Federal)
Advisory Committee Act
attempts
to assure that Federal Advisory
Committees are established in a way that should insure their credibility
with the public in that it requires that the Committee have representatives
from the public sector, as this Committee does, with one representative
from
California,
representing
both
the
governor
and
the
people
of
California, and two representatives from Utah, representing the people and
the government of Utah individually.
The two from Arizona and the two from
Nevada having exactly those same relationships.
In addition, while there
are three or four members of the Committee whose present occupations, or
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past occupations, have to do with operations of national
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contractors of national
laboratories,
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laboratories or
many of the members,
including those who represent
I
guess
the
the public,
are
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individuals who are not “government scientists" at al] but who come from
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various universities and other research groups around the country.
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individuals on the Committee, who have some direct relationship with the
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Department
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of
Energy operations,
functfoning
of
the
in
my opinion,
Advisory Group,
because
are
we
The
obligatory to
need
their
the
expert
knowledge in some areas in which we deliberate.
In essense, I believe that our Charter is a reasonable one.
I believe
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that we decided it was a reasonable one two or three years ago when we
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started working on this; and it is my opinion that the Advisory Group is
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discharging their efforts in relation to this Charter in an appropriate, if
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not exemplary, fashion.
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I thank you all for being willing to serve on the Advisory Group given
the financial and other restraints that I mentioned earlier.
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