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. sections 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 Commission determines that the committee member's participation is necessary to assure an adequate representation of the interests of the members.305 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 012