---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 1311.9"
title: "18"
number: "1311.9"
heading: "How does TVA receive and respond to comments?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/1311.9"
---

# §1311.9. How does TVA receive and respond to comments?

- (a) TVA follows the procedures in [§ 1311.10](/cfr/18/1311.10.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 [§ 1311.6](/cfr/18/1311.6.md).
- (b)
  - (1) The single point of contact is not obligated to transmit comments from state, areawide, regional, or local officials and entities where there is no state process recommendation; however, these officials or entities may submit comments directly to TVA for TVA's consideration.
  - (2) If a state process recommendation is transmitted by a single point of contact, all comments from state, areawide, 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, areawide, regional, and local officials and entities may submit comments to TVA.
- (d) If a program or activity is not selected for a state process, state, areawide, regional, and local officials and entities may submit comments to TVA. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a nonselected program or activity is transmitted to TVA by the single point of contact, TVA follows the procedures of [§ 1311.10](/cfr/18/1311.10.md) of this part.
- (e) TVA considers comments which do not constitute a state process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which TVA is not required to apply the procedures of [§ 1311.10](/cfr/18/1311.10.md) of this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of contact or directly to TVA by a state, areawide, regional, or local government.

## 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.