{"data":{"id":"us/39-cfr-778.9","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"39 CFR 778.9","heading":"How does the Postal Service receive and respond to comments?","body":"(a) The Postal Service follows the procedures in § 778.10 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 for a facility project action of a category selected under § 778.6.\n(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.\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 does not submit a state process recommendation, state, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments directly to the Postal Service.\n(d) If a facility project action is not selected for a state process, state, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments directly to the Postal Service. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a nonselected facility project action is transmitted to the Postal Service by the single point of contact, the Postal Service follows the procedures of § 778.10.\n(e) The Postal Service considers comments which do not constitute a state process recommendation submitted under these regulations and for which the Postal Service is not required to apply the procedures of § 778.10 when such comments are provided by a single point of contact or directly to the Postal Service by a commenting party.","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":"6cc617f0a244dec683a3ccd37a7f08058774ee5715434de78791de6a1ac247f7","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/39-cfr-778.8","next":"us/39-cfr-778.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}