§3510 — Title 44 Public Printing and Documents | U.S. Code

Summary

The Director can order one agency to share information with another, and an agency can share information with another, as long as the sharing follows the law. If an agency gives information to another agency, the people in the receiving agency must follow the same rules and face the same penalties for improper disclosure as the people in the agency that originally got the information. They are also treated the same as if their agency had collected the information itself.

Title 44, §3510

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(a)The Director may direct an agency to make available to another agency, or an agency may make available to another agency, information obtained by a collection of information if the disclosure is not inconsistent with applicable law.

(b)(1)If information obtained by an agency is released by that agency to another agency, all the provisions of law (including penalties) that relate to the unlawful disclosure of information apply to the officers and employees of the agency to which information is released to the same extent and in the same manner as the provisions apply to the officers and employees of the agency which originally obtained the information.

(2)The officers and employees of the agency to which the information is released, in addition, shall be subject to the same provisions of law, including penalties, relating to the unlawful disclosure of information as if the information had been collected directly by that agency.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3510, added Pub. L. 96–511, § 2(a), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2822, related to cooperation of agencies in making information available prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 104–13. Another prior section 3510, Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1305, authorized promulgation of

Rules and Regulations

, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 96–511. See section 3516 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

§3510 Cooperation of Agencies in Making Information Available