---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13367"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13367"
heading: "Coal exports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13367"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Coal"
  - "Part C — Other Coal Provisions"
---

# §13367. Coal exports

- (a) **Plan—** Within 180 days after October 24, 1992, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Commerce, in cooperation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) and other appropriate Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), shall submit to the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a plan for expanding exports of coal mined in the United States.
- (b) **Plan contents—** The plan submitted under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include—
  - (1) a description of the location, size, and projected growth in potential export markets for coal mined in the United States;
  - (2) the identification by country of the foreign trade barriers to the export of coal mined in the United States, including foreign coal production and utilization subsidies, tax [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11), labor [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19), tariffs, quotas, and other nontariff barriers;
  - (3) recommendations and a plan for addressing any such trade barriers;
  - (4) an evaluation of existing infrastructure in the United States and any new infrastructure requirements in the United States to support an expansion of exports of coal mined in the United States, including ports, vessels, rail lines, and any other supporting infrastructure; and
  - (5) an assessment of environmental implications of coal exports and the identification of export opportunities for blending coal mined in the United States with coal indigenous to other countries to enhance energy efficiency and environmental performance.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XIII, § 1338, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2986.)