Federal · Title 42 — Public Health and Welfare
42 U.S.C. § 13335: Coal refinery program
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The Secretary shall conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for coal refining technologies. 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; 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; 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; reduction in the cost of producing such coal-derived fuels and coproducts; the control of emissions from the combustion of coal-derived fuels; and the availability for commercial use of such technologies by the year 2000.
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