---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5063"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5063"
heading: "Reduction of paperwork"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5063"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administration and Coordination"
---

# §5063. Reduction of paperwork


In order to reduce unnecessary, duplicative, or disruptive demands for information, the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1), in consultation with other appropriate [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and organizations, shall continually review and evaluate all requests for information made under this chapter and take such action as may be necessary to reduce the paperwork required under this chapter. The [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1) shall request only such information as the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1) deems essential to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–113, title IV, § 423, as added Pub. L. 96–143, § 14(a), Dec. 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 1081.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–113, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 394, known as the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4950 of this title and Tables.