[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 325 Received in Senate (RDS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 325


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 12, 1995

                                Received

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend the Clean Air Act to provide for an optional provision for 
  the reduction of work-related vehicle trips and miles travelled in 
ozone nonattainment areas designated as severe, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. OPTIONAL EMPLOYER MANDATED TRIP REDUCTION.

    Section 182(d)(1)(B) of the Clean Air Act is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(B) The State may also, in its discretion, submit a 
        revision at any time requiring employers in such area to 
        implement programs to reduce work-related vehicle trips and 
        miles travelled by employees. Such revision shall be developed 
        in accordance with guidance issued by the Administrator 
        pursuant to section 108(f) and may require that employers in 
        such area increase average passenger occupancy per vehicle in 
        commuting trips between home and the workplace during peak 
        travel periods. The guidance of the Administrator may specify 
        average vehicle occupancy rates which vary for locations within 
        a nonattainment area (suburban, center city, business district) 
        or among nonattainment areas reflecting existing occupancy 
        rates and the availability of high occupancy modes. Any State 
        required to submit a revision under this subparagraph (as in 
        effect before the date of enactment of this sentence) 
        containing provisions requiring employers to reduce work-
        related vehicle trips and miles travelled by employees may, in 
        accordance with State law, remove such provisions from the 
        implementation plan, or withdraw its submission, if the State 
        notifies the Administrator, in writing, that the State has 
        undertaken, or will undertake, one or more alternative methods 
        that will achieve emission reductions equivalent to those to be 
        achieved by the removed or withdrawn provisions.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 12, 1995.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.