---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16341"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16341"
heading: "Western Hemisphere energy cooperation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16341"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part H — International Cooperation"
---

# §16341. Western Hemisphere energy cooperation

- (a) **Program—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall carry out a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to promote cooperation on [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) issues with countries of the Western Hemisphere.
- (b) **Activities—** Under the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall [fund](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) activities to work with countries of the Western Hemisphere to—
  - (1) increase the production of [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) supplies;
  - (2) improve [energy efficiency](/usc/42/6291.md?p=5); and
  - (3) assist in the development and transfer of [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) supply and efficiency technologies that would have a beneficial impact on world [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7) markets.
- (c) **Participation by institutions of higher education—** To the extent practicable, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall carry out the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) under this section with the participation of institutions of higher education so as to take advantage of the acceptance of institutions of higher education by countries of the Western Hemisphere as sources of unbiased technical and policy expertise when assisting the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) in—
  - (1) evaluating new technologies;
  - (2) resolving technical issues;
  - (3) working with those countries in the development of new policies; and
  - (4) [training](/usc/42/285e–2.md?p=b-2) policymakers, particularly in the case of institutions of higher education that involve the participation of [minority](/usc/42/299a–1.md?p=d-2) students, such as—
    - (A) [Hispanic-serving institutions](/usc/42/16182.md?p=2); and
    - (B) [part B institutions](/usc/42/16182.md?p=4).
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—
  - (1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2007;
  - (2) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
  - (3) $16,000,000 for fiscal year 2009.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 985, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 908.)