---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 1704.3"
title: "10"
number: "1704.3"
heading: "Open meetings requirement."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/1704.3"
---

# §1704.3. Open meetings requirement.

- (a) Any meetings of the Board, as defined in [§ 1704.2](/cfr/10/1704.2.md), shall be conducted in accordance with this part. Except as provided in [§ 1704.4](/cfr/10/1704.4.md), the Board's meetings, or portions thereof, shall be open to public observation.
- (b) The General Counsel or his designee will attend and monitor briefings described in [§ 1704.2(d)](/cfr/10/1704.2.md?p=d) (3)-(4) and informal preliminary discussions described in [§ 1704.2(d)(5)](/cfr/10/1704.2.md?p=d-5) to assure that those gatherings do not proceed to the point of becoming deliberations and “meetings” within the meaning of the Sunshine Act.
- (c) The General Counsel or his designee will inform the Board Members if developing discussions at a briefing or gathering should be deferred until a notice of an open or closed meeting can be published in the Federal Register, and a meeting conducted pursuant to the Sunshine Act and these regulations.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b; 42 U.S.C. 2286, 2286b(c), (k).

### Source

Source: 56 FR 9609, Mar. 7, 1991, unless otherwise noted.