---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13571"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13571"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13571"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter XIII — Clean Air Coal Program"
---

# §13571. Purposes


The purposes of this subchapter are to—

- (1) promote national energy policy and energy security, diversity, and economic competitiveness benefits that result from the increased use of coal;
- (2) mitigate financial risks, reduce the cost of clean coal generation, and increase the marketplace acceptance of clean coal generation and pollution control equipment and processes; and
- (3) facilitate the environmental performance of clean coal generation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XXXI, § 3101, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title IV, § 421(a), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 757.)