[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: 49CFR95.5]

[Page 734]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 95_ADVISORY COMMITTEES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  95.5  Use of advisory committees generally.

    (a) Advisory committees are formed to provide a means of obtaining 
advice, views, and recommendations of benefit to the operations of the 
Government from industrialists, businessmen, scientists, engineers, 
educators, and other public and private citizens whose experience and 
talents would not otherwise be available to the Department. An advisory 
committee may be used when its counsel is desired on matters under 
consideration by any part of the Department. Unless specifically 
authorized by law to the contrary, no advisory committee may be used for 
functions which are not solely advisory. Determinations of action to be 
taken with respect to matters upon which an advisory committee advises 
or recommends may be made only by a full-time, salaried officer or 
employee of the Government.
    (b) An advisory committee may be established to serve the Department 
as a whole, the Office of the Secretary, any operating administration, 
any combination of the Office of the Secretary and the operating 
administrations, or the operating administrations collectively. However, 
no advisory committee may be formed or used unless (1) the committee is 
specifically authorized by law, or (2) the committee is specifically 
approved, in writing, by the Secretary or his designee, to be in the 
public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed on 
the Department or any part of it.