---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 660.7"
title: "45"
number: "660.7"
heading: "How does the Director communicate with state and local officials concerning the Foundation's programs and activities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/660.7"
---

# §660.7. How does the Director communicate with state and local officials concerning the Foundation's programs and activities?

- (a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under [§ 660.6](/cfr/45/660.6.md), the Director, 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 Director 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 Apr. 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); and sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 and as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 29365, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted.