---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17255"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17255"
heading: "Safety research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17255"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter VI — Carbon Capture and Sequestration"
  - "Part A — Carbon Capture and Sequestration Research, Development, and Demonstration"
---

# §17255. Safety research

- (a) **Program—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) shall conduct a research [program](/usc/42/17151.md?p=5) to address public health, safety, and environmental impacts that may be associated with capture, injection, and sequestration of greenhouse gases in geologic reservoirs.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated for carrying out this section $5,000,000 for each fiscal year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title VII, § 707, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1710.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.