Union Calendar No. 269
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3813
[Report No. 103–478]
A BILL
To amend the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to
promote further United States exports of envi-
ronmental technologies, goods, and services.
APRIL 18, 1994
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 269
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3813
[Report No. 103–478]
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
APRIL 18, 1994
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 8, 1994]
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) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(5) PRIMARY ROLE OF THE SECRETARY.—The
Secretary, in carrying out the duties of the chair-
person of the TPCC, shall coordinate all activities of
the Federal Government relating to the promotion of
exports of United States environmental technologies,
goods, and services.’’;
(3) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection
(e); and
(4) by inserting after subsection (b) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(c) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES TRADE ADVI-
SORY COMMITTEE.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.—The Sec-
retary, in carrying out the duties of the chairperson
of the TPCC, 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 guid-
ance to the Working Group in the development 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;
‘‘(D) 
States 
(as 
defined 
in 
section
2301(i)(5)) and associations representing the
States; and
‘‘(E) other appropriate interested members
of the public.
The Secretary shall appoint as members of the Committee
at least 1 individual under each of subparagraphs (A)
through (E).
‘‘(d) EXPORT PLANS FOR PRIORITY COUNTRIES.—
‘‘(1) PRIORITY COUNTRY IDENTIFICATION.—The
Working Group, in consultation with the Committee,
shall annually assess which foreign countries have
markets with the greatest potential for the export of
United States environmental technologies, goods, and
services. Of these countries the Working Group shall
select as priority countries 5 with the greatest poten-
tial for the application of United States Government
export promotion resources related 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 increase
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 wheth-
er such projects are dependent upon financial as-
sistance 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 ENVIRON-
MENTAL EXPORTS.—Section 2313 of the Export Enhance-
ment Act of 1988 is further amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(f) ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES SPECIALISTS IN
THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERV-
ICE.—
‘‘(1) ASSIGNMENT
OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
TECH-
NOLOGIES SPECIALISTS.—The Secretary shall assign
a specialist in environmental technologies to the office
of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service
in each of the 5 priority countries selected under sub-
section (d)(1), and the Secretary is authorized to as-
sign such a specialist to the office of the United States
and Foreign Commercial 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
department or agency assigned on a temporary or
limited term basis to the Commerce Department, or
a representative of the private sector assigned to the
Department of Commerce.
‘‘(2) DUTIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES
SPECIALISTS.—Each specialist assigned under para-
graph (1) shall provide export promotion assistance
to United States environmental businesses, 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 produc-
ers of environmental technologies, goods, and
services in such countries in order to enhance ex-
ports to the country to which the specialist is as-
signed, the effectiveness of such assistance 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 environmental
market;
‘‘(D) providing assistance in identifying po-
tential 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 country
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 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 dis-
trict offices in districts having large numbers of envi-
ronmental 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 Govern-
ment departments and agencies, with appropriate expertise
in environmental technologies and the international envi-
ronmental workplace, and by appropriate representatives of
the private sector.
‘‘(h) INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INI-
TIATIVES.—
‘‘(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 depart-
ments and agencies with the activities of State and
local governmental 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 pro-
tection and promote sustainable development by using
technical 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 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, through the provision of
foreign assistance;
‘‘(B) identify and disseminate to United
States environmental businesses information re-
garding specific environmental business opportu-
nities in that geographic region;
‘‘(C) coordinate existing Federal efforts to
promote environmental exports to that geo-
graphic region, and ensure that such efforts are
als interested in acquiring such 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.’’.