---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 29.9"
title: "40"
number: "29.9"
heading: "How does the Administrator receive and respond to comments?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/29.9"
---

# §29.9. How does the Administrator receive and respond to comments?

- (a) The Administrator follows the procedures in [§ 29.10](/cfr/40/29.10.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 [§ 29.6](/cfr/40/29.6.md).
- (b) 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. However, if a State process recommendation is transmitted by a single point of contact, all comments from State, area-wide, 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, the State, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments directly either to the applicant or to EPA.
- (d) If a program or activity is not selected for a State process, the State, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments either directly to the applicant or to EPA. In addition, if a State process recommendation for a nonselected program or activity is transmitted to EPA by the single point of contact, the Administrator follows the procedures of [§ 29.10](/cfr/40/29.10.md) of this part.
- (e) The Administrator considers comments which do not constitute a State process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which the Administrator is not required to apply the procedures of [§ 29.10](/cfr/40/29.10.md) of this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of contact, by the applicant, or directly to the Agency by a commenting party.

## 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.