[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 34CFR79.9]



[Page 198-199]

 

                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

PART 79_INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 

AND ACTIVITIES--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  79.9  How does the Secretary receive and respond to comments?



    (a) The Secretary follows the procedure in Sec.  79.10 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, and identifies it as such, for a program selected under 

Sec.  79.6.

    (b)(1) The single point of contact is not obligated to transmit 

comments from state, areawide, regional, or local officials and entities 

if 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 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 to the Department. In addition, if a state process 

recommendation for a nonselected program or activity is transmitted to 

the Department by the single



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point of contact, the Secretary follows the procedures of Sec.  79.10.

    (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 Sec.  79.10 of 

this part, if those comments are provided by a single point of contact, 

or directly to the Department by a commenting party.



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



[48 FR 29166, June 24, 1983, as amended at 51 FR 20825, June 9, 1986]