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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1175 
To provide for the establishment of a Clean Energy Technology Manufac-
turing and Export Assistance Fund to assist United States businesses 
with exporting clean energy technology products and services. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2015 
Ms. MATSUI (for herself, Ms. ESTY, Mr. HONDA, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. CON-
YERS, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. TONKO, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. 
RUSH, Ms. LEE, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, and Mr. HUFFMAN) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the establishment of a Clean Energy Tech-
nology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Fund to 
assist United States businesses with exporting clean en-
ergy technology products and services. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Energy Tech-
nology Manufacturing and Export Assistance Act of 
2015’’. 
SEC. 2. CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING 
AND EXPORT ASSISTANCE FUND. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘clean energy technology’’ means 
a technology related to the production, use, trans-
mission, storage, control, or conservation of energy 
that will contribute to a stabilization of atmospheric 
greenhouse gas concentrations through reduction, 
avoidance, or sequestration of energy-related emis-
sions and— 
(A) reduce the need for additional energy 
supplies by using existing energy supplies with 
greater efficiency or by transmitting, distrib-
uting, or transporting energy with greater effec-
tiveness through the infrastructure of the 
United States; or 
(B) diversify the sources of energy supply 
of the United States to strengthen energy secu-
rity and to increase supplies with a favorable 
balance of environmental effects if the entire 
technology system is considered; and 
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(2) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Commerce. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish 
a Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing and Export 
Assistance Fund, to be administered through the Inter-
national Trade Administration. The Secretary shall ad-
minister the Fund to promote policies that will reduce pro-
duction costs and encourage innovation, investment, and 
productivity in the clean energy technology sector, and im-
plement a national clean energy technology export strat-
egy. The purpose of the Fund is to ensure that United 
States clean energy technology firms, including clean en-
ergy technology parts suppliers and engineering and de-
sign firms, have the information and assistance they need 
to be competitive and create clean energy technology sec-
tor jobs in the United States. 
(c) ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary, consistent with the 
National Export Initiative, shall provide information, 
tools, and other assistance to United States businesses to 
promote clean energy technology manufacturing and facili-
tate the export of clean energy technology products and 
services. Such assistance shall include— 
(1) developing critical analysis of policies to re-
duce production costs and promote innovation, in-
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vestment, and productivity in the clean energy tech-
nology sector; 
(2) helping educate companies about how to tai-
lor their activities to specific markets with respect to 
their product slate, financing, marketing, assembly, 
and logistics; 
(3) helping United States companies learn 
about the export process and export opportunities in 
foreign markets; 
(4) helping United States companies to navi-
gate foreign markets; and 
(5) helping United States companies provide 
input regarding clean energy technology manufac-
turing and trade policy developments and trade pro-
motion. 
(d) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit 
to the Congress a report indicating how the funds 
provided under this section will be used to— 
(A) focus on small- and medium-sized 
United States businesses; 
(B) encourage the creation and mainte-
nance of the greatest number of clean energy 
technology jobs in the United States; and 
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(C) encourage the domestic production of 
clean energy technology products and services, 
including materials, components, equipment, 
parts, and supplies related in any way to the 
product or service. 
(2) Not later than January 1, 2019, the Sec-
retary shall transmit to the Congress a report as-
sessing the extent to which the program established 
under this section— 
(A) has been successful in developing crit-
ical analysis of policies to reduce production 
costs and promote innovation, investment, and 
productivity in the clean energy technology sec-
tor; 
(B) has been successful in increasing the 
competitiveness of United States clean energy 
technology firms in emerging markets; 
(C) has been successful in assisting United 
States businesses, specifically small- and me-
dium-sized firms, with exporting clean energy 
technology products and services; 
(D) has been successful in creating jobs di-
rectly related to the clean energy technology 
sector in the United States, including specific 
information as to the nature, location, and du-
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ration of those jobs and the methodology used 
by the Secretary to compile such information; 
(E) has been successful in helping United 
States companies provide input regarding clean 
energy technology manufacturing and trade pol-
icy developments and trade promotion; and 
(F) should be continued. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary for carrying out this 
section $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2015 through 2019. 
(2) LIMITATION.—No assistance provided using 
funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be 
provided in the form of a monetary grant. 
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