[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR2701.1]

[Page 648]

                         TITLE 29--LABOR

 CHAPTER XXVII--FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION

      PART 2701--GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE ACT REGULATIONS
 
Sec. 2701.1  Purpose and scope.

    (a) Purpose. The purpose of this part is to implement the Government 
in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. The rules in this part are intended 
to open, to the extent practicable, the meetings of the Commission to 
public observation while preserving the Commission's ability to fulfill 
its responsibilities and respect the interests of persons in 
confidential consideration of sensitive matters.

    (b) Scope. This part applies to all meetings of the Commission. A 
``meeting of the Commission'' means a joint deliberation in person or by 
conference telephone call of at least a majority of either the members 
of the Commission or of a panel of three or more Commissioners that 
determines or results in the joint conduct or disposition of official 
Commission business, but does not include (1) deliberations regarding a 
decision to open or close a meeting, to withhold information about a 
meeting, and the circumstances of meetings, such as their time, place, 
and subject matter, and (2) the individual deliberations of Commission 
members of matters considered upon circulated documents or other 
notation procedure.