---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13337"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13337"
heading: "Metallurgical coal development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13337"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Coal"
  - "Part A — Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application"
---

# §13337. Metallurgical coal development

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program on metallurgical coal utilization for the purpose of developing techniques that will lead to the greater and more efficient utilization of the Nation’s metallurgical coal resources.
- (b) The program referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall include the use of metallurgical coal—
  - (1) as a boiler fuel for the purpose of generating steam to produce electricity, including blending metallurgical coal with other coals in order to enhance its efficient application as a boiler fuel;
  - (2) as an ingredient in the manufacturing of steel; and
  - (3) as a source of pipeline quality coalbed methane.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1307, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2975.)