---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 778.4"
title: "39"
number: "778.4"
heading: "What are the Postal Service's general responsibilities under the Order?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/778.4"
---

# §778.4. What are the Postal Service's general responsibilities under the Order?

- (a) The Postal Service provides opportunities for consultation by elected officials of those state and local governments that would be directly affected by the Postal Service's facility project actions.
- (b) If a state adopts a process under the Order to review and coordinate proposed direct Federal development projects, the Postal Service, to the extent permitted by law:
  - (1) Uses the state process to determine official views of state and local elected officials;
  - (2) Communicates with state and local elected officials as early in a facility project action's planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions;
  - (3) Makes efforts to accommodate state and local elected officials' concerns with proposed direct Federal development projects that are communicated through the state process; and
  - (4) -(5) [Reserved]
  - (6) Seeks the coordination of views of affected state and local elected officials in one state with those of another state when a proposed direct Federal development project has an impact on interstate metropolitan urban centers or other interstate areas.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 401.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29376, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.