---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 9.9"
title: "43"
number: "9.9"
heading: "How does the Secretary receive and respond to comments?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/9.9"
---

# §9.9. How does the Secretary receive and respond to comments?

- (a) The Secretary follows the procedures in [§ 9.10](/cfr/43/9.10.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 [§ 9.6](/cfr/43/9.6.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 is unable to submit a state process recommendation, state, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments either to the applicant or to the Department.
- (d) If a program or activity is not selected for a state process, state, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments either to the applicant or to the Department. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a nonselected program or activity is transmitted to the Department by a single point of contact, the Secretary follows the procedures of [§ 9.10](/cfr/43/9.10.md) of this part.
- (e) The Secretary considers comments which do not constitute a state process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which the Secretary is not required to apply the procedures of [§ 9.10](/cfr/43/9.10.md) of this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of contact, by the applicant, or directly to the Department by a commenting party.

## 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.