---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 384.9"
title: "33"
number: "384.9"
heading: "How does the Corps of Engineers receive and respond to comments?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/384.9"
---

# §384.9. How does the Corps of Engineers receive and respond to comments?

- (a) The responsible Corps official follows the procedures in [§ 384.10](/cfr/33/384.10.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 [§ 384.6](/cfr/33/384.6.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.
  - (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 the responsible Corps official.
- (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 the responsible Corps official. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a nonselected program or activity is transmitted to the responsible Corps official by the single point of contact, such official follows the procedures of [§ 384.10](/cfr/33/384.10.md) of this part.
- (e) The responsible Corps official considers comments which do not constitute a state process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which such official is not required to apply the procedures of [§ 384.10](/cfr/33/384.10.md) of this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of contact or directly to such official by a commenting party.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: E.O. 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30959), as amended April 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); and sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29153, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.