(a) Answering request. Within four workdays after receipt from a
State agency of a request for Federal findings on a form furnished by
the State agency, and prescribed by the Department, a Federal agency
shall make such Federal findings, complete all copies of the form, and
transmit the completed copies to the State agency. If documents
necessary for completion of the form have been assigned to an agency
records center or the Federal Records Center in St. Louis, the Federal
agency shall obtain the necessary information from the records center.
Any records center shall give priority to such a request.
(b) Failure to meet time limit. If a completed form containing the
Federal agency's findings cannot be returned within four workdays of
receipt, the Federal agency immediately shall inform the State agency,
and shall include an estimated date by which the completed form will be
returned.
(c) Administrative control. Each Federal agency shall maintain a
control of all requests for Federal findings received by it, and the
Federal agency's response to each request. The records shall be
maintained so as to enable the Federal agency to ascertain at any time
the number of such forms that have not been returned to State agencies,
and the dates of the Federal agency's receipt of such unreturned forms.
