---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3517"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3517"
heading: "Consultation with other agencies and the public"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3517"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Coordination of Federal Information Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Information Policy"
---

# §3517. Consultation with other agencies and the public

- (a) In developing [information resources management](/usc/44/3502.md?p=7) policies, plans, rules, regulations, procedures, and guidelines and in reviewing collections of information, the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall provide interested [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) and [persons](/usc/44/3502.md?p=10) early and meaningful opportunity to comment.
- (b) Any [person](/usc/44/3502.md?p=10) may request the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) to review any [collection of information](/usc/44/3502.md?p=3) conducted by or for an [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) to determine, if, under this subchapter, a [person](/usc/44/3502.md?p=10) shall maintain, provide, or disclose the information to or for the [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1). Unless the request is frivolous, the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall, in coordination with the [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) responsible for the [collection of information](/usc/44/3502.md?p=3)—
  - (1) respond to the request within 60 days after receiving the request, unless such period is extended by the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) to a specified date and the [person](/usc/44/3502.md?p=10) making the request is given notice of such extension; and
  - (2) take appropriate remedial action, if necessary.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–13, § 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 182; amended Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1064(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–275.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3517, added Pub. L. 96–511, § 2(a), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2824, related to consultation with other agencies and the public prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 104–13.

### Amendments

2000—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–398 substituted “subchapter” for “chapter” in introductory provisions.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2000 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 106–398 effective 30 days after Oct. 30, 2000, see section 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1065] of Pub. L. 106–398, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, formerly set out as an Effective Date note under former section 3531 of this title.

### 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.