[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 24CFR52.4]



[Page 396-397]

 

                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 52_INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  52.4  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 

non-federal funds for, or that would be directly affected by, proposed 

Federal financial assistance from, or direct Federal development by, the 

Department.



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    (b) If a state adopts a process under the Order to review and 

coordinate proposed Federal financial assistance and direct Federal 

development, the Secretary, to the extent permitted by law:

    (1) Uses the state process to determine official views of state and 

local elected officials;

    (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 officials' 

concerns with proposed Federal financial assistance and direct Federal 

development 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 or direct Federal development 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.