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(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of enactment of this section, the 
Chairman of the White House Council on Environ-
mental Quality, the Secretary of Energy, the Sec-
retary of Commerce, and the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development 
shall jointly establish a Interagency Working Group 
on Clean Energy Technology Exports. The inter-
agency working group will, in partnership with in-
dustry, focus on opening and expanding energy mar-
kets and transferring clean energy technology gen-
erated in the United States to developing countries, 
countries in transition, and other partner countries 
that are expected to experience, over the next 20 
years, the most significant growth in energy produc-
tion and associated greenhouse gas emissions, in-
cluding through technology transfer programs under 
the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 
other international agreements, and relevant Federal 
efforts. 
(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The interagency working 
group shall be chaired by the Chairman of the White 
House Council on Environmental Quality and shall 
also include representatives from— 
(A) the Department of Commerce; 
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(B) the Department of the Treasury; 
(C) the Department of Energy; 
(D) the Environmental Protection Agency; 
(E) the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development; 
(F) the Export-Import Bank; 
(G) the Overseas Private Investment Cor-
poration; 
(H) the Trade and Development Agency; 
(I) the Small Business Administration; 
(J) the Office of United States Trade Rep-
resentative; and 
(K) other Federal agencies, as determined 
by the President. 
(3) DUTIES.—The interagency working group 
shall— 
(A) analyze technology, policy, and market 
opportunities for international development, 
demonstration, and deployment of clean energy 
technology developed in the United States; 
(B) investigate issues associated with 
building capacity to deploy clean energy tech-
nology generated in the United States in devel-
oping countries, countries in transition, and 
other partner countries, including— 
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(i) energy-sector reform; 
(ii) creation of open, transparent, and 
competitive markets for clean energy tech-
nologies; 
(iii) availability of trained personnel 
to deploy and maintain the technology; 
(iv) demonstration and cost-buydown 
mechanisms to promote first adoption of 
the technology; and 
(v) to promote sustainable economic 
development, increase access to modern en-
ergy services, reduce greenhouse gas emis-
sions, and strengthen energy security and 
independence in developing countries in 
partnership with industry through the de-
ployment of clean energy technologies; 
(C) examine relevant trade, tax, inter-
national, and other policy issues to assess what 
policies would help open markets and improve 
United States clean energy technology exports 
in support of the following areas— 
(i) enhancing energy innovation and 
cooperation, including energy sector and 
market reform, capacity building, and fi-
nancing measures; 
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(ii) improving energy end-use effi-
ciency technologies, including buildings and 
facilities, vehicle, industrial, and co-genera-
tion technology initiatives; 
(iii) promoting energy supply tech-
nologies, including fossil, nuclear, and re-
newable technology initiatives; 
(iv) reducing the trade deficit of the 
United States through the export of 
United States energy technologies and 
technological, project deployment, and de-
velopment expertise; and 
(v) retaining and creating manufac-
turing and related service jobs in the 
United States; 
(D) establish an advisory committee involv-
ing the private sector and other interested 
groups on the export and deployment of United 
States clean energy technology; 
(E) monitor each agency’s progress to-
wards meeting goals in the 5-year strategic plan 
submitted to Congress pursuant to the Energy 
and Water Development Appropriations Act, 
2001, and the Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 2002; 
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(F) make recommendations to heads of ap-
propriate Federal agencies on ways to stream-
line Federal programs and policies to improve 
each agency’s role in the international develop-
ment, demonstration, and deployment of United 
States clean energy technology; 
(G) make assessments and recommenda-
tions regarding the distinct technological, mar-
ket, regional, and stakeholder challenges nec-
essary to carry out the program; 
(H) recommend conditions and criteria 
that will help ensure that United States funds 
promote sound energy policies in participating 
countries while simultaneously opening their 
markets and exporting United States energy 
technology; 
(I) establish methodologies for the meas-
urement, monitoring, verification, and reporting 
under subsection (d) of the greenhouse gas 
emission impacts of clean energy projects and 
policies in developing countries; and 
(J) establish a registry that is accessible to 
the public through electronic means (including 
through the Internet) in which information re-
ported under subsection (d) shall be collected. 
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