Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§13366 National Clearinghouse

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must study whether it makes sense to create a national clearinghouse to collect and share technical information about coal and coal-derived fuel technologies. The study must look at nine things, such as collecting data to help the environment and U.S. energy independence; sharing information with governments, schools, and others; keeping a library; running seminars; tracking research grants and test results; translating foreign research into English; encouraging tests with coal from different U.S. sources and collecting those results; listing related projects worldwide; and doing economic modeling. If the study finds it is feasible, the Secretary may set up the clearinghouse.

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Title 42, §13366

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(a)Feasibility

(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)Authority to establish clearinghouse

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

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 13366

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110