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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3813
To amend the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to promote further United
States exports of environmental technologies, goods, and services.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 8, 1994
Mr. GEJDENSON (for himself, Mr. STUDDS, Ms. FURSE, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr.
ROTH, and Mrs. MEYERS of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To amend the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to promote
further United States exports of environmental tech-
nologies, goods, and services.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmental Export
Promotion Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. PROMOTION OF UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL
EXPORTS.
(a) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES TRADE ADVI-
SORY COMMITTEE.—Section 2313 of the Export Enhance-
ment Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4728) is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (d);
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (e); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(c) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES TRADE ADVI-
SORY COMMITTEE.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
AND
PURPOSE.—The
President shall establish the Environmental Tech-
nologies Trade Advisory Committee (hereafter in
this section referred to as the ‘Committee’). The
purpose of the Committee shall be to provide advice
and guidance to the Working Group in the develop-
ment and administration of programs to expand
United States exports of environmental technologies,
goods, and services.
‘‘(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The members of the Com-
mittee shall be drawn from representatives of—
‘‘(A) environmental businesses, including
small businesses;
‘‘(B) trade associations in the environ-
mental sector;
‘‘(C) private sector organizations involved
in the promotion of environmental exports; and
‘‘(D) other appropriate interested members
of the public.
‘‘(d) EXPORT PLANS FOR PRIORITY COUNTRIES.—
‘‘(1) PRIORITY
COUNTRY
IDENTIFICATION.—
The Working Group, in consultation with the Com-
mittee, shall annually assess which foreign countries
have markets with the greatest potential for the ex-
port of United States environmental technologies,
goods, and services. Of these countries the Working
Group shall select as priority countries 5 with the
greatest potential for the application of United
States Government export promotion resources relat-
ed to environmental exports.
‘‘(2) EXPORT PLANS.—The Working Group, in
consultation with the Committee, shall annually cre-
ate a plan for each priority country selected under
paragraph (1), setting forth in detail ways to in-
crease United States environmental exports to such
country. Each such plan shall—
‘‘(A) identify the primary public and pri-
vate sector opportunities for United States ex-
porters of environmental technologies, goods,
and services in the priority country;
‘‘(B) analyze the financing and other re-
quirements for major projects in the priority
country which will use environmental tech-
nologies, goods, and services, and analyze
whether such projects are dependent upon fi-
nancial assistance from foreign countries or
multilateral institutions; and
‘‘(C) list specific actions to be taken by the
member agencies of the Working Group to in-
crease United States exports to the priority
country.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL MECHANISMS TO PROMOTE ENVI-
RONMENTAL EXPORTS.—Section 2313 of the Export En-
hancement Act of 1988 is further amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘(f) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES SPECIALISTS
IN
THE UNITED STATES
AND FOREIGN COMMERCIAL
SERVICE.—
‘‘(1) ASSIGNMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECH-
NOLOGIES
SPECIALISTS.—The Secretary of Com-
merce shall assign a specialist in environmental tech-
nologies to the office of the United States and For-
eign Commercial Service in each of the 5 priority
countries selected under subsection (d)(1), and the
Secretary is authorized to assign such a specialist to
the office of the United States and Foreign Com-
mercial Service in any country that is a promising
market for United States exports of environmental
technologies, goods, and services. Such specialist
may be an employee of the Department, an employee
of any relevant United States Government depart-
ment or agency assigned on a temporary or limited
term basis to the Commerce Department, or a rep-
resentative of the private sector assigned to the De-
partment of Commerce.
