---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3510"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3510"
heading: "Cooperation of agencies in making information available"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3510"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Coordination of Federal Information Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Information Policy"
---

# §3510. Cooperation of agencies in making information available

- (a) The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) may direct an [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) to make available to another [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1), or an [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) may make available to another [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1), information obtained by a [collection of information](/usc/44/3502.md?p=3) if the disclosure is not inconsistent with applicable law.
- (b)
  - (1) If information obtained by an [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) is released by that [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) to another [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1), all the provisions of law (including [penalties](/usc/44/3502.md?p=14)) that relate to the unlawful disclosure of information apply to the officers and employees of the [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) 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](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) which originally obtained the information.
  - (2) The officers and employees of the [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) to which the information is released, in addition, shall be subject to the same provisions of law, including [penalties](/usc/44/3502.md?p=14), relating to the unlawful disclosure of information as if the information had been collected directly by that [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–13, § 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 180.)

## Notes

### 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.