99-688. Meeting Procedures

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2149-2150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-688]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 0

[FCC 83-98]


Meeting Procedures

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission

ACTION: Final rule.

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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. [phone].

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.
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[FR Doc. 99-688 Filed 1-12-99; 8:45 am]
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