text: 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 Advisory Committee.--Section 
  2313 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4728) is 
  amended--
              (1) by striking subsection (d);
              (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e); and
              (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
          subsections:
      ``(c) Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee.--
              ``(1) Establishment and purpose.--The Secretary, in 
          carrying out the duties of the chairperson of the TPCC, shall 
          establish the Environmental Technologies 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 development and 
          administration of programs to expand United States exports of 
          environmental technologies, goods, and services.
              ``(2) Membership.--
                      ``(A) In general.--The members of the Committee 
                  shall be drawn from representatives of--
                              ``(i) environmental businesses, including 
                          small businesses;
                              ``(ii) trade associations in the 
                          environmental sector;
                              ``(iii) private sector organizations 
                          involved in the promotion of environmental 
                          exports;
                              ``(iv) the States (as defined in section 
                          2301(j)(5)) and associations representing the 
                          States; and
                              ``(v) other appropriate interested members 
                          of the public.
                      ``(B) Committee composition.--The Secretary shall 
                  appoint as members of the Committee no fewer than 1 
                  individual under each of clauses (i) through (v) of 
                  subparagraph (A).
      ``(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 the 5 countries with the greatest potential for the 
          application of United States Government export promotion 
          resources related to environmental exports as `priority 
          countries'.
              ``(2) Export plans.--The Working Group, in consultation 
          with the Committee, shall annually create 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 plan shall--
                      ``(A) identify the primary public and private 
                  sector opportunities for United States exporters of 
                  environmental technologies, goods, and services in the 
                  priority country;
                      ``(B) analyze the financing and other requirements 
                  for major projects in the priority country which will 
                  use environmental technologies, goods, and services, 
                  and analyze whether such projects are dependent upon 
                  financial assistance from foreign countries or 
                  multilateral institutions; and
                      ``(C) list specific actions to be taken by the 
                  member agencies of the Working Group to increase United 
                  States exports to the priority country.''.
      (b) Additional Mechanisms To Promote Environmental Exports.--
  Section 2313 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4728) is 
  amended by adding at the end the following:
      ``(f) Environmental Technologies Specialists in the United States 
  and Foreign Commercial Service.--
              ``(1) Assignment of environmental technologies 
          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 subsection (d)(1), and the Secretary 
          is authorized to assign 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 of Commerce, an 
          employee of any relevant Government department or agency 
          assigned on a temporary or limited term basis to the Department 
          of Commerce, or a representative of the private sector assigned 
          to the Department of Commerce.
              ``(2) Duties of environmental technologies specialists.--
          Each specialist assigned under paragraph (1) shall provide 
          export promotion assistance to United States environmental 
          businesses, including--
                      ``(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 activities, and financing 
                  issues;
                      ``(B) providing assessments of assistance by 
                  foreign governments to producers of environmental 
                  technologies, goods, and services in such countries in 
                  order to enhance exports to the country to which the 
                  specialist is assigned, 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 potential 
                  customers and market opportunities in the country to 
                  which the specialist is assigned;
                      ``(E) providing assistance in obtaining necessary 
                  business services in the country to which the 
                  specialist is assigned;
                      ``(F) providing information on environmental 
                  standards and regulations in the country to which the 
                  specialist is assigned; and
                      ``(G) providing information on all United States 
                  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 subsection (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 district 
          offices in districts having large numbers of environmental 
          businesses;
  in environmental technologies and in the international environmental 
  marketplace, and ensure that such officers receive appropriate training 
  under such mechanism. Such training may be provided by officers or 
  employees of the Department of Commerce, and other United States 
  departments and agencies, with appropriate expertise in environmental 
  technologies and the international environmental workplace, and by 
  appropriate representatives of the private sector.
