---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13366"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13366"
heading: "National clearinghouse"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13366"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Coal"
  - "Part C — Other Coal Provisions"
---

# §13366. National clearinghouse

- (a) **Feasibility—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) 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.
  - (2) In assessing the feasibility, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall consider whether such a clearinghouse would be appropriate for purposes of—
    - (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](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-B);
    - (B) disseminating to appropriate individuals, governmental departments, [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), and instrumentalities, institutions of higher education, and other entities, information and data collected pursuant to this section;
    - (C) maintaining a library of technology publications and treatises relating to technology information and data collected pursuant to this section;
    - (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](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-B);
    - (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](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-B);
    - (F) translating into English foreign research papers, articles, seminar proceedings, test results that affect, or could affect, clean coal use technology, and other documents;
    - (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;
    - (H) establishing and maintaining an index or compilation of research [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) relating to clean coal technology carried out throughout the world; and
    - (I) conducting economic modeling for feasibility of [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2).
- (b) **Authority to establish clearinghouse—** Based upon the assessment under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) may establish a clearinghouse.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1337, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2985.)