---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 C.F.R. § 101.404"
title: "13"
number: "101.404"
heading: "How does the Administrator receive comments?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/13/101.404"
---

# §101.404. How does the Administrator receive comments?

- (a) The Administrator follows the procedures of [§ 101.405](/cfr/13/101.405.md) if—
  - (1) A state office or official is designated to act as a single point of contact between a state process and all Federal agencies; and
  - (2) That office or official transmits a state process recommendation for a program selected under [§ 101.402(a)](/cfr/13/101.402.md?p=a).
- (b)
  - (1) The single point of contact is not obligated to transmit comments from state, area-wide, regional, or local officials and entities where there is no state process recommendation.
  - (2) If a state process recommendation is transmitted by a single point of contact, all comments from state, area-wide, regional, and local officials and entities that differ from it must also be transmitted.
- (c) If a state has not established a process, or is unable to submit a state process recommendation, state, area-wide, regional, and local officials and entities may submit comments to SBA.
- (d) If a program or activity is not selected for a state process, state, area-wide, regional, and local officials and entities may submit comments to SBA. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a non-selected program or activity is transmitted to SBA by the single point of contact, the Administrator follows the procedures of [§ 101.405](/cfr/13/101.405.md).
- (e) The Administrator considers comments which do not constitute a state process recommendation submitted under this subpart and for which the Administrator is not required to apply the procedures of [§ 101.405](/cfr/13/101.405.md) when such comments are provided by a single point of contact directly to SBA by a commenting party.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552 and App. 3, secs. 2, 4(a), 6(a), and 9(a)(1)(T); 15 U.S.C. 633, 634, 687; 31 U.S.C. 6506; 44 U.S.C. 3512; 42 U.S.C. 6307(d); 15 U.S.C. 657h; E.O. 12372 (July 14, 1982), 47 FR 30959, 3 CFR, 1982 Comp., p. 197, as amended by E.O. 12416 (April 8, 1983), 48 FR 15887, 3 CFR, 1983 Comp., p. 186.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 2394, Jan. 26, 1996, unless otherwise noted.