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106 STAT. 2970 PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 any facility, the amount of such payment shall be 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour, adjusted as provided in paragraph (2). (2) ADJUSTMENTS.—The amount of the payment made to any person under this subsection as provided in paragraph (1) shall be adjusted for inflation for each fiscal year beginning after calendar year 1993 in the same manner as provided in the provisions of section 29(d)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, except that in applying such provisions the calendar year 1993 shall be substituted for calendar year 1979. (f) SUNSET.—No payment may be made under this section to any facility sifter the expiration of the 20-flscal year period beginning with the first full fiscal year occurring after the enactment of this section, and no pa3anent may be made under this section to any facility after a payment has been made with respect to such facility for a 10-flscal year period. (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. —T here are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. TITLE XIII—COAL Subtitle A—Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application 42 USC 13331. SEC. 1301. COAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATION PROGRAMS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall, in accordance with section 3001 and 3002 of this Act, conduct programs for research, development, demonstration, and commercial application on coalbased technologies. Such research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs shall include the programs established under this subtitle, and shall have the goals and objectives of— (1) ensuring a reliable electricity supply; (2) complying with applicable environmental requirements; (3) achieving the control of sulfur oxides, oxides of nitrogen, air toxics, solid and liquid wastes, greenhouse gases, or other emissions resulting from coal use or conversion at levels of proficiency greater than or equal to applicable currently available commercial technology; (4) achieving the cost competitive conversion of coal into energy forms usable in the transportation sector; (5) demonstrating the conversion of coal to synthetic gaseous, liquid, and solid niels; (6) demonstrating, in cooperation with other Federal and State agencies, the use of coal-derived fuels in mobile equipment, with opportunities for industrial cost sharing participation; (7) ensuring the timely commercial application of cost-effective technologies or energy production processes or systems utilizing coal which achieve— (A) greater efficiency in the conversion of coal to useful energy when compared to currently available commercial technology for the use of coal; and