45 CFR § 660.7 - How does the Director communicate with state and local officials concerning the Foundation's programs and activities?
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t45/s660.7"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "45 CFR § 660.7 - How does the Director communicate with state and local officials concerning the Foundation's programs and activities?"
title_number: 45
title_name: "Public Welfare"
section_number: "660.7"
section_name: "How does the Director communicate with state and local officials concerning the Foundation's programs and activities?"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION"
part_number: "660"
part_name: "INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 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 Apr. 8, 1983 (48 FR 15887); and sec. 401 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 and as amended (31 U.S.C. 6506)."
regulatory_source: "48 FR 29365, June 24, 1983, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "660"
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# 660.7 How does the Director communicate with state and local officials concerning the Foundation's programs and activities?
(a) For those programs and activities covered by a state process under § 660.6, the Director, 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 Director 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 the Foundation in its discretion deems appropriate.