---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 22"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "22"
heading: "Research and information programs; reports to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/22"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges"
---

# §22. Research and information programs; reports to Congress

- (a) The [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) 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](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) [exchanges](/usc/7/1a.md?p=1-D), [boards](/usc/7/1a.md?p=5) of trade, and by the [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) 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](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) users, and the general public; and (3) carry out the general purposes of this chapter.
- (b) The [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) shall include in its annual reports to Congress plans and findings with respect to implementing this section.

## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.