      ``(h) International Regional Environmental Initiatives.--
              ``(1) Establishment of initiatives.--The TPCC shall 
          establish not less than one international regional 
          environmental initiative, the purpose of which shall be to 
          coordinate the activities of Federal departments and agencies 
          in order to build environmental partnerships between the United 
          States and the geographic region outside of the United States 
          for which such initiative is established. Such partnerships 
          shall enhance environmental protection and promote sustainable 
          development by using technical expertise and financial 
          resources of the United States departments and agencies that 
          provide foreign assistance, and by expanding United States 
          exports of environmental technologies, goods, and services to 
          that region.
              ``(2) Activities.--In carrying out each international 
          regional environmental initiative, the TPCC shall--
                      ``(A) support the development of sound 
                  environmental policies and practices in countries in 
                  the geographic region for which the initiative is 
                  established, including the development of 
                  environmentally sound regulatory regimes and 
                  enforcement mechanisms, through the provision of 
                  foreign assistance;
                      ``(B) identify and disseminate to United States 
                  environmental businesses information regarding specific 
                  environmental business opportunities in that geographic 
                  region;
                      ``(C) coordinate existing Federal efforts to 
                  promote environmental exports to that geographic 
                  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 United 
                  States to promote exports from the United States of 
                  environmental technologies, 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 Government 
                  officials (including the United States ambassadors to 
                  the countries in the geographic region outside of the 
                  United States) for United States environmental 
                  businesses seeking market opportunities in that 
                  geographic region.
      ``(i) Environmental Technologies Project Advocacy Calendar and 
  Information Dissemination Program.--The Working Group shall--
              ``(1) maintain a calendar, 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--
                      ``(A) be made available to the public;
                      ``(B) identify not less than 50 nor more than 100 
                  environmental infrastructure and procurement projects 
                  in foreign markets that have the greatest potential in 
                  the calendar quarter for United States exports of 
                  environmental technologies, goods, and services; and
                      ``(C) include trade promotion events, such as trade 
                  missions and trade fairs, in the environmental sector; 
                  and
              ``(2) provide, through the National Trade Data Bank and 
          other information dissemination channels, information on 
          opportunities for environmental businesses in foreign markets 
          and information on Federal export promotion programs.
      ``(j) Regional Centers.--The Secretary, through the Assistant 
  Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and 
  Foreign Commercial Service, is authorized to provide matching funds for 
  the establishment in the United States of regional environmental 
  business and technology cooperation centers that will draw upon the 
  expertise of the private sector and institutions of higher education 
  and existing Federal programs to provide 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 produces environmental 
  technologies, goods, or services.''.
target: Environmental Export Promotion Act of 1994 - Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee to advise and guide the Environmental Trade Promotion Working Group in the development and administration of programs to expand U.S. exports of environmental technologies, goods, and services. 
  Requires the Working Group to assess annually which foreign countries have markets with the greatest potential for such exports, and select five of them as priority countries for the application of U.S. Government export promotion resources.  Requires the Working Group to create annual plans for each priority country, detailing ways to increase U.S. environmental exports to such country. 
  Directs the Secretary to assign a specialist in environmental technologies to the office of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in each of the five priority countries, and authorize similar assignments in any countries that are promising markets for such exports.  Specifies the duties of such specialists. 
  Requires the Secretary to establish:  (1) a mechanism to give environmental technology and international environmental marketplace training to Commercial Service Officers assigned to one-stop shops and to district offices in districts with large numbers of environmental businesses; and (2) ensure that such officers receive appropriate training under such mechanism. 
  Directs the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) to establish not less than one international regional environmental initiative to coordinate Federal activities to build environmental partnerships between the United States and the geographic region outside the United States for which such an initiative is established. Specifies TPCC activities in carrying out such initiative. 
  Directs the Working Group to maintain an environmental technologies project advocacy calendar, updated quarterly, identifying and providing information on significant project opportunities for U.S. environmental businesses in foreign markets and trade promotion events. 
  Authorizes the Secretary to provide matching funds for the establishment in the United States of regional environmental business and technology cooperation centers that will draw upon the expertise of the private sector, institutions of higher education, and existing Federal programs to provide export promotion assistance related to environmental technologies, goods, and services.
feat_title: Environmental Export Promotion Act of 1994