---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13333"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13333"
heading: "Clean coal, waste-to-energy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13333"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Coal"
  - "Part A — Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application"
---

# §13333. Clean coal, waste-to-energy


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall establish a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application with respect to the use of solid waste combined with coal as a fuel source for clean coal combustion technologies. The program shall address—

- (1) the feasibility of cofiring coal and used vehicle tires in fluidized bed combustion units;
- (2) the combined gasification of coal and municipal sludge using integrated gasification combined cycle technology;
- (3) the creation of fuel pellets combining coal and material reclaimed from solid waste;
- (4) the feasibility of cofiring, in fluidized bed combustion units, waste methane from coal mines, including ventilation air, together with coal or coal wastes; and
- (5) other sources of waste and coal mixtures in other applications that the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) considers appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1303, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2972.)