{"data":{"id":"us/34-cfr-79.9","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"34 CFR 79.9","heading":"How does the Secretary receive and respond to comments?","body":"(a) The Secretary follows the procedure in § 79.10 if:\n(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\n(2) That office or official transmits a State process recommendation, and identifies it as such, for a program selected under § 79.6.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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 point of contact, the Secretary follows the procedures of § 79.10.\n(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 § 79.10, if those comments are provided by a single point of contact, or directly to the Department by a commenting party.","path":["Title 34—Education","Subtitle A—Office of the Secretary, Department of Education","PART 79—INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-34.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:40Z","sha256":"4d10a9a33f05a97775871c9582d7d3c9503af3d70cb1dce101eeadf6d80246d2","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/34-cfr-79.8","next":"us/34-cfr-79.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}