Members of a negotiated rulemaking committee shall be responsible for their own expenses of participation. However, the agency may pay for a committee member's actual and necessary expenses incurred in serving on the committee as provided in Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 81-1174 through 81-1177 and a reasonable per diem rate of compensation if:
012.01 The committee member certifies a lack of adequate financial resources to participate on the committee using the form at Attachment 4 which is attached to these regulations and made a part of them by reference; and,012.02 The agency determines that the committee member's participation is necessary to assure an adequate representation of the interests of the members.53 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 012