{"data":{"id":"us/44-cfr-4.9","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"44 CFR 4.9","heading":"How does the Administrator receive and respond to comments?","body":"(a) The Administrator follows the procedures in § 4.10 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 § 4.6.\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 is unable to submit a state process recommendation, State, areawide, regional and local officials and entities may submit comments to FEMA.\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 FEMA. In addition, if a state process recommendation for a nonselected program or activity is transmitted to FEMA by the single point of contact, the Administrator follows the procedures of § 4.10 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 § 4.10 of this part, when such comments are provided by a single point of contact, by the applicant or directly to FEMA by a commenting party.","path":["Title 44—Emergency Management and Assistance","CHAPTER I—FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL","PART 4—INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-44.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:15Z","sha256":"0d5a5dbb16067dff6756a0c9d3961e38086b597354119d0c4a2158f9670dff9e","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/44-cfr-4.8","next":"us/44-cfr-4.10"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}