[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 30]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR1603.5]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
       CHAPTER VI--CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
 
PART 1603_RULES IMPLEMENTING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT
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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

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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.