§ 79.4 - What are the Secretary's general responsibilities under the Order?

§ 79.4 What are the Secretary's general responsibilities under the Order?

Cross Reference

Link to an amendment published at 89 FR 70343, Aug. 29, 2024.

Cross Reference

Link to a correction published at 89 FR 79147, Sept. 27, 2024.

(a) The Secretary provides opportunities for consultation by elected officials of those state State and local governments that would provide the nonfederal funds for, or that would be directly affected by, proposed federal financial assistance from the Department.

(b) If a state State adopts a process under the Order to review and coordinate proposed federal financial assistance, the Secretary, to the extent permitted by law:

(1) Uses the state State process to determine official views of state State and local elected officials;

(2) Communicates with state State and local elected officials as early in a program planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions;

(3) Makes efforts to accommodate state State and local elected officialofficials' s concerns with proposed federal financial assistance that are communicated through the state State process;

(4) Allows the states States to simplify and consolidate existing federally required state State plan submissions;

(5) Where state State planning and budgeting systems are sufficient and where permitted by law, encourages the substitution of state State plans for federally required state State plans;

(6) Seeks the coordination of views of affected state State and local elected officials in one state State with those of another state State when proposed federal financial assistance has an impact on interstate metropolitan urban centers or other interstate areas; and

(7) Supports state State and local governments by discouraging the reauthorization or creation of any planning organization which is federally funded, which has a limited purpose, and which is not adequately representative of, or accountable to, state State or local elected officials.

(Authority: E.O. 12372, Sec. 2)

[48 FR 29166, June 24, 1983, as amended at 89 FR 70343, Aug. 29, 2024]