---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3562"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3562"
heading: "Coordination and oversight of policies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3562"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Coordination of Federal Information Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency"
  - "Part A — General"
---

# §3562. Coordination and oversight of policies

- (a) **In General.—** The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall coordinate and oversee the confidentiality and disclosure policies established by this subchapter. The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) may promulgate rules or provide other guidance to ensure consistent interpretation of this subchapter by the affected [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1). The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall develop a process by which the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) designates [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) or organizational units as statistical [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) and units. The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall promulgate guidance to implement such process, which shall include specific criteria for such designation and methods by which the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) will ensure transparency in the process.
- (b) **Agency Rules.—** Subject to [subsection (c)](#c), [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) may promulgate rules to implement this subchapter. Rules governing disclosures of information that are authorized by this subchapter shall be promulgated by the [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) that originally collected the information.
- (c) **Review and Approval of Rules.—** The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall review any rules proposed by an [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) pursuant to this subchapter for consistency with the provisions of this chapter and such rules shall be subject to the approval of the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4).
- (d) **Reports.—**
  - (1) The head of each [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) shall provide to the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) such reports and other information as the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) requests.
  - (2) Each Designated Statistical [Agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) (as defined in [section 3576(e)](/usc/44/3576.md?p=e)) shall report annually to the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4), the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate on the actions it has taken to implement section 3576. The report shall include copies of each written agreement entered into pursuant to [section 3576(c)(1)](/usc/44/3576.md?p=c-1) for the applicable year.
  - (3) The [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) shall include a summary of reports submitted to the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) under this subsection and actions taken by the [Director](/usc/44/3502.md?p=4) to advance the purposes of this subchapter in the annual report to Congress on statistical programs prepared under [section 3504(e)(2)](/usc/44/3504.md?p=e-2).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–435, title III, § 302(a), Jan. 14, 2019, 132 Stat. 5546.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019. Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Accountability of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Jan. 14, 2019, see section 403 of Pub. L. 115–435, set out as an Effective Date of 2019 Amendment note under section 306 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.