[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3292-S3293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1877. Mr. BARRASSO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle B of title I of division C, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 3117. PROHIBITION ON RESTRICTIONS ON POWER-GENERATION 
                   PROJECTS BY UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL 
                   DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION IN CERTAIN 
                   COUNTRIES.

       Section 1451 of the Better Utilization of Investments 
     Leading to Development Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 9671) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(j) Prohibition on Restrictions on Power-generation 
     Projects in Certain Countries.--
       ``(1) Prohibition on certain restrictions on power-
     generation projects.--The Corporation shall not implement or 
     enforce any rule, regulation, policy, procedure, or guideline 
     that would prohibit or restrict the source of energy used by 
     a power-generation project the purpose of which is to provide 
     affordable electricity in an IDA-eligible country or an IDA-
     blend country.
       ``(2) Limitation on board.--The Board of the Corporation 
     shall not, whether directly or through authority delegated by 
     the Board, reject a power-generation project in an IDA-
     eligible country or an IDA-blend country based on the source 
     of energy used by the project.
       ``(3) All-of-the-above energy development strategy.--The 
     Corporation shall promote a technology- and fuel-neutral, 
     all-of-the-above energy development strategy for IDA-eligible 
     countries and an IDA-blend

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     countries that includes the use of oil, natural gas, coal, 
     hydroelectric, wind, solar, and geothermal power and other 
     sources of energy.
       ``(4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       ``(A) IDA-eligible country.--The term `IDA-eligible 
     country' means a country eligible for support from the 
     International Development Association and not the 
     International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
       ``(B) IDA-blend country.--The term `IDA-blend country' 
     means a country eligible for support from both the 
     International Development Association and the International 
     Bank for Reconstruction and Development.''.
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