§17203 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must work with other U.S. and international agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, to support projects with other countries that promote research, development, and field testing of geothermal technologies for hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal systems. The Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency may encourage U.S. companies to join those projects and may give grants or other financial help for feasibility studies and resource assessments done in, or intended to help, less developed countries.

Title 42, §17203

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of Energy, in coordination with other appropriate Federal and multilateral agencies (including the United States Agency for International Development) shall support collaborative efforts with international partners to promote the research, development, and demonstration of geothermal technologies used to develop hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal system resources.

(b)The Director of the United States Trade and Development Agency may—

(1)encourage participation by United States firms in actions taken to carry out subsection (a); and

(2)provide grants and other financial support for feasibility and resource assessment studies conducted in, or intended to benefit, less developed countries.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2020—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–260, § 3002(k)(1), amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of Energy, in coordination with other appropriate Federal and multilateral agencies (including the United States Agency for International Development) shall support international collaborative efforts to promote the research, development, and deployment of geothermal technologies used to develop hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal system resources, including as partners (as appropriate) the African Rift Geothermal Development Facility, Australia, China, France, the Republic of Iceland, India, Japan, and the United Kingdom.” Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–260, § 3002(k)(2), struck out subsec. (c). Text read as follows: “There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.

§17203 International geothermal energy development