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type: "LegalText"
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title: "50 U.S.C. § 167o"
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description: "Low-Btu gas separation and helium conservation"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 50
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title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
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chapter_number: "10"
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chapter_name: "HELIUM GAS"
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section: "167o"
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citation: "50 U.S.C. § 167o"
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# 50 U.S.C. § 167o - Low-Btu gas separation and helium conservation
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## Text
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(a) Authorization The Secretary of Energy shall support programs of research, development, commercial application, and conservation (including the programs described in subsection (b))—
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(1) to expand the domestic production of low-Btu gas and helium resources;
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(2) to separate and capture helium from natural gas streams; and
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(3) to reduce the venting of helium and helium-bearing low-Btu gas during natural gas exploration and production.
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(b) Programs (1) Membrane technology research The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other appropriate agencies, shall support a civilian research program to develop advanced membrane technology that is used in the separation of low-Btu gases, including technologies that remove helium and other constituent gases that lower the Btu content of natural gas.
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(2) Helium separation technology The Secretary of Energy shall support a research program to develop technologies for separating, gathering, and processing helium in low concentrations that occur naturally in geological reservoirs or formations, including—
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(A) low-Btu gas production streams; and
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(B) technologies that minimize the atmospheric venting of helium gas during natural gas production.
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(3) Industrial helium program The Secretary of Energy, working through the Advanced Manufacturing Office of the Department of Energy, shall carry out a research program—
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(A) to develop low-cost technologies and technology systems for recycling, reprocessing, and reusing helium for all medical, scientific, industrial, commercial, aerospace, and other uses of helium in the United States, including Federal uses; and
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(B) to develop industrial gathering technologies to capture helium from other chemical processing, including ammonia processing.
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(c) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $3,000,000.
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(Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 426, § 17, as added Pub. L. 113–40, § 6(3), Oct. 2, 2013, 127 Stat. 542.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Prior ProvisionsA prior section 17 of act Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 426, was redesignated section 20 and is set out as a Separability note under section 167 of this title.
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