Sec. 4. Engagement with ally or partner nations
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The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Team USA, and the Assistant, shall launch, in accordance with applicable nuclear technology export laws (including regulations), an international initiative to modernize the civil nuclear outreach carried out by the United States for the purpose of establishing cooperative financing relationships for the export of civil nuclear technology, components, materials, and infrastructure to countries in the coalition described in subsection (b). The coalition referred to in subsection
(a)is a coalition of countries that— is developed for purposes of carrying out the initiative described in subsection (a); and includes each ally or partner nation that is willing to participate in the coalition. In carrying out the initiative described in subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall— assist nongovernmental organizations and appropriate offices, administrations, agencies, laboratories, and programs of the Department of Energy in providing education and training to foreign governments in nuclear safety, security, and safeguards— through engagement with the International Atomic Energy Agency; or independently, if the applicable entity determines that it would be more advantageous under the circumstances to provide the applicable education and training independently; assist the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency to expand the support provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency to embarking civil nuclear energy nations for nuclear safety, security, and safeguards; expand outreach by the Assistant to the private investment community to create public-private financing relationships to assist in the export of civil nuclear technology to countries in the coalition described in subsection (b); seek to coordinate, to the maximum extent practicable, the work carried out by each of— the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; the Department of Energy; the Department of Commerce; the International Atomic Energy Agency; the Nuclear Energy Agency; and the nuclear regulatory agencies and organizations of embarking civil nuclear energy nations and ally or partner nations; and improve the regulatory framework to allow for the expeditious exporting and importing of civil nuclear technologies and materials.