§17336 Deployment of International Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies and Investment in Global Energy Markets

Summary

Creates a Task Force on International Cooperation for Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies and requires it to be set up within 90 days after December 19, 2007. The President picks the chair or co-chairs. The Task Force is made up of representatives from many federal agencies, including the Council on Environmental Quality, Energy, Commerce, Treasury, State, EPA, USAID, Export-Import Bank, International Development Finance Corporation, Trade and Development Agency, Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and any other agencies the President names. The Task Force must make and help carry out a strategy, study technology, market, and policy opportunities to develop and export clean and efficient energy technologies, and look at trade, tax, finance, and other rules that affect those exports. It must create an Interagency Working Group, led by the Secretaries of Energy, Commerce, and State, to coordinate programs and set up an Interagency Center to help with that work. The Task Force and its working groups end 12 years after December 19, 2007. The Task Force must finish and send a strategy within 1 year after December 19, 2007, update it every 3 years, and the President must send a report to Congress every 3 years starting 3 years after the strategy. Reports must cover updates, actions taken, results, priorities, recommendations to improve federal programs, private-sector involvement, and public information efforts. Up to $5,000,000 is authorized for each fiscal year from 2008 through 2020 to carry out this work.