[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR29.9]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 29_INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 29.9  How does the Administrator receive and respond to comments?

    (a) The Administrator follows the procedures in Sec. 29.10 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. 29.6.
    (b) 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. However, 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, the State, areawide, regional and local 
officials and entities may submit comments directly either to the 
applicant or to EPA.
    (d) If a program or activity is not selected for a State process, 
the State, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may 
submit comments either directly to the applicant or to EPA. In addition, 
if a State process recommendation for a nonselected program or activity 
is transmitted to EPA by the single point of contact, the Administrator 
follows the procedures of Sec. 29.10 of this part.
    (e) The Administrator considers comments which do not constitute a 
State process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for 
which the Administrator is not required to apply the procedures of Sec. 
29.10 of this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of 
contact, by the applicant, or directly to the Agency by a commenting 
party.

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