---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3519"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3519"
heading: "Access to information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3519"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Coordination of Federal Information Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Information Policy"
---

# §3519. Access to information


Under the conditions and procedures prescribed in [section 716 of title 31](/usc/31/716.md), the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) and personnel in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs shall furnish such information as the Comptroller General may require for the discharge of the responsibilities of the Comptroller General. For the purpose of obtaining such information, the Comptroller General or representatives thereof shall have access to all books, documents, papers and [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1), regardless of form or format, of the Office.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–13, § 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 183.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3519, added Pub. L. 96–511, § 2(a), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2825; amended Pub. L. 97–258, § 3(m)(3), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1066, related to access to information prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 104–13.

### 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.