Sec. 211. GAO study on use of Commission resources
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The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study of the resources of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that— assesses whether the resources of the Commission are sufficient to enable the Commission to effectively carry out the duties of the Commission; examines the expenditures of the Commission on hardware, software, and analytical processes designed to protect customers in the areas of— market surveillance and risk detection; and market data collection, aggregation, interpretation, standardization, harmonization, and streamlining; analyzes the additional workload undertaken by the Commission, and ascertains where self-regulatory organizations could be more effectively utilized; and examines existing and emerging post-trade risk reduction services in the swaps market, the notional amount of risk reduction transactions provided by the services, and the effects the services have on financial stability, including— market surveillance and risk detection; market data collection, aggregation, interpretation, standardization, harmonization, and streamlining; and oversight and compliance work by market participants and regulators.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that contains the results of the study required by subsection (a).