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PUBLIC LAW 90-620-OCT. 22, 1968

[82 STAT.

be heard or to submit statements in writing. To the extent, if any, that the Director determines the collection of information by the agency is unnecessary, for any reason, the agency may not engage in the collection of the information. § 3507. Cooperation of agencies in making information available For the purposes of this chapter, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may require a Federal agency to make available to another Federal agency information obtained from any person after December 24, 1942, and all agencies are directed to cooperate to the fullest practicable extent at all times in making information available to other agencies. This chapter does not apply to the obtaining or releasing of information by the Internal Revenue Service, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Bureau of the Public Debt, the Bureau of Accounts, and the Division of Foreign Funds Control of the Treasury Department, nor to the obtaining by a Federal bank supervisory agency of reports and information from banks as authorized by law and in the proper performance of the agency's functions in its supervisory capacity. § 3508. Unlawful disclosure of information; penalties; release of information to other agencies (a) If information obtained in confidence by a Federal agency is released by that agency to another Federal agency, all the provisions of law including penalties which 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. 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. (b) Information obtained by a Federal agency from a person under this chapter may be released to another Federal agency only— (1) in the form of statistical totals or summaries; or (2) if the information as supplied by persons to a Federal agency had not, at the time of collection, been declared by that agency or by a superior authority to be confidential; or (3) when the persons supplying the information consent to the release of it to a second agency by the agency to which the information was originally supplied; or (4) when the Federal agency to which another Federal agency releases the information has authority to collect the information itself and the authority is supported by legal provision for criminal penalties against persons failing to supply the information. § 3509. Plans or forms for collecting information; submission to Director; approval A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor the collection of information upon identical items, from ten or more persons, other than Federal employees, unless, in advance of adoption or revision of any plans or forms to be used in the collection— (1) the agency has submitted to the Director the plans or forms, together with copies of pertinent regulations and of other related materials as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget has specified; and (2) the Director has stated that he does not disapprove the proposed collection of information.

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