Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 89.djvu/446

 89 STAT. 386

PUBLIC LAW 94-70—AUG. 5, 1975 Not more than one such Commissioner shall be a salaried employee of any State or political subdivision thereof, or the Federal Government. The Commissioners shall be entitled to select a Chairman and to adopt such rules of procedure as they find necessary. (b) The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary, may designate from time to time and for periods of time deemed appropriate Alternate United States Commissioners to the Commission. Any Alternate United States Commissioner may exercise at any meeting of the Commission, Council, any Panel, or the advisory committee established pursuant to section 4 of this Act, all powers and duties of a United States Commissioner in the absence of any Commissioner appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for whatever reason. The number of such Alternate United States Commissioners that may be designated for any such meeting shall be limited to the number of United States Commissioners appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section who will not be present at such meeting. (c) The United States Commissioners or Alternate Commissioners, although officers of the United States while so serving, shall receive no compensation for their services as such Commissioners or Alternate Commissioners. ADVISORY

16 USC 971b. 20 UST 2887.

Transportation expenses.

COMMITTEE

SEC. 4. The United States Commissioners shall appoint an advisory committee which shall be composed of not less than five nor more than twenty individuals who shall be selected from the various groups concerned with the fisheries covered by the Convention. Each member of the advisory committee shall serve for a term of two years and be eligible for reappointment. Members of the advisory committee may attend all public meetings of the Commission, Council, or any Panel and any other meetings to which they are invited by the Commission, Council, or any Panel. The advisory committee snail be invited to attend all nonexecutive meeting of the United States Commissioners and at such meetings shall be given opportunity to examine and to be heard on all proposed programs of investigation, reports, recommendations, and regulations of the Commission. Members of the advisory committee shall receive no compensation for their services as such members. On approval by the United States Commissioners— (1) if not more than three members of the advisory committee are designated by the committee to attend any meeting of the Commission, Council, or advisory committee, or of any Panel, each of such members shall be paid for his actual transportation expenses and per diem incident to his attendance; and (2) in any case in which more than three members are designated by the advisory committee to attend any such meeting, each such member to whom paragraph (1) does not apply may be paid for his actual transportation expenses and per diem incident to his attendance. SECRETARY OF STATE TO ACT FOR THE UNITED STATES

16 USC 971c.

SEC. 5. (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to receive on behalf of the United States, reports, requests, and other communications of the Commission, and to act thereon directly or by reference to the appropriate authorities. The Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary and, for matters relating to enforcement, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, is authorized to take appropriate action on behalf of the United States

