29 CFR § 1912.8 - Committee charters.

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title: "29 CFR § 1912.8 - Committee charters."
title_number: 29
title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "1912.8"
section_name: "Committee charters."
chapter_name: "OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
part_number: "1912"
part_name: "ADVISORY COMMITTEES ON STANDARDS"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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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."
regulatory_source: "38 FR 28035, Oct. 11, 1973, unless otherwise noted."
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# 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.

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