---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 40309"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "40309"
heading: "Availability of other Federal personnel and data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/40309"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Aeronautics and Space Research and Education"
  - "Chapter 403 — National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program"
---

# §40309. Availability of other Federal personnel and data


Each department, agency, or other instrumentality of the Federal Government that is engaged in or concerned with, or that has authority over, matters relating to space—

- (1) may, upon a written request from the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2), make available, on a reimbursable basis or otherwise, any personnel (with their consent and without prejudice to their position and rating), service, or facility which the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) considers necessary to carry out any provision of this chapter;
- (2) may, upon a written request from the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2), furnish any available data or other information which the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) considers necessary to carry out any provision of this chapter; and
- (3) may cooperate with the [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3388.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 40309 | 42 U.S.C. 2486i. | Pub. L. 100–147, title II, § 211, Oct. 30, 1987, 101 Stat. 875. |