{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s13366","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f13366.","heading":"National clearinghouse","text":"\u00a7\u202f13366.\nNational clearinghouse\n(a)\nFeasibility\n(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.\n(2) In assessing the feasibility, the Secretary shall consider whether such a clearinghouse would be appropriate for purposes of\u2014\n(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;\n(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;\n(C) maintaining a library of technology publications and treatises relating to technology information and data collected pursuant to this section;\n(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;\n(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;\n(F) translating into English foreign research papers, articles, seminar proceedings, test results that affect, or could affect, clean coal use technology, and other documents;\n(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;\n(H) establishing and maintaining an index or compilation of research projects relating to clean coal technology carried out throughout the world; and\n(I) conducting economic modeling for feasibility of projects.\n(b)\nAuthority to establish clearinghouse\nBased upon the assessment under subsection (a), the Secretary may establish a clearinghouse.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s13366.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f13366."},{"t":"heading","text":"National clearinghouse"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Feasibility"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" In assessing the feasibility, the Secretary shall consider whether such a clearinghouse would be appropriate for purposes of\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" disseminating to appropriate individuals, governmental departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, institutions of higher education, and other entities, information and data collected pursuant to this section;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/C","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(C)"},{"t":"content","text":" maintaining a library of technology publications and treatises relating to technology information and data collected pursuant to this section;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/D","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(D)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/E","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(E)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/F","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(F)"},{"t":"content","text":" translating into English foreign research papers, articles, seminar proceedings, test results that affect, or could affect, clean coal use technology, and other documents;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/G","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(G)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/H","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(H)"},{"t":"content","text":" establishing and maintaining an index or compilation of research projects relating to clean coal technology carried out throughout the world; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/a/2/I","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(I)"},{"t":"content","text":" conducting economic modeling for feasibility of projects.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s13366/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Authority to establish clearinghouse"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Based upon the assessment under subsection (a), the Secretary may establish a clearinghouse.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}