---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3513"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3513"
heading: "Director review of agency activities; reporting; agency response"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3513"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Coordination of Federal Information Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Information Policy"
---

# §3513. Director review of agency activities; reporting; agency response

- (a) In consultation with the Administrator of General Services, the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) of the United States, the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) of the Office of Personnel Management, the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall periodically review selected [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) [information resources management](/usc/44/3502.md?p=7) activities to ascertain the efficiency and effectiveness of such activities to improve [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) performance and the accomplishment of [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) missions.
- (b) Each [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) having an activity reviewed under [subsection (a)](#a) shall, within 60 days after receipt of a report on the review, provide a written plan to the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) describing steps (including milestones) to—
  - (1) be taken to address [information resources management](/usc/44/3502.md?p=7) problems identified in the report; and
  - (2) improve [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) performance and the accomplishment of [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) missions.
- (c) **Comparable Treatment.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall treat or review a rule or order prescribed or proposed by the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection on the same terms and conditions as apply to any rule or order prescribed or proposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–13, § 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 181; amended Pub. L. 111–203, title X, § 1100D(b), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2111.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3513, added Pub. L. 96–511, § 2(a), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2822; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(b)(27), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2291, related to periodic review of agency activities by Director and report of review and agency response to it prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 104–13.

### Amendments

2010—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 111–203 added subsec. (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2010 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 111–203 effective on the designated transfer date, see section 1100H of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 552a of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### 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.