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[CITE: 44USC1907]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
                 CHAPTER 19--DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM
 
Sec. 1907. Libraries of executive departments, service 
        academies, and independent agencies constituted depositories; 
        certifications of need; disposal of unwanted publications
        
    The libraries of the executive departments, of the United States 
Military Academy, of the United States Naval Academy, of the United 
States Air Force Academy, of the United States Coast Guard Academy, and 
of the United States Merchant Marine Academy are designated depositories 
of Government publications. A depository library within each independent 
agency may be designated upon certification of need by the head of the 
independent agency to the Superintendent of Documents. Additional 
depository libraries within executive departments and independent 
agencies may be designated to receive Government publications to the 
extent that the number so designated does not exceed the number of major 
bureaus or divisions of the departments and independent agencies. These 
designations may be made only after certification by the head of each 
executive department or independent agency to the Superintendent of 
Documents as to the justifiable need for additional depository 
libraries. Depository libraries within executive departments and 
independent agencies may dispose of unwanted Government publications 
after first offering them to the Library of Congress and the Archivist 
of the United States.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1285.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 87 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, 
Sec. 98, 28 Stat. 624; Aug. 9, 1962, Pub. L. 87-579, Sec. 7, 76 Stat. 
355).


                     Archivist of the United States

    References to Archivist of the United States deemed to refer to 
Archivist appointed under section 2103 of this title with respect to 
functions transferred by Pub. L. 98-497 or an amendment made by Pub. L. 
98-497 and exercised after Apr. 1, 1985, see sections 106 and 108 of 
Pub. L. 98-497, set out as notes under section 2102 of this title.
