42 USC § 13366 - National clearinghouse

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s13366"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 13366 - National clearinghouse"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "13366"
section_name: "National clearinghouse"
chapter_number: 134
chapter_name: "ENERGY POLICY"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "COAL"
part_number: "C"
part_name: "Other Coal Provisions"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1337, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2985.)"
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# § 13366. National clearinghouse

**(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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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1337, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2985.)