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§3509 Designation of Central Collection Agency

Title 44 › CHAPTER 35 — COORDINATION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY › SUBCHAPTER I — FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY › § 3509

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director can pick one central agency to collect information for two or more other agencies when one agency can meet their needs and sharing the data is allowed by law. The Director must set what the central agency and the covered agencies will do and how costs will be paid. While that designation is in effect, any covered agency may not collect information that the central agency is supposed to collect. The Director can change the designation as needed. This authority is subject to section 3507(f).

Full Legal Text

Title 44, §3509

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The Director may designate a central collection agency to obtain information for two or more agencies if the Director determines that the needs of such agencies for information will be adequately served by a single collection agency, and such sharing of data is not inconsistent with applicable law. In such cases the Director shall prescribe (with reference to the collection of information) the duties and functions of the collection agency so designated and of the agencies for which it is to act as agent (including reimbursement for costs). While the designation is in effect, an agency covered by the designation may not obtain for itself information for the agency which is the duty of the collection agency to obtain. The Director may modify the designation from time to time as circumstances require. The authority to designate under this section is subject to the provisions of section 3507(f) of this subchapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3509, added Pub. L. 96–511, § 2(a), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2821, related to designation of central collection agency prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 104–13. Another prior section 3509, Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1304, related to plans or forms for collecting information, submission to Director, and his approval, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 96–511.

Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–398 substituted “subchapter” for “chapter”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2000 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 106–398 effective 30 days after Oct. 30, 2000, see section 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1065] of Pub. L. 106–398, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, formerly set out as an

Effective Date

note under former section 3531 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1995, except as otherwise provided, see section 4(a) of Pub. L. 104–13, set out as a note under section 3501 of this title.

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Citation

44 U.S.C. § 3509

Title 44, Public Printing and Documents

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102