---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 9.7"
title: "43"
number: "9.7"
heading: "How does the Secretary communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/9.7"
---

# §9.7. How does the Secretary communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?

- (a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under [§ 9.6](/cfr/43/9.6.md), the Secretary, 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 in reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions.
- (b) The Secretary provides notice to directly affected state, areawide, regional, and local entities in a state of proposed federal financial assistance or direct federal development 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 April 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); and sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29232, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.