[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 31]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR1517.1]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1517_PUBLIC MEETING PROCEDURES OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL 

QUALITY--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1517.1  Policy and scope.









Sec.

1517.1 Policy and scope.

1517.2 Definitions.

1517.3 Open meeting requirement.

1517.4 Exceptions.

1517.5 Procedure for closing meetings.

1517.6 Notice of meetings.

1517.7 Records of closed meetings.



    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b(g); Pub. L. 94-409.



    Source: 42 FR 20818, Apr. 22, 1977, unless otherwise noted.





    Consistent with the policy that the public is entitled to the 

fullest information regarding the decisionmaking processes of the 

Federal Government, it is the purpose of this part to open the meetings 

of the Council on Environmental Quality to public observation while 

protecting the rights of individuals and the ability of the Council to 

carry out its primary responsibility of providing advice to the 

President. Actions taken by the Chairman acting as Director of the 

Office of Environmental Quality and Council actions involving advice to 

the President when such advice is not formulated collegially during a 

meeting are outside the scope of this part. In addition to conducting 

the meetings required by this



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part, it is the Council's policy to conduct, open to public observation, 

periodic meetings involving Council discussions of Council business, 

including where appropriate, matters outside the scope of this part. 

This part does not affect the procedures set forth in part 1515 pursuant 

to which records of the Council are made available to the public for 

inspection and copying, except that the exemptions set forth in Sec.  

1517.4(a) shall govern in the case of any request made to copy or 

inspect the transcripts, recording or minutes described in Sec.  1517.7.



[47 FR 6277, Feb. 11, 1982]