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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 165 / Monday, August 30, 2021 / Notices
sectors. To that end, via this general solicitation, the International Trade Administration ITA is requesting public comments on clean technologies export competitiveness. This stakeholder input will inform the Departments effort to develop a U.S.
Clean Technologies Export Competitiveness Strategy, which intends to identify key issues influencing the deployment of these goods and services, highlight potential opportunities and challenges, and identify possible actions for the DOC
and federal government to take in order to foster U.S. export competitiveness in clean technologies sectors.
DATES: Comments will be considered on a rolling basis but are due no later than 5 p.m. Eastern Time on October 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by ITA20210005, by either of the following methods:
Online Submission Strongly Preferred: Submit all electronic public comments via the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to https
www.regulations.gov and enter ITA
20210005 in the Search box. Click on the Comment icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.
Email: cleantech@trade.gov.
Comments submitted by email should be machine-readable and should not be copy-protected.
Due to COVID19 building closures, we are currently temporarily not accepting comments by mail. However, if you are unable to comment via regulations.gov, you may contact cleantech@trade.gov for instructions on submitting your comment.
Instructions: Comments sent by any other method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of the comment period, may not be considered by ITA. All comments received are a part of the public record and will generally be posted for public viewing on www.regulations.gov without change.
Commenters should include the name of the person or organization filing the comment. All personal identifying information for example, name, address voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly accessible.
ITA will not accept anonymous comments.
For those seeking to submit confidential business information CBI
for Government use only, please clearly mark such submissions as CBI and submit an accompanying redacted version to be made public. CBI
comments can be submitted either through www.regulations.gov strongly preferred or by email.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Devin Horne, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 28018, Washington, DC
20230; telephone 202 4820775; email cleantech@trade.gov. Please direct media inquiries to ITAs Office of Public Affairs 202 4823809 or publicaffairs@
trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: On January 27, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad FRN Doc. 2021
02177 E.O. 14008. E.O. 14008 puts climate considerations at the forefront of United States foreign policy and national security. The E.O. also directs agencies that engage in extensive international work to develop strategies and implementation plans for integrating climate considerations into their international work. ITA intends to integrate such considerations into its export promotion work. President Bidens Build Back Better economic recovery plan seeks to mobilize American manufacturing and innovation to ensure that the future is made in all of America by all of Americas workers. By mobilizing American ingenuity to innovate and develop clean technologies products and services that can be deployed at home and exported abroad, we can ensure a just transition while mobilizing a 21st century education workforce and advancing racial equity and inclusion in America.
Scope: Clean technologies is a broad term that can encompass a range of technologies used to address a variety of environmental issues. For the purpose of this request for public comment, ITA
is focused on both established and emerging technologies, and their associated goods and services, that can contribute to a transition to net-zero emissions by significantly removing or reducing the greenhouse gas GHG
emissions in a specific application compared to existing, carbon-intensive technology in the same application.
This notice serves as a general solicitation for public comment and as an initial step in improving ITAs understanding of the current technological and policy landscape.
These technologies can be organized by their ability to reduce GHG emissions in broad economic sectors identified by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as major contributors to global GHG emissions, including:

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1 Electricity and heat production 25
percent of global direct GHG
emissions 2 Agriculture, forestry, and other land use 24 percent of global direct GHG
emissions 3 Industry 21 percent of global direct GHG emissions 4 Transportation 14 percent of global direct GHG emissions 5 Other energy emissions not directly associated with electricity or heat production, such as fuel extraction, refining, processing, and transportation 9.6 percent of global direct GHG emissions 6 Buildings 6.4 percent of global direct GHG emissions Illustrative examples of clean technologies include but are not limited to: Power generation from civil nuclear renewable energy sources; electric vehicles and renewable fuels for road, aviation, rail, maritime shipping, or other transportation; agribusiness, including anaerobic digesters and zeroemission agricultural equipment; smart grid solutions; energy storage; hydrogen fuel cells; carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration; decarbonization technologies for energy production; lowcarbon solutions for heavy industry, such as cement and steel production;
energy efficient advanced manufacturing techniques; and lowcarbon and energy efficient building materials.
For the purpose of this request for public comment, competitiveness entails the capacity to produce and deploy affordable, reliable, and accessible clean technologies and compete in global markets, with the overall aim of accelerating global private sector capabilities to fight the effects of climate change while also bringing benefits to the U.S. economy and people.
Request for Written Comments Instructions: This notice serves as an initial step in improving ITAs understanding of private sector interests, concerns, and policy needs with respect to the potential for exports of clean technologies. This notice is a general solicitation for public comments and further sets forth topics for discussion and comment. ITA seeks broad input from all interested stakeholdersincluding U.S. industry, researchers, academia, and civil societyon the potential opportunities for and challenges to increasing U.S.
clean technologies export competitiveness across multiple industry sectors. Commenters are encouraged to address any or all of the following questions and may respond in
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