[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1208.5]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                                  BOARD
 
PART 1208_AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1208.5  Material relating to mediation function--confidential.

    (a) All files, reports, letters, memoranda, documents, and papers 
(hereinafter referred to as confidential documents) relating to the 
mediation function of the NMB, in the custody of the NMB or its 
employees relating to or acquired in their mediatory capacity under any 
applicable section of the Railway Labor Act of 1926, as amended, are 
hereby declared to be confidential. No such confidential documents or 
the material contained therein shall be disclosed to any unauthorized 
person, or be taken or withdrawn, copied or removed from the custody of 
the NMB or its employees by any person or by any agent of such person or 
his representative without the explicit consent of the NMB.
    (b) However, the following specific documents: Invocation or proffer 
of mediation, the reply or replies of the parties, the proffer of 
arbitration and replies thereto, and the notice of failure of mediatory 
efforts in cases under

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section 5, First of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, are matters of 
official record and are available for inspection and examination.
    (c) Interpretations of mediation agreements by the NMB, arising out 
of section 5, Second, of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, are public 
records and are therefore open for public inspection and examination.