20 U.S.C. § 9546 — Dissemination

(a) General requests
(1) In general The Statistics Center can 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 people.
(2) Compilations The Statistics Center must provide State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education with opportunities to suggest the establishment of particular compilations of statistics, surveys, and analyses that will assist those educational agencies.

(b) Congressional requests The Statistics Center must furnish such special statistical compilations and surveys as the relevant congressional committees can request.

(c) Joint statistical projects The Statistics Center can engage in joint statistical projects related to the mission of the Center, or other statistical purposes authorized by law, with nonprofit organizations or agencies, and the cost of such projects must 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 under subsections

(b) and (c), can 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 can 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 Statistics Center must, consistent with section 9573 of this title , cooperate with other Federal agencies having a need for educational data in providing access to educational data received by the Statistics Center.
(2) Interested parties The Statistics Center must, under such terms and conditions as the Center can prescribe, provide all interested parties, including public and private agencies, parents, and other people, direct access, in the most appropriate form (including, where possible, electronically), to data collected by the Statistics Center for the purposes of research and acquiring statistical information.

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