42 U.S.C. § 17336 — Deployment of international clean and efficient energy technologies and investment in global energy markets

(a) Task Force. (1) Establishment. Within 90 days of December 19, 2007, the President had to create a Task Force on International Cooperation for Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies. (2) Composition. The head of each listed federal body appoints a representative to the Task Force: the Council on Environmental Quality, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, USAID, the Export-Import Bank, the International Development Finance Corporation, the Trade and Development Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and any other agency the President names. (3) Chairperson. The President names one Chairperson or several Co-Chairpersons. (4) Duties. The Task Force must (A) help carry out the strategy required under subsection (c), and (B) study which technology, policy, and market opportunities help develop and spread clean energy technology worldwide, and examine trade, tax, finance, and other policies -- in the U.S. and developing countries -- that would open markets and boost U.S. clean energy exports. (5) Termination. The Task Force, and any working group it creates, ends 12 years after December 19, 2007. (b) Working groups. (1) Establishment. The Task Force must create an Interagency Working Group on the Export of Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies, and may create other working groups as needed. (2) Composition. The Interagency Working Group is co-chaired by the Secretaries of Energy, Commerce, and State, plus other members the Task Force's Chairperson picks. (3) Duties. The Interagency Working Group must coordinate the resources and programs of the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and State, and other agencies, to support exporting U.S.-developed clean energy technology and deploying it abroad. (4) Interagency Center. The Interagency Working Group must set up an Interagency Center on the Export of Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies to help it do this work, located wherever its Co-Chairpersons agree, with the Task Force Chairperson's approval. (c) Strategy. (1) In general. Within 1 year of December 19, 2007, the Task Force must give the President and Congress's relevant committees a strategy to (A) support programs in developing countries -- especially those expected to grow energy use fastest over 20 years -- to adopt clean energy technology; (B) open and grow clean energy markets abroad and help export U.S. technology, consistent with World Trade Organization rules; (C) fold into U.S. foreign policy both deploying clean energy technology abroad and exporting U.S. technology; and (D) develop cost-effective financial tools -- including securities that reduce political and currency risk -- that combine private markets with government support to attract private investment in developing-country clean energy projects. (2) Updates. The Task Force must update this strategy every 3 years, starting 3 years after it first submits it. (d) Report. (1) In general. Starting 3 years after the strategy is submitted, and every 3 years after that, the President must send Congress's relevant committees a report on how this section worked over the past 3 years. (2) Matters to be included. The report must cover: (A) the strategy update and what the Task Force did to help carry it out; (B) what the Task Force did on its subsection (a)(4)(B) duties; (C) assistance given under this section; (D) results of programs and projects; (E) priorities for spreading clean energy technology in developing countries, weighing U.S. economic and security interests and export opportunities; (F) recommendations to streamline federal programs on clean energy technology; (G) strategies to involve the private sector and other groups in exporting and deploying the technology; and (H) programs to share clean energy information with the private sector and public. (e) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $5,000,000 per year to carry out this section, for fiscal years 2008 through 2020.