---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 52.7"
title: "24"
number: "52.7"
heading: "How does the Secretary communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/52.7"
---

# §52.7. How does the Secretary communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?

- (a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under [§ 52.6](/cfr/24/52.6.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.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 6506; 42 U.S.C. 3334, 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29216, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.