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[CITE: 44USC3510]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
         CHAPTER 35--COORDINATION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY
 
Sec. 3510. Cooperation of agencies in making information 
        available
        
    (a) The Director may direct an agency to make available to another 
agency, or an agency may make available to another agency, information 
obtained by a collection of information if the disclosure is not 
inconsistent with applicable law.
    (b)(1) If information obtained by an agency is released by that 
agency to another agency, all the provisions of law (including 
penalties) that relate to the unlawful disclosure of information apply 
to the officers and employees of the agency to which information is 
released to the same extent and in the same manner as the provisions 
apply to the officers and employees of the agency which originally 
obtained the information.
    (2) The officers and employees of the agency to which the 
information is released, in addition, shall be subject to the same 
provisions of law, including penalties, relating to the unlawful 
disclosure of information as if the information had been collected 
directly by that agency.

(Added Pub. L. 104-13, Sec. 2, May 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 180.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3510, added Pub. L. 96-511, Sec. 2(a), Dec. 11, 
1980, 94 Stat. 2822, related to cooperation of agencies in making 
information available prior to the general amendment of this chapter by 
Pub. L. 104-13.
    Another prior section 3510, Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 
1305, authorized promulgation of rules and regulations, prior to the 
general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 96-511. See section 3516 of 
this title.
