10 Commerce can provide to the TPCC Working Group. Trade Development will be redirecting its focus and devoting additional resources to export promotion. For example, Trade Development is organizing upcoming environmental trade missions to countries such as Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and to Asia. Other programs include international agencies such as the World Bank, which administers the Global Environmental Facility, the regional development banks and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Also, a large number of U.S. state and local government agencies are involved in investment and export promotion activities, and could assist in the technology cooperation process. But we must bear in mind that while government can assist in this process, it is the private sector, in the United States, that has developed and owns most of the technology which will be involved and it is the private sector which must be engaged if the transfer process to the developing countries is to succeed. This means that American environmental technology (both goods and services) is "transferred" by commercial means. In this sense, environmental technology encompasses an enormous number of products going far beyond the common definitions of environmental control products. For example, U.S. technology employed in food processing equipment, paper making machinery, chemical plants and refrigeration equipment employs safeguards to protect the environment in many ways. And there is growing international recognition that the private sector should play a major role in technology development and transfer. Copies of the two studies by DRI/McGraw Hill for the Department of Commerce are being submitted for the record. A further example of the type of work the Department of Commerce is doing is a recently published Competitive Assessment of the U.S. air pollution control industry. A copy of that study is also being submitted. Mr. Chairman, that concludes my testimony for today. I would be pleased to answer any questions that you or other members of the Committee may have. |