---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 6404"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "6404"
heading: "Agency requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/6404"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — General Assistance Administration"
  - "Chapter 64 — Data Standards for Grant Reporting"
---

# §6404. Agency requirements


Not later than 1 year after the date on which guidance is issued or updated under subsection (b) or (c), respectively, of [section 6403](/usc/31/6403.md), the head of each [agency](/usc/31/6401.md?p=1) shall—

- (1) ensure that all of the [Federal awards](/usc/31/7501.md?p=a-4) that the [agency](/usc/31/6401.md?p=1) issues use data standards for all future information collection requests; and
- (2) amend existing information collection requests under [chapter 35](/usc/44/chch35.md) of title 44 (commonly known as the “Paperwork Reduction Act”) to comply with the data standards established under [section 6402](/usc/31/6402.md) of this chapter, in accordance with the guidance issued by the [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6) and the [Director](/usc/31/6101.md?p=5) under [section 6403](/usc/31/6403.md) of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–103, § 4(a), Dec. 30, 2019, 133 Stat. 3269.)