Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§13366 National clearinghouse

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 134— - ENERGY POLICY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - COAL › Part Part C— - Other Coal Provisions › § 13366

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must study whether it is practical to create a national clearinghouse to collect and share technical information about coal and fuels made from coal. The study must look at whether the clearinghouse would do 9 things, such as gathering and sharing technology data, keeping a library, running seminars, tracking research grants and global projects, translating foreign research into English, encouraging tests using different U.S. coals and collecting results, and doing economic modeling. If the study shows it is feasible, the Secretary may set up the clearinghouse.

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Title 42, §13366

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(a)(1)The Secretary shall assess the feasibility of establishing a national clearinghouse for the exchange and dissemination of technical information on technology relating to coal and coal-derived fuels.

(2)In assessing the feasibility, the Secretary shall consider whether such a clearinghouse would be appropriate for purposes of—

(A)collecting information and data on technology relating to coal, and coal-derived fuels, which can be utilized to improve environmental quality and increase energy independence;

(B)disseminating to appropriate individuals, governmental departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, institutions of higher education, and other entities, information and data collected pursuant to this section;

(C)maintaining a library of technology publications and treatises relating to technology information and data collected pursuant to this section;

(D)organizing and conducting seminars for government officials, utilities, coal companies, and other entities or institutions relating to technology using coal and coal-derived fuels that will improve environmental quality and increase energy independence;

(E)gathering information on research grants made for the purpose of improving or enhancing technology relating to the use of coal, and coal-derived fuels, which will improve environmental quality and increase energy independence;

(F)translating into English foreign research papers, articles, seminar proceedings, test results that affect, or could affect, clean coal use technology, and other documents;

(G)encouraging, during the testing of technologies, the use of coal from a variety of domestic sources, and collecting or developing, or both, complete listings of test results using coals from all sources;

(H)establishing and maintaining an index or compilation of research projects relating to clean coal technology carried out throughout the world; and

(I)conducting economic modeling for feasibility of projects.

(b)Based upon the assessment under subsection (a), the Secretary may establish a clearinghouse.

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42 U.S.C. § 13366

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73