[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR9.101]

[Page 233]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 9_PUBLIC RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart C_Government in the Sunshine Act Regulations
 
Sec. 9.101  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart:
    (a) Commission means the collegial body of five Commissioners or a 
quorum thereof as provided by section 201 of the Energy Reorganization 
Act of 1974, or any subdivision of that collegial body authorized to act 
on its behalf, and shall not mean any body not composed of members of 
that collegial body.
    (b) Commissioner means an individual who is a member of the 
Commission.
    (c) Meeting means the deliberations of at least a quorum of 
Commissioners where such deliberations determine or result in the joint 
conduct or disposition of official Commission business, that is, where 
discussions are sufficiently focused on discrete proposals or issues as 
to cause or to be likely to cause the individual participating members 
to form reasonably firm positions regarding matters pending or likely to 
arise before the agency. Deliberations required or permitted by 
Sec. Sec. 9.105, 9.106, or 9.108(c) do not constitute ``meetings'' 
within this definition.
    (d) Closed meeting means a meeting of the Commission closed to 
public observation as provided by Sec. 9.104.
    (e) Open meeting means a meeting of the Commission open to public 
observation pursuant to this subpart.
    (f) Secretary means the Secretary to the Commission.
    (g) General Counsel means the General Counsel of the commission as 
provided by section 25(b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and section 
201(f) of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, and, until such time as 
the offices of that officer are in the same location as those of the 
Commission, any member of his office specially designated in writing by 
him pursuant to this subsection to carry out his responsibilities under 
this subpart.

[42 FR 12877, Mar. 7, 1977, as amended at 50 FR 20891, May 21, 1985]