§2318. Advisory and technical committees -- Article VII

The governing board may establish advisory and technical committees composed of state, local and federal officials and private persons to advise it with respect to any one or more of its functions. Any such advisory or technical committee or any member or members thereof may meet with and participate in its deliberations upon request of the governing board or executive committee. An advisory or technical committee may furnish information and recommendations with respect to any application for assistance from the insurance fund being considered by the governing board or executive committee and the board or committee may receive and consider the same, provided that any participant in a meeting of the governing board or executive committee held pursuant to section 2317, subsection 4 is entitled to know the substance of any such information and recommendations, at the time of the meeting if furnished before or as part of the meeting or, if furnished after the meeting, no later than the time at which the governing board or executive committee makes its disposition of the application.

§2319. Relations with nonparty jurisdictions -- Article VIII

1.__Application. A party state may make application for assistance from the insurance fund with respect to a pest in a nonparty state. The application must be considered and decided on by the governing board or executive committee in the same manner as an application with respect to a pest within a party state, except as provided in this section.

2.__Nonparty state. At or in connection with any meeting of the governing board or executive committee held pursuant to section 2317, a nonparty state is entitled to appear, participate and receive information only to the extent that the governing board or executive committee provides. A nonparty state is not entitled to a review of any determination made by the executive committee.

3.__Expenditures. The governing board or executive committee shall authorize expenditures from the insurance fund to be made in a nonparty state only after determining that the conditions in the nonparty state and the value of the expenditures to the party states, as a whole, justify them. The governing board or executive committee may set any conditions that it considers appropriate with respect to the expenditure of money from the insurance fund in a nonparty state and may enter into an