Congress has officially exempted the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The act requires that government-appointed advisory committees be closely managed by their sponsoring agencies and that they provide public access to their deliberations and working documents. (See "Political Interference," ASEE PRISM, December 1997, p. 56)
NAS and its affiliate organizations-the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council-are independent organizations that advise the government on …
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