22 U.S.C. § 7905 — Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technology Export Initiative
submitted 21 years ago by Pub. L. 101-240 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 301 words · no verdicts yet
This section creates an interagency initiative to promote exports of technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intensity. It specifies the working group, its tasks, and recurring performance reports.
(a) An interagency working group is established to carry out the Greenhouse Gas Intensity* Reducing Technology Export Initiative by (1) promoting United States exports of such technologies and practices; (2) identifying priority developing countries using the section 7902 report; (3) identifying adoption barriers using section 7904 reports; and (4) reviewing prior energy-technology export efforts for best practices.
(b) The group consists of (1) the Secretary of State, its head; (2) the USAID Administrator; (3) the United States Trade Representative; (4) an Energy Secretary designee; (5) a Commerce Secretary designee; and (6) an Environmental Protection Agency Administrator designee.
(c) Within 180 days after August 8, 2005, and every year afterward, the group must (1) review Federal actions and results, including those of represented agencies, promoting these exports and (2) report to the appropriate congressional committees on the review results and progress, including recommendations to increase exports.
There is established an interagency working group to carry out a Greenhouse Gas Intensity* Reducing Technology Export Initiative to—
promote the export of greenhouse gas* intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States;
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;
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
identify previous efforts to export energy technologies to learn best practices.
The working group shall be composed of—
the Secretary of State, who shall act as the head of the working group;
the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development;
the United States Trade Representative;
a designee of the Secretary of Energy;
a designee of the Secretary of Commerce; and
a designee of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Not later than 180 days after August 8, 2005, and each year thereafter, the interagency working group shall—
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
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.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–240, title VII, § 735, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XVI, § 1611, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1115.)
- 2005Enacted · Pub. L. 101-240 · 119 Stat. 1115
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