 
                CHAPTER 71--NATIONAL EDUCATION STATISTICS
 
Sec. 9008. Dissemination


(a) General requests

                           (1) In general

        The Center may furnish transcripts or copies of tables and other 
    statistical records and make special statistical compilations and 
    surveys for State and local officials, public and private 
    organizations, and individuals.

                          (2) Compilations

        The Center shall provide State and local educational agencies 
    opportunities to suggest the development of particular compilations 
    of statistics, surveys, and analyses that would assist those 
    educational agencies.

(b) Congressional requests

    The Center shall furnish such special statistical compilations and 
surveys as the Congress may request.

(c) Joint statistical projects

    The Secretary may engage in joint statistical projects related to 
the purposes of this chapter, or other statistical purposes authorized 
by law, with nonprofit organizations or agencies, and the cost of such 
projects shall be shared equitably as determined by the Secretary.

(d) Fees

                           (1) In general

        Statistical compilations and surveys under this section, other 
    than those carried out pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of this 
    section, may be made subject to the payment of the actual or 
    estimated cost of such work.

                         (2) Funds received

        All funds received in payment for work or services described in 
    this subsection may be used to pay directly the costs of such work 
    or services, to repay appropriations that initially bore all or part 
    of such costs, or to refund excess sums when necessary.

(e) Access

                         (1) Other agencies

        The Center shall, consistent with section 9007 of this title, 
    cooperate with other Federal agencies having a need for educational 
    data in providing access to educational data received by the Center.

                       (2) Interested parties

        The Center shall, in accordance with such terms and conditions 
    as the Secretary may prescribe, provide all interested parties, 
    including public and private agencies and individuals, direct access 
    to data collected by the Center for the purposes of research and 
    acquiring statistical information.

(Pub. L. 103-382, title IV, Sec. 409, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4035.)
