Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, PL 95-620: legislative history, 1978

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:5808686

The text of Public Law 95-620, November 9, 1978 is presented. Briefly, the purposes of the Act are to reduce the importation of petroleum, to conserve natural gas and petroleum, to encourage and foster the greater use of coal and other alternate fuels, to encourage the use of synthetic gas derived from coal, to encourage the rehabilitation and upgrading of railroad service necessary to transport coal, to prohibit or minimize the use of natural gas and petroleum, to encourage modernization or replacement of existing and new electric power plants and major fuel-burning installations, to require that existing and new electric power plants or major fuel-burning installations which utilize fossil fuel comply with applicable environmental requirements, to insure that all Federal agencies utilize their authorities fully in furtherance of the purposes of this Act, to insure that adequate supplies of natural gas are available for essential agricultural uses, to reduce the vulnerability of the US to energy-supply interruptions, and to regulate interstate commerce. A report on the Committee of Conference submitted a report to accompany H.R. 5146 on some amendments recommended. A transcript of the conference meeting beginning on November 1, 1977 to November 9, 1977 is presented in Volume I.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5808686
• Report Number(s): DOE/GC-0002/1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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