---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13338"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13338"
heading: "Utilization of coal wastes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13338"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Coal"
  - "Part A — Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application"
---

# §13338. Utilization of coal wastes

- (a) **Coal waste utilization program—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Interior, shall establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program on coal waste utilization for the purpose of developing techniques that will lead to the greater and more efficient utilization of coal wastes from mining and processing, other than coal ash.
- (b) **Use as boiler fuel—** The program referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall include [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) to facilitate the use of coal wastes from mining and processing as a boiler fuel for the purpose of generating steam to produce electricity.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1308, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2975.)