[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR4.9]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
                                SECURITY
 
PART 4_INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) 
 
Sec.  4.9  How does the Director receive and respond to comments?

    (a) The Director follows the procedures in Sec.  4.10 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 
for a program selected under Sec.  4.6.
    (b)(1) The single point of contact is not obligated to transmit 
comments from State, areawide, 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, 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 FEMA.

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    (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 FEMA. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a 
nonselected program or activity is transmitted to FEMA by the single 
point of contact, the Director follows the procedures of Sec.  4.10 of 
this part.
    (e) The Director considers comments which do not constitute a state 
process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which 
the Director is not required to apply the procedures of Sec.  4.10 of 
this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of contact, 
by the applicant or directly to FEMA by a commenting party.