Sec. 5. Cooperative financing relationships with ally or partner nations and embarking civil nuclear energy nations
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The Secretary, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation, in coordination with the Assistant, shall develop cooperative financing relationships with ally or partner nations or embarking civil nuclear energy nations to advance civil nuclear exports from the United States to ally or partner nations or embarking civil nuclear energy nations.
In this subsection, the term United States competitiveness clause means any United States competitiveness provision in any agreement entered into by the Department of Energy, including— a cooperative agreement; a cooperative research and development agreement; and a patent waiver. In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation shall consider the impact of United States competitiveness clauses on any cooperative financing relationships entered into or proposed to be entered into under that subsection.
The Secretary shall facilitate waivers of United States competitiveness clauses as necessary to facilitate cooperative financing relationships with ally or partner nations or embarking civil nuclear energy nations under subsection (a).