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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 86 — Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries

§ 7905. Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative

Statutory text

(a)

In general

There is established an interagency working group to carry out a Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative to—

(1)

promote the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States;

(2)

identify developing countries that should be designated as priority countries for the purpose of exporting greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices, based on the report submitted under section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title;

(3)

identify potential barriers to adoption of exported greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices based on the reports submitted under section 7904 of this title; and

(4)

identify previous efforts to export energy technologies to learn best practices.

(b)

Composition

The working group shall be composed of—

(1)

the Secretary of State, who shall act as the head of the working group;

(2)

the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development;

(3)

the United States Trade Representative;

(4)

a designee of the Secretary of Energy;

(5)

a designee of the Secretary of Commerce; and

(6)

a designee of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

(c)

Performance reviews and reports

Not later than 180 days after , and each year thereafter, the interagency working group shall—

(1)

conduct a performance review of actions taken and results achieved by the Federal Government (including each of the agencies represented on the interagency working group) to promote the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States; and

(2)

submit to the appropriate authorizing and appropriating committees of Congress a report that describes the results of the performance reviews and evaluates progress in promoting the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States, including any recommendations for increasing the export of the technologies and practices.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. International Development and Finance Act of 1989

    Pub. L. 101–240 title VII § 735 · 103 Stat. 2492

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 7905

    (Pub. L. 101–240, title VII, § 735, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XVI, § 1611, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1115.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 101–240, title VII, § 735, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XVI, § 1611, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1115.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , except as otherwise provided, see section 739 of Pub. L. 101–240, set out as a note under section 7901 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 101–240, title VII, § 735, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XVI, § 1611, , 119 Stat. 1115.)

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