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[CITE: 42USC13335]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 134--ENERGY POLICY
 
                           SUBCHAPTER VI--COAL
 
Part A--Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application
 
Sec. 13335. Coal refinery program


(a) Program

    The Secretary shall conduct a program of research, development, 
demonstration, and commercial application for coal refining 
technologies.

(b) Objectives

    The program shall include technologies for refining high sulfur 
coals, low sulfur coals, sub-bituminous coals, and lignites to produce 
clean-burning transportation fuels, compliance boiler fuels, fuel 
additives, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, and carbon-based 
manufactured products, either alone or in conjunction with the 
generation of electricity or process heat, or the manufacture of a 
variety of products from coal. The objectives of such program shall be 
to achieve--
        (1) the timely commercial application of technologies, including 
    mild gasification, hydrocracking and other hydropyrolysis processes, 
    and other energy production processes or systems to produce coal-
    derived fuels and coproducts, which achieve greater efficiency and 
    economy in the conversion of coal to electrical energy and 
    coproducts than currently available technology;
        (2) the production of energy, fuels, and products which, on a 
    complete energy system basis, will result in environmental emissions 
    no greater than those produced by existing comparable energy systems 
    utilized for the same purpose;
        (3) the capability to produce a range of coal-derived 
    transportation fuels, including oxygenated hydrocarbons, boiler 
    fuels, turbine fuels, and coproducts, which can reduce dependence on 
    imported oil by displacing conventional petroleum in the 
    transportation sector and other sectors of the economy;
        (4) reduction in the cost of producing such coal-derived fuels 
    and coproducts;
        (5) the control of emissions from the combustion of coal-derived 
    fuels; and
        (6) the availability for commercial use of such technologies by 
    the year 2000.

(Pub. L. 102-486, title XIII, Sec. 1305, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2973.)
