§ 262j. — Use of renewable resources for energy production.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC262j]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
Sec. 262j. Use of renewable resources for energy production
(a) Promotion, etc., by United States in connection with international
financial institutions
The United States Government, in connection with its voice and vote
in the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Fund,
and the Asian Development Bank, shall encourage such institutions--
(1) to promote the decentralized production of renewable energy;
(2) to identify renewable resources to produce energy in rural
development projects and determine the feasibility of substituting
them for systems using fossil fuel;
(3) to train personnel in developing technologies for getting
energy from renewable resources;
(4) to support research into the use of renewable resources,
including hydropower, biomass, solar photovoltaic, and solar
thermal;
(5) to support an information network to make available to
policymakers the full range of energy choices;
(6) to broaden their energy planning, analyses, and assessments
to include consideration of the supply of, demand for, and possible
uses of renewable resources; and
(7) to coordinate with the Agency for International Development
and other aid organizations in supporting effective rural energy
programs.
(b) ``Renewable resource'' defined
For purposes of this section, the term ``renewable resource'' means
any energy resource which--
(1) meets the needs of rural communities;
(2) saves capital without wasting labor;
(3) is modest in scale and simple to install and maintain and
which can be managed by local individuals;
(4) is acceptable and affordable; and
(5) does not damage the environment.
(Pub. L. 96-259, title VI, Sec. 602, June 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 433; Pub. L.
97-375, title I, Sec. 112, Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1821.)
Amendments
1982--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97-375 struck out subsec. (c) which
directed the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Director of the United States International Development Cooperation
Agency, to report to Congress not later than six months after June 3,
1980, and annually thereafter on the progress toward achieving the goals
set forth in this title.
Congressional Statement of Findings Respecting Use of Renewable
Resources for Energy Production in Poor and Developing Countries and
Role of International Financial Institutions
Section 601 of Pub. L. 96-259 provided that: ``The Congress finds
that--
``(1) without an adequate supply of energy at affordable prices
the world's poor will continue to be deprived of jobs, food, water,
shelter, and clothing, and poor countries will continue to be
economically and politically unstable;
``(2) dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuel resources
consumes too much of the capital available to poor countries with
the result that funds are not available to meet the basic needs of
poor people;
``(3) in many developing countries the cost of large central
generators and long distance electrical distribution makes it
unlikely that rural energy by means of a national grid will
contribute to meeting the needs of poor people;
``(4) only one of eight rural inhabitants lives in an area which
has access to electricity and even fewer rural inhabitants actually
have or can afford electricity;
``(5) wood, animal and agricultural waste, and other
`noncommercial' fuels still supply about half the total energy in
developing countries and all but a seventh in rural sectors;
``(6) growing dependence of the world's poor on wood for heating
and cooking has forced the overcutting of forests and as a
consequence erosion and loss of available agricultural land; and
``(7) recent initiatives by the international financial
institutions to develop and utilize decentralized solar, hydro,
biomass, geothermal, and wind energy should be significantly
expanded to make renewable energy resources increasingly available
to the world's poor on a wide scale.''
