---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 1722"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "1722"
heading: "Departmental distribution of publications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/1722"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Distribution and Sale of Public Documents"
---

# §1722. Departmental distribution of publications


Government publications printed for or received by the executive departments, whether for official use or for distribution, except those required by [section 1701 of this title](/usc/44/1701.md) to be distributed by the Director of the Government Publishing Office, shall be distributed by a competent person detailed to this duty in each department by the head of the department. He shall prevent duplication and make detailed report to the head of the department.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1282; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 96 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 92, 28 Stat. 623; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, § 1(2), 45 Stat. 986).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer”.