[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 43CFR1784.1-1]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 1780_COOPERATIVE RELATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                    Subpart 1784_Advisory Committees

 

Sec.  1784.1-1  Establishment.



    (a) An advisory committee required by statute is established or 

renewed upon the filing of a charter, signed by the Secretary, with the 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate 

and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States 

House of Representatives.

    (b) An advisory committee not specifically required by statute shall 

be established only when the Secretary has--

    (1) Determined as a matter of formal record, after consultation with 

the General Services Administration, that establishment of the committee 

is in the public interest in connection with duties required of the 

Department of the Interior by law;

    (2) Signed and filed the committee charter; and

    (3) Published in the Federal Register a notice of his determination 

and of the establishment of the committee.

    (c) An advisory committee shall not meet or take any action until 

the Committee's charter has been signed by the Secretary and copies 

filed with the appropriate committees of the Senate and House of 

Representatives and the Library of Congress.