Organization, functions, and authority delegations: Meeting procedures,

[Federal Register: January 13, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 8)]

[Rules and Regulations]

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 0

[FCC 83-98]

Meeting Procedures

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: This document revises the Federal Communications Commission procedural rules pertaining to meeting procedures. The seven days notice requirement, generally applicable to Commission meetings, applied also to meetings whose only order of business was to decide whether to call a future meeting with shorter notice. In accordance with the Sunshine Act, the Commission exempted those kinds of meetings from the seven days notice requirement. The rule provision delineating the procedure to be followed in announcing meetings on short notice is also revised to eliminate any inconsistency in the text of the rules.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 13, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna Viert, Office of General Counsel Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. (202) 418-1725.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1983 the Federal Communications Commission revised its procedural rules pertaining to meeting procedures governed by the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552b. See Amendment of Section 0.601(b) and Section 0.605(e) of the Commission's Rules and Regulations, 93 FCC 2d 565 (1983). This Commission action amending Part 0 of the Commission's rules was inadvertently not published in the Federal Register. This omission is corrected by the attached rule change that will become effective immediately upon publication.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 0

Organization and functions, (Government agencies).

Federal Communications Commission. Magalie Roman Salas, Secretary.

Rule Changes

Part 0 of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations are amended as follows:

PART 0--COMMISSION ORGANIZATION

1. The authority citation for Part 0 continues to read as follows:

   Authority: Secs, 5, 48 Stat. 1068, as amended; 47 U.S.C. 155, 225, unless otherwise noted.

2. The first sentence of Sec. 0.601(b) is revised to read as follows:

   Sec. 0.601 Definitions.

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   (b) The term meeting means the deliberations among a quorum of the Commission, a Board of Commissioners, or a quorum of a committee of Commissioners, where such deliberations determine or result in the joint conduct or disposition of official

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   agency business, except that the term does not include deliberations to decide whether to announce a meeting with less than seven days notice, or whether a meeting should be open or closed. * * *

3. The last sentence of Sec. 0.605(e) is revised to read as follows:

   Sec. 0.605 Procedures for announcing meetings.

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   (e) * * * In addition to other information, the announcement will contain the vote of each member of the agency who participated in the decision to give less than seven days notice, and the particular reason for that decision. * * * * *

   [FR Doc. 99-688Filed1-12-99; 8:45 am]

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