[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 13, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 13CFR101.404]

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                TITLE 13--BUSINESS CREDIT AND ASSISTANCE
 
                CHAPTER I--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 101--ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart D--Intergovernmental Partnership
 
Sec. 101.404  How does the Administrator receive comments?

    (a) The Administrator follows the procedures of Sec. 101.405 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 Sec. 101.402(a).
    (b)(1) The single point of contact is not obligated to transmit 
comments from state, area-wide, 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, 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, state, area-wide, regional, and local 
officials and entities may submit comments to SBA.
    (d) If a program or activity is not selected for a state process, 
state, area-wide, regional, and local officials and entities may submit 
comments to SBA. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a 
non-selected program or activity is transmitted to SBA by the single 
point of contact, the Administrator follows the procedures of 
Sec. 101.405.
    (e) The Administrator considers comments which do not constitute a 
state process recommendation submitted under this subpart and for which 
the Administrator is not required to apply the procedures of 
Sec. 101.405 when such comments are provided by a single point of 
contact directly to SBA by a commenting party.

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