[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR800.4]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
           CHAPTER VIII--NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
 
PART 800_ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE BOARD AND DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart A_Organization and Functions
 
Sec.  800.4  Operation.

    In exercising its functions, duties, and responsibilities, the Board 
utilizes:
    (a) The Board's staff, consisting of specialized offices dealing 
with particular areas of transportation safety and performing 
administrative and technical work for the Board. The staff advises the 
Board and performs duties for the Board that are inherent in the staff's 
position in the organizational structure or that the Board has delegated 
to it. The staff is described more fully in Sec.  800.2.
    (b) Rules published in the Federal Register and codified in this 
Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These rules may be 
inspected in the Board's public reference room, or purchased from the 
Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office.

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    (c) Procedures and policies set forth in the agency's internal 
directives system which govern the activities of employees and 
organizational components of the Board. The internal directives system 
is designated as the NTSB Manual and consists of instructions which are 
called NTSB Orders and NTSB Notices.
    (d) Meetings of the Board Members conducted pursuant to the 
Government in the Sunshine Act.
    (e) Public hearings in connection with transportation accident 
investigations and public hearings and oral arguments in proceedings 
concerned with certificates or licenses issued by the Secretary or an 
Administrator of the Department of Transportation. They are held at the 
time and place announced in the notices thereof which are served on the 
parties to the proceedings or published in the Federal Register.

[49 FR 26232, June 27, 1984, as amended at 60 FR 61489, Nov. 30, 1995]