12 U.S.C. § 14a — Data standards; open data publication

(a) Data standards — (1) Requirement: The Comptroller of the Currency must create, through rule-making, data standards covering every regular filing or submission that entities send to the Comptroller, where the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is that entity's main federal banking regulator (as defined in section 1813 of this title). (2) Consistency: These new data standards must line up with, and work together with, the data standards already created under section 5334 of this title, as much as this is realistically possible — including, where practical, matching the features listed in clauses (i) through (vi) of section 5334(c)(1)(B). (b) Open data publication — Any public data the Comptroller publishes under title LXII, or under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, must meet four requirements: (1) it must count as an "open Government data asset" as defined in section 3502 of title 44; (2) people must be able to download it for free; (3) it must be presented in a format a person can read; and (4) where it makes sense, people must be able to get it through an application programming interface (API) — a way for other computer programs to pull the data automatically.