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44 CFR § 4.7 - How does the Administrator communicate with State and local officials concerning FEMA's programs and activities?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t44/s4.7"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "44 CFR § 4.7 - How does the Administrator communicate with State and local officials concerning FEMA's programs and activities?"
title_number: 44
title_name: "Emergency Management and Assistance"
section_number: "4.7"
section_name: "How does the Administrator communicate with State and local officials concerning FEMA's programs and activities?"
chapter_name: "FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL"
part_number: "4"
part_name: "INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "E.O. 12372, July 14, 1982 (47 FR 30959), as amended April 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); sec. 401, Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506); sec. 204, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3334)."
regulatory_source: "48 FR 29316, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "4"
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# 4.7 How does the Administrator communicate with State and local officials concerning FEMA's programs and activities?

(a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under § 4.6, the Administrator, 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 Administrator provides notice to directly affected State, areawide, regional, and local entities in a State of 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 appropriate means, which FEMA in its discretion deems appropriate.