‘‘(2) 
DUTIES
OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
TECH-
NOLOGIES
SPECIALISTS.—Each specialist assigned
under paragraph (1) shall provide export promotion
assistance to United States environmental busi-
nesses, including, but not limited to—
‘‘(A) identifying factors in the country to
which the specialist is assigned that affect the
United States share of the domestic market for
environmental technologies, goods, and services,
including market barriers, standards-setting ac-
tivities, and financing issues;
‘‘(B) providing assessments of assistance
by foreign governments that is provided to pro-
ducers of environmental technologies, goods,
and services in such countries in order to en-
hance exports to the country to which the spe-
cialist is assigned, the effectiveness of such as-
sistance on the competitiveness of United
States products, and whether comparable Unit-
ed States assistance exists;
‘‘(C) training Foreign Commercial Service
Officers in the country to which the specialist
is assigned, other countries in the region, and
United States and Foreign Commercial Service
offices in the United States, in environmental
technologies and the international environ-
mental market;
‘‘(D) providing assistance in identifying
potential customers and market opportunities in
the country to which the specialist is assigned;
‘‘(E) providing assistance in obtaining nec-
essary business services in the country to which
the specialist is assigned;
‘‘(F) providing information on environ-
mental standards and regulations in the coun-
try to which the specialist is assigned; and
‘‘(G) providing information on all United
States Government programs that could assist
the promotion, financing, and sale of United
States environmental technologies, goods, and
services in the country to which the specialist is
assigned.
‘‘(g) ENVIRONMENTAL
TRAINING
IN
ONE-STOP
SHOPS.—In addition to the training provided under sub-
section (f)(2)(C), the Secretary of Commerce shall estab-
lish a mechanism to train—
‘‘(1) Commercial Service Officers assigned to
the 
one-stop 
shops 
provided 
for 
in 
section
2301(b)(8), and
‘‘(2) Commercial Service Officers assigned to
district offices in districts having large numbers of
environmental businesses,
in environmental technologies and in the international en-
vironmental marketplace, and ensure that such officers re-
ceive appropriate training under such mechanism. Such
training may be provided by officers or employees of the
Department of Commerce, and other United States Gov-
ernment departments and agencies, with appropriate ex-
pertise in environmental technologies and the international
environmental workplace, and by appropriate representa-
tives of the private sector.
‘‘(h) INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
INITIATIVES.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
INITIATIVES.—The
TPCC shall establish international regional environ-
mental initiatives the purpose of which shall be to
coordinate the activities of Federal departments and
agencies with the activities of State and local gov-
ernmental institutions and the private sector to build
environmental partnerships between the United
States and the geographic region outside the United
States for which such initiative is established. Such
partnerships shall enhance environmental protection
and promote sustainable development by using tech-
nical expertise and financial resources of the United
States in the region and by expanding United States
exports of environmental technologies, goods, and
services to that region.
‘‘(2) ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out each inter-
national regional environmental initiative, the TPCC
shall—
‘‘(A) support the development of sound en-
vironmental policies and practices in countries
in the geographic region for which the initiative
is established, including the development of en-
vironmentally sound regulatory regimes and en-
forcement mechanisms, through the provision of
foreign assistance;
‘‘(B) identify and disseminate to United
States environmental businesses information re-
garding specific environmental business oppor-
tunities in that geographic region;
‘‘(C) coordinate existing Federal efforts to
promote environmental exports to that geo-
graphic region, and ensure that such efforts are
fully coordinated with environmental export
promotion efforts undertaken by the States and
the private sector;
‘‘(D) increase assistance provided by the
Federal Government to promote exports from
the United States of environmental tech-
nologies, goods, and services to that geographic
region, such as trade missions, reverse trade
missions, trade fairs, and programs in the Unit-
ed States to train foreign nationals in United
States environmental technologies; and
‘‘(E) increase high-level advocacy by Unit-
ed States Government officials for United
States environmental businesses seeking market
opportunities in that geographic region.
‘‘(i) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT AD-
VOCACY CALENDAR.—The Working Group shall maintain
a calendar, updated at the end of each calendar quarter,
of significant opportunities for United States environ-
mental businesses in foreign markets and trade promotion
events, which shall be made available to the public. Such
calendar shall—
‘‘(1) identify the 50 to 100 environmental infra-
structure and procurement projects in foreign mar-
kets that have the greatest potential in the calendar
quarter for United States exports of environmental
technologies, goods, and services; and
‘‘(2) include trade promotion events, such as
trade missions and trade fairs, in the environmental
sector.
‘‘(j) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘environmental business’ means a business that pro-
duces environmental technologies, goods, or services.’’.
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