---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6q"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6q"
heading: "Special procedures to encourage and facilitate bona fide hedging by agricultural producers"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6q"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges"
---

# §6q. Special procedures to encourage and facilitate bona fide hedging by agricultural producers

- (a) **Authority—** The [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) shall consider issuing rules or [orders](/usc/7/2902.md?p=10) which—
  - (1) prescribe procedures under which each [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) market is to provide for orderly delivery, including temporary storage costs, of any [agricultural commodity](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1) enumerated in [section 1a(9) of this title](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) which is the subject of a [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) for purchase or sale for [future delivery](/usc/7/1a.md?p=27);
  - (2) increase the ease with which domestic agricultural [producers](/usc/7/6802.md?p=4-A-iii-III-bb) may participate in [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) markets, including by addressing cost and margin requirements, so as to better enable the [producers](/usc/7/6802.md?p=4-A-iii-III-bb) to hedge price risk associated with their production;
  - (3) provide flexibility in the minimum quantities of such [agricultural commodities](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1) that may be the subject of a [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) for purchase or sale for [future delivery](/usc/7/1a.md?p=27) that is traded on a [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) market, to better allow domestic agricultural [producers](/usc/7/6802.md?p=4-A-iii-III-bb) to hedge such price risk; and
  - (4) encourage [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) markets to provide information and otherwise facilitate the participation of domestic agricultural [producers](/usc/7/6802.md?p=4-A-iii-III-bb) in [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) markets.
- (b) **Report—** Within 1 year after December 21, 2000, the [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) shall submit to the [Committee](/usc/7/2132.md?p=n) on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the [Committee](/usc/7/2132.md?p=n) on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report on the steps it has taken to implement this section and on the activities of [contract](/usc/7/518.md?p=4) markets pursuant to this section.

## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 4q, formerly § 4p, as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 121], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–404; renumbered § 4q, Pub. L. 110–234, title XIII, § 13105(d), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1434, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIII, § 13105(d), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2196; Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, § 721(e)(3), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1671.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 both renumbered this section as section 4q of act Sept. 21, 1922. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234.

Section was formerly classified to section 6o–1 of this title.

### Amendments

2010—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 111–203 substituted “section 1a(9)” for “section 1a(4)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2010 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 111–203 effective on the later of 360 days after July 21, 2010, or, to the extent a provision of subtitle A (§§ 711–754) of title VII of Pub. L. 111–203 requires a rulemaking, not less than 60 days after publication of the final rule or regulation implementing such provision of subtitle A, see section 754 of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 1a of this title.