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About Ex-Im | The Agency | Charter Ex-Im Bank Charter: Section 11 Sec. 11. Environmental Policy and Procedures. (a) Environmental effects consideration.- Bank; (B) for which the Bank's support would be critical to its implementation; and (C) which may have significant environmental effects upon the global commons or any country not participating in the project, or may produce an emission, an effluent, or a principal product that is prohibited or strictly regulated pursuant to Federal environmental law. Sec. 11(a)(2) Authority to withhold financing.- The procedures established under paragraph (1) shall permit the Board of Directors, in its judgment, to withhold financing from a project for environmental reasons or to approve financing after considering the potential environmental effects of a project. Sec. 11(b) Use of bank programs to encourage certain exports.- (1) In general.- The Bank shall encourage the use of its programs to support the export of goods and services that have beneficial effects on the environment or mitigate potential adverse environmental effects (such as exports of products and services used to aid in the monitoring, abatement, control, or prevention of air, water, and ground contaminants or pollution, or which provide protection in the handling of toxic substances, subject to a final determination by the Bank, and products and services for foreign environmental projects dedicated entirely to the prevention, control, or cleanup of air, water, or ground pollution, including facilities to provide for control or cleanup, and used in the retrofitting of facility equipment for the sole purpose of mitigating, controlling, or preventing adverse environmental effects, subject to a final determination by the Bank). The Board of Directors shall name an officer of the Bank to advise the Board on ways that the Bank's programs can be used to support the export of such goods and services. The officer shall act as liaison between the Bank and other Federal Government agencies, including the agencies whose representatives are members of the Environmental Trade Promotion Working Group of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, with respect to overall United States Government policy on the environment. Sec. 11(c) Inclusion in report to Congress.- The Bank shall provide in its annual report to the Congress a summary of its activities under subsections (a) and (b). Sec. 11(d) Interpretation.- Nothing in this section shall be construed to create any cause of action. |
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