---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1721"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1721"
heading: "Exchange of documents by heads of departments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1721"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Distribution and Sale of Public Documents"
---

# §1721. Exchange of documents by heads of departments


Heads of departments may exchange surplus documents for other documents and books required by them, when it is to the advantage of the public service.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1282.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 93 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 95, 28 Stat. 623).