---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 2257"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "2257"
heading: "Reports on conditions of institutions receiving loans or deposits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/2257"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Farm Credit System"
  - "Subchapter V — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
  - "Part B — Farm Credit Administration Organization"
---

# §2257. Reports on conditions of institutions receiving loans or deposits


The executive departments, [boards](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-3), commissions, and independent establishments of the Government of the United States, the Federal Deposit Insurance [Corporation](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=2), the Comptroller of the Currency, the [Board](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-3) of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve banks are severally authorized under such conditions as they may prescribe, upon request of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration, to make available to it or to any [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the System in confidence all reports, records, or other information relating to the condition of any organization to which such [institution](/usc/12/2271.md?p=3) of the System has made or contemplates making loan or for which it has or contemplates discounting paper, or which it is using or contemplates using as a custodian of securities or other [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) instruments, or a depository. The Federal Reserve banks in their capacity as depositories, agents, and custodians for bonds, debentures, and other obligations issued by the banks of the System or book entries thereof are also authorized and directed, upon request of the Farm [Credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) Administration, to make available for audit by farm [credit](/usc/12/5481.md?p=7) examiners all appropriate books, accounts, financial records, files, and other papers.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–181, title V, § 5.22, formerly § 5.23, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 624; renumbered § 5.22, Pub. L. 99–205, title II, § 203(b), Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1694.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5.22 of Pub. L. 92–181 was renumbered section 5.21 and is classified to section 2256 of this title.