[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 39, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 39CFR230.11]

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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 230_OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart B_Rules Governing Compliance With Subpoenas, Summonses, and 
 
Sec.  230.11  What special definitions apply to these rules?

    The following definitions apply to Subpart B:
    (a) Authorizing official means the Inspector General or an official 
designated by the Inspector General to authorize release of documents or 
permission to testify.
    (b) Case or matter means any civil proceeding before a court of law, 
administrative board, hearing officer, or other body conducting a 
judicial or administrative proceeding in which the United States, the 
Postal Service, or another federal agency is not a named party.
    (c) Demand includes any request, order, or subpoena for testimony or 
the production of documents.
    (d) Document means all records, papers, or official files, 
including, but not limited to, official letters, telegrams, memoranda, 
reports, studies, calendar and diary entries, graphs, notes, charts, 
tabulations, data analyses, statistical or information accumulations, 
records of meetings and conversations, film impressions, magnetic tapes, 
computer discs, and sound or mechanical reproductions.
    (e) Employee or Office of Inspector General employee, for the 
purpose of this subpart only, means a Postal Service employee currently 
or formerly assigned to the Postal Service Office of Inspector General, 
student interns, contractors, and employees of contractors who have 
access to Office of Inspector General information and records.
    (f) General Counsel to the Inspector General means the General 
Counsel of the Office of Inspector General, or a person authorized by 
the Inspector General to give legal advice to Office of Inspector 
General employees. General Counsel to the Inspector General does not 
mean the General Counsel of the Postal Service.
    (g) Nonpublic includes any material or information not subject to 
mandatory public disclosure under Sec.  265.6(b) or which must be kept 
confidential under the Inspector General Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 3.
    (h) Office of Inspector General means the organizational unit within 
the Postal Service as outlined in part 221 of this chapter.
    (i) Office of Inspector General Manual is the document containing 
the standard operating procedures for criminal investigators, 
evaluators, and other employees of the Office of Inspector General.
    (j) Reports include all written reports, letters, recordings, or 
other memoralizations made in conjunction with the duties of an Office 
of Inspector General employee.
    (k) Testify or testimony includes both in-person oral statements 
before any body conducting a judicial or administrative proceeding and 
statements made in depositions, answers to interrogatories, 
declarations, affidavits, or other similar documents.