Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 3.djvu/709

 PUBLIC LAW 95-620—NOV. 9, 1978

92 STAT. 3341

(c) AUTHORIZATION^ OP APPROPRIATIONS.—There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for allocation between the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency for fiscal years 1979 and 1980, not to exceed $18,000,000, for use in carrying out the purposes of this section. SEC. 742. COAL INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE AND COMPETITION STUDY. (a) STUDY.—The Secretary shall make a complete investigation of 42 USC 8452. the performance and competition of the coal industry. The study shall Interagency be an interagency effort under the direction of the Secretary and shall participants, include participation by— (1) the Federal Trade Commission, (2) the Department of Justice, (3) the Department of Energy, r4) the Federal Energy Eegulatory Commission, (5) the Department of the Interior, (6) the Department of Transportation, (7) the Department of Commerce, (8) the Department of Labor, (9) the Department of State, (10) the Department of the Treasury, (11) the Interstate Commerce Commission, (12) the Council on Wage and Price Stability, (13) the Tennessee Valley Authority, and (14) the Appalachian Regional Commission. (b) COVERAGE OF STUDY.—The study shall consider the following elements relating to competition: (1) interests in, or ownership or production of, coal reserves by firms which— (A) own or have an interest in commodity transportation systems by rail, water, or pipeline, (B) own or produce oil, natural gas, or uranium, or (C) use significant amounts of coal in their processes, including electrical generation and steelmaking, (2) prices, profitability, and levels of concentration in sales of various identifiable submarket structures in the coal industry, including the market for— ,, (A) steam and metallurgical coal, ,.;^ (B) low-sulfur coal, (C) lignite, anthracite, bituminous and subbituminous coal, • (D) spot sales and long-term delivery contracts, and (E) exports, f 3) overall profitability of coal operations, (4) capital requirements, sources and uses of funds, (5) vertical inte^ation of production, cleaning, processing, gasification, liquefaction, transportation, marketing, distribution, combustion, and other phases of the coal fuel cycle, (6) the effect of interfuel ownership, vertical integration, and market concentration upon innovation, eJEciency, prices and profits, (7) costs of production, transportation, processing, and other components of coal prices for different regions and different types of mines, (8) responsiveness of coal supply to market demand, (9) productive capacity, (10) productivity,

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