[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 742 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 742

To amend the Federal Advisory Committee Act to limit the application of 
    that Act to meetings between Federal officers or employees and 
  representatives of State, county, and local governments and Indian 
 tribes, and to limit the application of that Act to activities of the 
 Department of the Interior related to consultations of the Department 
  with Indian tribal organizations with respect to the management of 
      funds held in trust by the United States for Indian tribes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 1995

  Mr. Dicks introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Advisory Committee Act to limit the application of 
    that Act to meetings between Federal officers or employees and 
  representatives of State, county, and local governments and Indian 
 tribes, and to limit the application of that Act to activities of the 
 Department of the Interior related to consultations of the Department 
  with Indian tribal organizations with respect to the management of 
      funds held in trust by the United States for Indian tribes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON APPLICATION OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT 
              TO CERTAIN MEETINGS AND CONSULTATIONS.

    Section 4 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c) by inserting before the period the 
        following: ``, or to any meeting between a full-time officer or 
        employee of the Federal Government and one or more 
        representatives of any combination of one or more State, 
        county, or local governments or Indian tribes''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) This Act does not apply to any activity of the Department of 
the Interior related to consultation of the Department with an Indian 
tribal organization with respect to the management of funds held in 
trust by the United States for an Indian tribe.''.
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