ADVISORY COUNCIL ON TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS.

SEC. 6007. ADVISORY COUNCIL ON TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS. (a) Establishment.—The Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shall establish an Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics. (b) Function.—It shall be the function of the advisory council established under this section to advise the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics on transportation statistics and analyses, including whether or not the statistics and analysis disseminated by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics are of high quality and are based upon the best available objective information. (c) Membership.—The advisory council established under this section shall be composed of not more than 6 members appointed by the Director who are not officers or employees of the United States and who (except for 1 member who shall have expertise in economics and 1 member who shall have expertise in statistics) have expertise in transportation statistics and analysis. (d) Applicability of Federal Advisory Committee Act.—The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the advisory council established under this section, except that section 14 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act shall not apply to the Advisory Committee established under this section.