Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 2.djvu/774

 99 STAT. 1884

Records. Public inspection.

Contracts. Prohibitions.

Reports.

Prohibition.

PUBLIC LAW 99-240—JAN. 15, 1986

"d) The Commission shall meet at least once annually and shall also meet upon the call of the chairperson or a Commission member. "e) All meetings of the Commission and its designated committees shall be open to the public with reasonable advance notice. The Commission may, by majority vote, close a meeting to the public for the purpose of considering sensitive personnel or legal strategy matters. However, all Commission actions and decisions shall be made in open meetings and appropriately recorded. A roll call may be required upon request of any member or the presiding officer. "f) The Commission may establish advisory committees for the purpose of advising the Commission on any matters pertaining to waste management, waste generation and source and volume reduction. "g) The Office of the Commission shall be in the first state eligible to be a host state. The Commission may appoint or contract for and compensate such staff necessary to carry out its duties and functions. The staff shall serve at the Commission's pleasure with the exception that staff hired as the result of securing federal funds shall be hired and governed under applicable federal statutes and regulations. In selecting any staff, the Commission shall assure that the staff has adequate experience and formal training to carry out the functions assigned to it by the Commission. "h) All files, records and data of the Commission shall be open to reasonable public inspection and may be copied upon payment of reasonable fees to be established where appropriate by the Commission, except for information privileged against introduction in judicial proceedings. Such fees may be waived or shall be reduced substantially for not-for-profit organizations. "i) The Commission may: "1) Enter into an agreement or contract with any person, state or group of states for the right to use regional facilities for waste generated outside of the region and for the right to use facilities outside the region for waste generated within the region. No person may use a regional facility for waste generated outside the region unless both a majority of the members of the Commission and all members from the host state in which any affected regional facility is located vote in favor of permitting such use. No person in the region may use a storage, treatment or disposal facility outside the region without prior Commission approval. No such agreement or contract shall be valid unless specifically approved by a law enacted by the legislature of the host state. "2) Approve the disposal of waste generated within the region at a facility other than a regional facility. "3) Appear as an intervenor or party in interest before any court of law or any federal, state or local agency, board or commission in any matter related to waste management. In order to represent its views, the Commission may arrange for any expert testimony, reports, evidence or other participation. 4) Review the emergency closure of a regional facility, determine the appropriateness of that closure, and take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that the interests of the region are protected, provided that a party state with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year that is less than 10 percent of the total volume recorded on such manifests for the region during 4 ^. same year shall not be designated a host state or be required to store the region's

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