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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part B · Chapter 134 — Energy Policy

§ 13438. Telecommuting study

Statutory text

(a)

Study

The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall conduct a study of the potential costs and benefits to the energy and transportation sectors of telecommuting. The study shall include—

(1)

an estimation of the amount and type of reduction of commuting by form of transportation type and numbers of commuters;

(2)

an estimation of the potential number of lives saved;

(3)

an estimation of the reduction in environmental pollution, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency;

(4)

an estimation of the amount and type of reduction of energy use and savings by form of transportation type; and

(5)

an estimation of the social impact of widespread use of telecommuting.

(b)

Report to Congress

This study shall be completed no more than one hundred and eighty days after . A report, summarizing the results of the study, shall be transmitted to the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate no more than sixty days after completion of this study.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Energy Policy Act of 1992

    Pub. L. 102–486 title XX § 2028 · 106 Stat. 2776

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 13438

    (Pub. L. 102–486, title XX, § 2028, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3067.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 102–486, title XX, § 2028, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3067.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 2028. TELECOMMUTING STUDY. (a) Study.— The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall conduct a study of the potential costs and benefits to the energy and transportation sectors of telecommuting. The study shall include— (1) an estimation of the amount and type of reduction of commuting by form of transportation type and numbers of commuters; (2) an estimation of the potential number of lives saved; (3) an estimation of the reduction in environmental pollution, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency; (4) an estimation of the amount and type of reduction of energy use and savings by form of transportation type; and (5) an estimation of the social impact of widespread use of telecommuting. (b) This study shall be completed no more than one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act. A report, Reports. summarizing the results of the study, shall be transmitted to the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate no more than sixty days after completion of this study.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XX, § 2028, , 106 Stat. 3067.)

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