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28 CFR § 30.7 - How does the Attorney General communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t28/s30.7"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "28 CFR § 30.7 - How does the Attorney General communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?"
title_number: 28
title_name: "Judicial Administration"
section_number: "30.7"
section_name: "How does the Attorney General communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?"
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
part_number: "30"
part_name: "INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Executive Order 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30959), as amended April 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); Sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506); Sec. 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 as amended (42 U.S.C. 3334)."
regulatory_source: "Order No. 1018-83, 48 FR 29246, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "30"
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# 30.7 How does the Attorney General communicate with state and local officials concerning the Department's programs and activities?

(a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under § 30.6, the Attorney General, to the extent permitted by law:

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

(2) Communicates with state and local elected officials, through the state process, as early in a program planning cycle as is reasonably feasible to explain specific plans and actions.

(b) The Attorney General provides notice to directly affected state, areawide, regional, and local entities in a state or proposed federal financial assistance or direct federal development if:

(1) The state has not adopted a process under the Order; or

(2) The assistance or development involves a program or activity not selected for the state process.

This notice may be made by publication in the *Federal Register* or other means which the Department in its discretion deems appropriate.