---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 29.7"
title: "40"
number: "29.7"
heading: "How does the Administrator communicate with State and local officials concerning the EPA programs and activities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/29.7"
---

# §29.7. How does the Administrator communicate with State and local officials concerning the EPA programs and activities?

- (a) For those programs and activities covered by a State process under [§ 29.6](/cfr/40/29.6.md), the Administrator, 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 Administrator provides notice of proposed Federal financial assistance or direct Federal development to directly affected State, areawide, regional, and local entities in a State 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: E.O. 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30959), as amended Apr. 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: 48 FR 29300, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.