[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 31]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR1517.2]

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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.  1517.2  Definitions.

    For the purpose of this part:
    (a) The term Council shall mean the Council on Environmental Quality 
established under title II of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 through 4347).
    (b) The term meeting means the deliberations of at least two Council 
members where such deliberations determine or result in the joint 
conduct or disposition of official collegial Council business, but does 
not include deliberations to take actions to open or close a meeting 
under Sec.  Sec.  1517.4 and 1517.5 or to release or withhold information 
under Sec.  Sec.  1517.4 and 1517.7. ``Meeting'' shall not be construed 
to prevent Council members from considering individually Council 
business that is circulated to them sequentially in writing.
    (c) Director means the Chairman of the Council on Environmental 
Quality acting as the head of the Office of Environmental Quality 
pursuant to the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, Pub. L. 
91-224, 42 U.S.C. 4371 through 4374.

[44 FR 34946, June 18, 1979, as amended at 47 FR 6277, Feb. 11, 1982]