(a) Upon special call from the Commission or its designee, each contract market shall furnish or cause to be furnished promptly to the Commission for the futures or option contracts specified in the call a copy of each notice of delivery issued by any member thereof subject to the rules of such contract market, and shall also furnish or cause to be furnished promptly to the Commission a record of all endorsements of the original notice of delivery shown in the order in which such endorsements were made. For the purposes of this paragraph the Commission hereby delegates to the Director of the Division of Economic Analysis, or to such other person designated by the Director, authority to issue calls for information contained in this section.

(b) Any contract market may provide the required delivery notice information on compatible data processing punched cards, magnetic tapes, magnetic discs, computer printouts, or other means: Provided, That the format and coding structure and the nature of the information contained thereon have been approved in writing by the Commission. A complete and accurate computer listing of any information supplied via data processing media must also be provided by an officer of the contract market at the time information via data processing media is supplied.

(c) For the purposes of this section, the term “delivery” includes the exercise of a commodity option on a physical but does not include any futures contract or option on a physical which is settled in cash rather than by delivery of the underlying commodity or underlying physical.