---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 1311.7"
title: "18"
number: "1311.7"
heading: "How does TVA communicate with state, regional, and local officials concerning TVA's programs and activities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/1311.7"
---

# §1311.7. How does TVA communicate with state, regional, and local officials concerning TVA's programs and activities?

- (a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under [§ 1311.6](/cfr/18/1311.6.md), TVA, to the extent permitted by law:
  - (1) Uses the official state process to determine views of state and local elected officials, and
  - (2) Communicates with state and local elected officials, through the official state process, as early in a program planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions.
- (b) TVA 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;
  - (2) The assistance or development involves a program or activity not selected for the state process; or
  - (3) **The particular government entity is not part of or involved in the state process.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, 48 Stat. 58, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 831-831dd (1976; Supp. V, 1981); E. O. 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30,959), amended April 8, 1983 (48 FR 15,887); sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968, as amended.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29399, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.