Federal · Title 42 — Public Health and Welfare
42 U.S.C. § 13336: Coalbed methane recovery
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technical, economic, financial, legal, regulatory, institutional, or other barriers to coalbed methane recovery, and of policy options for eliminating such barriers; and the environmental and safety aspects of flaring coalbed methane liberated from coal mines. Beginning one year after October 24, 1992 , the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of the Interior, shall disseminate to the public information on state-of-the-art coalbed methane recovery techniques, including information on costs and benefits. gas enrichment technologies for enriching medium-quality methane recovered from coal mines to pipeline quality; technologies to use mine ventilation air in nearby power generation facilities, including gas turbines, internal combustion engines, or other coal fired powerplants; technologies for cofiring methane recovered from mines, including methane from ventilation systems and degasification systems, together with coal in conventional or clean coal technology boilers; and other technologies for producing and using methane from coal mines that the Secretary considers appropriate.
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