---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 430.16"
title: "42"
number: "430.16"
heading: "Timing and notice of action on State plan material."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/430.16"
---

# §430.16. Timing and notice of action on State plan material.

- (a) **Timing.**
  - (1) A State plan or plan amendment will be considered approved unless CMS, within 90 days after receipt of the plan or plan amendment in the regional office, sends the State—
    - (i) Written notice of disapproval; or
    - (ii) **Written notice of any additional information it needs in order to make a final determination.**
  - (2) If CMS requests additional information, the 90-day period for CMS action on the plan or plan amendment begins on the day it receives that information.
- (b) **Notice of final determination.**
  - (1) The Regional Administrator or the Administrator notifies the Medicaid agency of the approval of a State plan or plan amendment.
  - (2) **Only the Administrator gives notice of disapproval of a State plan or plan amendment.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 36571, Sept. 21, 1988, unless otherwise noted.