{"data":{"id":"us/40-cfr-29.9","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"40 CFR 29.9","heading":"How does the Administrator receive and respond to comments?","body":"(a) The Administrator follows the procedures in § 29.10 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 program selected under § 29.6.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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 § 29.10 of this part.\n(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 § 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.","path":["Title 40—Protection of Environment","CHAPTER I—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL","PART 29—INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-40.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:04Z","sha256":"c2c0d423c4f86c08cfd399459e2577f954c49cd152c0f8571feec119dad5307c","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/40-cfr-29.8","next":"us/40-cfr-29.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}