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"FACA clearly requires agency heads at least to consider whether new restraints on committee membership might inappropriately enhance special interest influence and to eschew such restraints when they do so."  ''Union of Concerned Scientists v. Wheeler'', 954 F.3d 11, 19 (1st Cir. 2020).  However, FACA does not establish a private cause of action:

"FACA clearly requires agency heads at least to consider whether new restraints on committee membership might inappropriately enhance special interest influence and to eschew such restraints when they do so."  ''Union of Concerned Scientists v. Wheeler'', 954 F.3d 11, 19 (1st Cir. 2020).  However, FACA does not establish a private cause of action:

{{cquote|FACA clearly requires agency heads at least to consider whether new restraints on committee membership might inappropriately enhance special interest influence and to eschew such restraints when they do so.}}

{{cquote|FACA clearly requires agency heads at least to consider whether new restraints on committee membership might inappropriately enhance special interest influence and to eschew such restraints when they do so.}}

<br>''Union of Concerned Scientists v. Wheeler'', 954 F.3d 11, 19 (1st Cir. 2020).

''Union of Concerned Scientists v. Wheeler'', 954 F.3d 11, 19 (1st Cir. 2020).

 

In that [[First Circuit]] decision, Appellants asserted that an EPA "directive violates FACA's fair balance provision (Count III); the directive violates FACA's inappropriate influence provision (Count IV); and the EPA offered no rational explanation for adopting the directive, especially given that it changed prior policy (Count I)."  ''Id.'' at 17.

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