---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 13.7"
title: "15"
number: "13.7"
heading: "Communication with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/13.7"
---

# §13.7. Communication with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities.

- (a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under [§ 13.6](/cfr/15/13.6.md), the Secretary, to the extent permitted by law:
  - (1) Uses the state process to determine views of state and local elected officials; and,
  - (2) Communicates with state and local elected officials, through the state process, as early in a program planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions.
- (b) The Secretary provides notice to directly affected state, areawide, regional, and local entities in a state of proposed Federal financial assistance or direct Federal development if:
  - (1) The state has not adopted a process under the Order; or
  - (2) **The assistance or development involves a program or activity not selected for the state process.** This notice may be made by publication in the Federal Register or other appropriate means, which the Department in its discretion deems appropriate.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Executive Order 12372, July 14, 1982, 47 FR 30959, as amended April 8, 1983, 48 FR 15587, sec. 401, Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506); sec. 204, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 as amended (42 U.S.C. 3334).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29134, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.