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title: "42 U.S.C. § 15976"
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title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 15976 - Electron scrubbing demonstration

## Text

The Secretary shall use $5,000,000 from amounts appropriated to initiate, through the Chicago Operations Office, a project to demonstrate the viability of high-energy electron scrubbing technology on commercial-scale electrical generation using high-sulfur coal.

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IV, § 416, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 756.)