---
kind: "section"
citation: "39 C.F.R. § 778.9"
title: "39"
number: "778.9"
heading: "How does the Postal Service receive and respond to comments?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/39/778.9"
---

# §778.9. How does the Postal Service receive and respond to comments?

- (a) The Postal Service follows the procedures in [§ 778.10](/cfr/39/778.10.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 facility project action of a category selected under [§ 778.6](/cfr/39/778.6.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 does not submit a state process recommendation, state, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments directly to the Postal Service.
- (d) If a facility project action is not selected for a state process, state, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments directly to the Postal Service. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a nonselected facility project action is transmitted to the Postal Service by the single point of contact, the Postal Service follows the procedures of [§ 778.10](/cfr/39/778.10.md).
- (e) The Postal Service considers comments which do not constitute a state process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which the Postal Service is not required to apply the procedures of [§ 778.10](/cfr/39/778.10.md) when such comments are provided by a single point of contact or directly to the Postal Service by a commenting party.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 39 U.S.C. 401.

### Source

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