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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§17331 United States Assistance for Developing Countries

Title 42 › CHAPTER 152 — ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER VIII — INTERNATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAMS › Part A — Assistance To Promote Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies in Foreign Countries › § 17331

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

USAID must help developing countries use cleaner, more energy-efficient technologies. It must build markets so private companies can provide energy and environmental services, strengthen laws, rules, institutions, and public participation to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and encourage use of U.S.-made clean energy products and services. USAID must send Congress a yearly report for each fiscal year 2008 through 2012. Congress authorized $200,000,000 for USAID for each of those fiscal years to do this work.

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Title 42, §17331

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

(a)Assistance authorized
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)Report
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)Authorization of appropriations
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.

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42 U.S.C. § 17331

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110