---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17331"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17331"
heading: "United States assistance for developing countries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17331"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter VIII — International Energy Programs"
  - "Part A — Assistance To Promote Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies in Foreign Countries"
---

# §17331. United States assistance for developing countries

- (a) **Assistance authorized—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the United States [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for International Development shall support policies and [programs](/usc/42/17151.md?p=5) in developing countries that promote [clean and efficient energy technologies](/usc/42/17321.md?p=2)—
  - (1) to produce the necessary market conditions for the private sector delivery of energy and environmental management services;
  - (2) to create an environment that is conducive to accepting [clean and efficient energy technologies](/usc/42/17321.md?p=2) that support the overall purpose of reducing [greenhouse gas](/usc/42/17321.md?p=3) emissions, including—
    - (A) improving policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks;
    - (B) increasing institutional abilities to provide energy and environmental management services; and
    - (C) increasing public awareness and participation in the decision-making of delivering energy and environmental management services; and
  - (3) to promote the use of American-made [clean and efficient energy technologies](/usc/42/17321.md?p=2), products, and energy and environmental management services.
- (b) **Report—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the United States [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for International Development shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/42/17321.md?p=1) an annual report on the implementation of this section for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the United States [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for International Development $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title IX, § 911, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1725.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.