---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15965"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15965"
heading: "Time limit for award; extension"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15965"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IV — Coal"
  - "Part A — Clean Coal Power Initiative"
---

# §15965. Time limit for award; extension


If a Clean Coal Power Initiative [project](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12) selected after March 11, 2009, for negotiation under this or any other Act in any fiscal year, is not awarded within 2 years from the date the application was selected, negotiations shall cease and the Federal funds committed to the application shall be retained by the [Department](/usc/42/15801.md?p=1) for future coal-related research, development and demonstration [projects](/usc/42/16371.md?p=12), except that the time limit may be extended at the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4)’s discretion for matters outside the control of the applicant, or if the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) determines that extension of the time limit is in the public interest.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–8, div. C, title III, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 616.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, and also as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, and not as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which comprises this chapter.