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[CITE: 7USC22]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                     CHAPTER 1--COMMODITY EXCHANGES
 
Sec. 22. Research and information programs; reports to Congress

    (a) The Commission shall establish and maintain, as part of its 
ongoing operations, research and information programs to (1) determine 
the feasibility of trading by computer, and the expanded use of modern 
information system technology, electronic data processing, and modern 
communication systems by commodity exchanges, boards of trade, and by 
the Commission itself for purposes of improving, strengthening, 
facilitating, or regulating futures trading operations; (2) assist in 
the development of educational and other informational materials 
regarding futures trading for dissemination and use among producers, 
market users, and the general public; and (3) carry out the general 
purposes of this chapter.
    (b) The Commission shall include in its annual reports to Congress 
plans and findings with respect to implementing this section.

(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, Sec. 18, as added Pub. L. 93-463, title IV, 
Sec. 416, Oct. 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 1415.)


                             Effective Date

    For effective date of section, see section 418 of Pub. L. 93-463, 
set out as an Effective Date of 1974 Amendment note under section 2 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 16 of this title.
