---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 30.7"
title: "28"
number: "30.7"
heading: "How does the Attorney General communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/30.7"
---

# §30.7. How does the Attorney General 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 [§ 30.6](/cfr/28/30.6.md), the Attorney General, 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 Attorney General provides notice to directly affected state, areawide, regional, and local entities in a state or 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: Executive Order 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30959), as amended April 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); Sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506); Sec. 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 as amended (42 U.S.C. 3334).

### Source

Source: Order No. 1018-83, 48 FR 29246, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.