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 PUBLIC LAW 95-620—NOV. 9, 1978

92 STAT. 3291

TITLE VIII—MISCELTiANEOUS PROVISIONS Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec. Sec.

801. 802. 803. 804. 805. 806. 807.

Coal reserves disclosure. Goal preparation facilities. Railroad rehabilitation for carriage of coal. Office of Rail Public Counsel. Retroactive application of certain remedial orders. Annual report. Submission of rejwrts. TITLE IX—EFFECTIVE DATES

Sec. 901. Sec. 902.

Effective date. Interim petition and consideration for certain exemptions.

SEC. 102. FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF PURPOSES. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 42 USC 8301. (1) the protection of public health and welfare, the preservation of national security, and the regulation of interstate commerce require the establishment of a program for the expended use, consistent with applicable environmental requirements, of coal and other alternate fuels as p r i m a r y energy sources for exist- ing and new electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations; and (2) the purposes of this Act are furthered in cases in which coal or other alternate fuels are used by electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations, consistent with applicable environmental requirements, as p r i m a r y energy sources in lieu of natural gas or petroleum. (b) STATEMENT or PURPOSES.—The purpose of this Act, which shall be carried out in a manner consistent with applicable environmental requirements, are— (1) to reduce the importation of petroleum and increase the Nation's capability to use indigenous energy resources of the United States to the extent such reduction and use further the " goal of national energy self-sufficiency and otherwise are in the best interests of the United States; (2) to conserve natural gas and petroleum for uses, other than electric utility or other industrial or commercial generation of steam or electricity, for which there are no feasible alternative fuels or raw material substitutes; (3) to encourage and foster the greater use of coal and other • alternate fuels, in lieu of natural gas and petroleum, as a p r i m a r y energy source; (4) to the extent permitted by this Act, to encourage the use of synthetic gas derived from coal or other alternate fuels; (5) to encourage the rehabilitation and u p g r a d i n g of railroad service and equipment necessary to transport coal to regions or States which can use coal in greater quantities; (6) to prohibit or, as appropriate, minimize the use of natural gas and petroleum as a primary energy source and to conserve generations; (7) to encourage the modernization or replacement of existing and new electric powerplants and major fuel-burning installations which utilize natural gas or petroleum as a p r i m a r y energy source and which cannot utilize coal or other alternate fuels where to do so furthers the conservation of natural gas and petroleum; (8) to require that existing and new electric powerplants and ' ' major fuel-burning installations which utilize natural gas, petro-
 * ' such gas and petroleum for the benefit of present and future

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