‘‘(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
United 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 shall establish a mecha-
nism 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 one or more international re-
gional environmental initiatives the purpose of which
shall be to coordinate the activities of Federal de-
partments and agencies in order to build environ-
mental partnerships between the United States and
the geographic region outside the United States for
which such initiative is established. Such partner-
ships shall enhance environmental protection and
promote sustainable development by using in the re-
gion technical expertise and financial resources of
United States departments and agencies that pro-
vide foreign assistance 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, through the provision of for-
eign assistance, the development of sound envi-
ronmental policies and practices in countries in
the geographic region for which the initiative is
established, including the development of envi-
ronmentally sound regulatory regimes and en-
forcement mechanisms;
‘‘(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
United States to train foreign nationals in
United States environmental technologies; and
‘‘(E) 
increase 
high-level 
advocacy 
by
United States Government officials (including
the United States ambassadors to the countries
in that geographic region) for United States en-
vironmental businesses seeking market opportu-
nities in that geographic region.
‘‘(i) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT AD-
VOCACY CALENDAR AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
PROGRAM.—The Working Group shall maintain a cal-
endar, updated at the end of each calendar quarter, of
significant opportunities for United States environmental
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.
The Working Group shall also provide, through the Na-
tional Trade Data Bank and other information dissemina-
tion channels, information on opportunities for environ-
mental businesses in foreign markets and information on
Federal export promotion programs.
‘‘(j) REGIONAL CENTERS.—The Secretary, through
the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director Gen-
eral of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service,
is authorized to provide matching funds for the establish-
ment in the United States of regional environmental busi-
ness and technology cooperation centers that will draw
upon the expertise of the private sector and institutions
of higher education and existing Federal programs to pro-
vide export promotion assistance related to environmental
technologies, goods, and services.
‘‘(k) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘environmental business’ means a business that pro-
duces environmental technologies, goods, or services.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives April 19, 1994.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.