---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1912.8"
title: "29"
number: "1912.8"
heading: "Committee charters."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1912.8"
---

# §1912.8. Committee charters.

- (a) **Filing.** No advisory committee shall take any action or conduct any business subsequent to January 5, 1973, until a committee charter has been filed with the Secretary of Labor, the standing committees of the Congress having legislative jurisdiction of the Department of Labor and the Library of Congress.
- (b) **Committee charter information.** Each Advisory committee charter shall contain the following information:
  - (1) The committee's official designation;
  - (2) The committee's objectives and scope of activity; i.e., the standard or standards to be developed;
  - (3) The period of time necessary for the committee to carry out its purposes;
  - (4) The agency to whom the advisory committee reports (i.e., the Assistant Secretary);
  - (5) The agency responsible for providing support (i.e., the Occupational Safety and Health Administration);
  - (6) Description of the committee's duties;
  - (7) The estimated number and frequency of committee meetings;
  - (8) The estimated annual operating costs in dollars and man-years;
  - (9) The committee's termination date or other fixed period of termination, if less than 2 years; and
  - (10) **The date the charter is filed with the Department of Labor's Committee Management Officer.**
- (c) **Applicability of this section to subgroups—** The applicability of this section to subgroups of an advisory committee depends upon the nature of the subgroup. With regard to formal subgroups, such as a formal subcommittee of an advisory committee, the requisite information should be set forth either in the charter of the parent committee or in a separate charter. Informal subgroups of an advisory committee, particularly those temporary in nature, need not be reflected expressly in a charter.
- (d) The Assistant Secretary shall file each charter with the Department's Committee Management Officer.

## Notes

### Amendments

[38 FR 28035, Oct. 11, 1973, as amended at 90 FR 27999, July 1, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 653, 655, 656, 657; 5 U.S.C. 553; 5 U.S.C. App. 2; 40 U.S.C. 333; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 12-71 (36 FR 8754), 8-76 (41 FR 25059), 9-83 (48 FR 35736), 3-2000 (65 FR 50017), or 8-2020 (85 FR 58393), as applicable.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 28035, Oct. 11, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[38 FR 28035, Oct. 11, 1973, as amended at 90 FR 27999, July 1, 2025]