{"data":{"id":"us/39-cfr-778.4","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"39 CFR 778.4","heading":"What are the Postal Service's general responsibilities under the Order?","body":"(a) The Postal Service provides opportunities for consultation by elected officials of those state and local governments that would be directly affected by the Postal Service's facility project actions.\n(b) If a state adopts a process under the Order to review and coordinate proposed direct Federal development projects, the Postal Service, to the extent permitted by law:\n(1) Uses the state process to determine official views of state and local elected officials;\n(2) Communicates with state and local elected officials as early in a facility project action's planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions;\n(3) Makes efforts to accommodate state and local elected officials' concerns with proposed direct Federal development projects that are communicated through the state process; and\n(4)-(5) [Reserved]\n(6) Seeks the coordination of views of affected state and local elected officials in one state with those of another state when a proposed direct Federal development project has an impact on interstate metropolitan urban centers or other interstate areas.","path":["Title 39—Postal Service","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE","SUBCHAPTER L—SPECIAL REGULATIONS","PART 778—INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF POSTAL SERVICE FACILITY ACTIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-39.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:51Z","sha256":"1b29cd04488092c16aba48fe37b2162e313b9408fcfd6af6bdbfd4e7e18b5f8a","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/39-cfr-778.3","next":"us/39-cfr-778.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}