[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR560.2]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
                   CHAPTER V--MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION
 
PART 560_IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT--Table
 
Sec. 560.2  Definitions.

    For purposes of this part, the term--
    Administrative Officer means the Administrative Officer of the 
Marine Mammal Commission.
    Commission means the Marine Mammal Commission, a collegial body 
established under 16 U.S.C. 1401 that functions as a unit and is 
composed of three individual members, each of whom is appointed by the 
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
    Commissioner means an individual who is a member of the Marine 
Mammal Commission.
    Executive Director means the Executive Director of the Marine Mammal 
Commission.
    General Counsel means the General Counsel of the Marine Mammal 
Commission.
    Meeting means the deliberations of at least a majority of the 
members of the Commission where such deliberations determine or result 
in the joint conduct or disposition of official Commission business, but 
does not include an individual Commissioner's consideration of official 
Commission business circulated in writing for disposition either by 
notation or by separate, sequential consideration, and deliberations on 
whether to:
    (1) Hold a meeting with less than 7 days notice, as provided in 
Sec. 560.4(d) of this part;
    (2) Change the subject matter of a publicly announced meeting or the 
determination of the Commission to open or close a meeting or portions 
thereof to public observation, as provided in Sec. 560.4(e) of this 
part;
    (3) Change the time or place of an announced meeting, as provided in 
Sec. 560.4(f) of this part;
    (4) Close a meeting or portions of a meeting, as provided in Sec. 
560.5 of this part; or
    (5) Withhold from disclosure information pertaining to a meeting or 
portions of a meeting, as provided in Sec. 560.5 of this part.
    Public observation means attendance by one or more members of the 
public at a meeting of the Commission, but does not include 
participation in the meeting.

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    Public participation means the presentation or discussion of 
information, raising of questions, or other manner of involvement in a 
meeting of the Commission by one or more members of the public in a 
manner that contributes to the disposition of Commission business.