---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7903"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7903"
heading: "Technology inventory for developing countries"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7903"
units:
  - "Chapter 86 — Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries"
---

# §7903. Technology inventory for developing countries

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Commerce, shall conduct an inventory of [greenhouse gas intensity](/usc/22/7901.md?p=3) reducing technologies that are developed, or under development in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), to identify technologies that are suitable for transfer to, deployment in, and commercialization in the developing countries identified in the report submitted under [section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title](/usc/22/7902.md?p=a-2-A).
- (b) **Report—** Not later than 180 days after the completion of the inventory under [subsection (a)](#a), the Secretary of State and the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Energy shall jointly submit to Congress a report that—
  - (1) includes the results of the completed inventory;
  - (2) identifies obstacles to the transfer, deployment, and commercialization of the inventoried technologies;
  - (3) includes results from previous Federal reports related to the inventoried technologies; and
  - (4) includes an analysis of market forces related to the inventoried technologies.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–240, title VII, § 733, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XVI, § 1611, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1114.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided, see section 739 of Pub. L. 101–240, set out as a note under section 7901 of this title.