[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR79.4]

[Page 194-195]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
PART 79--INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND 
ACTIVITIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 79.4  What are the Secretary's general responsibilities under the Order?

    (a) The Secretary provides opportunities for consultation by elected 
officials of those state and local governments that would provide the 
nonfederal funds for, or that would be directly affected by, proposed 
federal financial assistance from the Department.
    (b) If a state adopts a process under the Order to review and 
coordinate proposed federal financial assistance, the Secretary, to the 
extent permitted by law:
    (1) Uses the state process to determine official views of state and 
local elected officials;

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    (2) Communicates with state and local elected officials as early in 
a program planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific 
plans and actions;
    (3) Makes efforts to accommodate state and local elected official's 
concerns with proposed federal financial assistance that are 
communicated through the state process;
    (4) Allows the states to simplify and consolidate existing federally 
required state plan submissions;
    (5) Where state planning and budgeting systems are sufficient and 
where permitted by law, encourages the substitution of state plans for 
federally required state plans;
    (6) Seeks the coordination of views of affected state and local 
elected officials in one state with those of another state when proposed 
federal financial assistance has an impact on interstate metropolitan 
urban centers or other interstate areas; and
    (7) Supports state and local governments by discouraging the 
reauthorization or creation of any planning organization which is 
federally funded, which has a limited purpose, and which is not 
adequately representative of, or accountable to, state or local elected 
officials.

(Authority: E.O. 12372, Sec. 2)