formation 
and use of advisory committees by the Office of the Secretary of 
Transportation, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation 
Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Railroad 
Administration, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the St. Lawrence 
Seaway Development Corporation. It does not apply to the National 
Transportation Safety Board.
    (b) This part applies to advisory committees formed or used by the 
organizations named in paragraph (a) of this section. It also applies to 
those organizations whenever they affiliate with, participate in, or use 
similar advisory committees formed or used by other departments or 
agencies of the Executive Branch of the Government, unless specifically 
exempted under paragraph (c) of this section. Advisory committees whose 
membership includes ``consultants and advisers'' are subject to this 
part regardless of whether those members are considered to be Government 
employees on the days they attend committee meetings.
    (c) This part does not apply to:
    (1) Any advisory committee the purpose, composition, and operation 
of which is specified by statute, unless and to the extent that statute 
authorizes the President to prescribe regulations for the committee's 
formation and use.
    (2) Any advisory committee composed wholly of representatives of 
State or local agencies or of charitable, religious, educational, civic, 
social welfare, or similar nonprofit organizations.
    (3) Any local, regional, or national committee whose only function 
is to disseminate information for public agencies, or any local civil 
committee whose primary function is to perform a public service, other 
than giving advice or making recommendations to the Government.

[33 FR 467, Jan. 12, 1968, as amended by Amdt. 95-2, 35 FR 5331, Mar. 
31, 1970; Amdt. 95-3, 36 FR 431, Jan. 13, 1971]