§17331 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The USAID Administrator must help developing countries adopt clean, efficient energy technologies. The work should create market conditions for private companies to provide energy and environmental services, make it easier for countries to accept technologies that cut greenhouse gas emissions by improving laws and regulations, building local institutions, and boosting public awareness and participation, and promote American-made clean energy products and services. USAID must send an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees for each fiscal year 2008 through 2012. Up to $200,000,000 may be provided to USAID for each of those fiscal years to carry out this work.

Title 42, §17331

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(a)The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall support policies and programs in developing countries that promote clean and efficient energy technologies—

(1)to produce the necessary market conditions for the private sector delivery of energy and environmental management services;

(2)to create an environment that is conducive to accepting clean and efficient energy technologies that support the overall purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including—

(A)improving policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks;

(B)increasing institutional abilities to provide energy and environmental management services; and

(C)increasing public awareness and participation in the decision-making of delivering energy and environmental management services; and

(3)to promote the use of American-made clean and efficient energy technologies, products, and energy and environmental management services.

(b)The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an annual report on the implementation of this section for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

(c)To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

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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.

§17331 United States Assistance for Developing Countries

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Title 42, §17331

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