---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17256"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17256"
heading: "University based research and development grant program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17256"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter VI — Carbon Capture and Sequestration"
  - "Part A — Carbon Capture and Sequestration Research, Development, and Demonstration"
---

# §17256. University based research and development grant program

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3), in consultation with other appropriate [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), shall establish a university based research and development [program](/usc/42/17151.md?p=5) to study carbon capture and sequestration using the various types of coal.
- (b) **Rural and agricultural institutions—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) shall give special consideration to rural or agricultural based institutions in areas that have regional sources of coal and that offer interdisciplinary [programs](/usc/42/17151.md?p=5) in the area of environmental science to study carbon capture and sequestration.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are to be authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title VII, § 708, 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.