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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5554 

To amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to ensure that vehicles in Federal 

fleets comply with certain low greenhouse gas emission standards, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 8, 2020 

Mr. DESAULNIER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 

the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to ensure that 

vehicles in Federal fleets comply with certain low greenhouse gas emission standards, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Federal Fleet 

5 Act of 2020’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FEDERAL FLEET EMISSION REQUIREMENTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 303(f) of the Energy Pol8 icy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13212(f)) is amended— 


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1 (1) in paragraph (1), by— 

2 (A) striking subparagraph (A) and insert3 ing the following new subparagraph: 

4 ‘‘(A) COVERED FEDERAL ENTITY.—The 

5 term ‘covered Federal entity’ means any entity 

6 that owns, operates, leases, or otherwise con7 trols or is assigned a Federal fleet (as such 

8 term is defined in subsection (b)(3)).’’; 

9 (B) striking subparagraph (C); 

10 (C) redesignating subparagraph (B) as 

11 subparagraph (C); and 

12 (D) inserting after subparagraph (A) the 

13 following new subparagraph: 

14 ‘‘(B) LOW GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTING

15 VEHICLE.—The term ‘low greenhouse gas emit16 ting vehicle’ means a light duty or medium duty 

17 vehicle that meets, at a minimum— 

18 ‘‘(i) if a model year 2012 through 

19 2016 vehicle, the requirements of the 

20 greenhouse gas emission standards for 

21 such vehicle that were published in the 

22 Federal Register by the Environmental 

23 Protection Agency and the Department of 

24 Transportation on May 7, 2010, in the 

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1 house Gas Emission Standards and Cor2 porate Average Fuel Economy Standards’ 

3 (75 Fed. Reg. 25324); or 

4 ‘‘(ii) if a model year 2017 or later ve5 hicle, the requirements of the greenhouse 

6 gas emission standards for such vehicle 

7 that were published in the Federal Reg8 ister by the Environmental Protection 

9 Agency and the Department of Transpor10 tation on October 15, 2012, in the final 

11 rule titled ‘2017 and Later Model Year 

12 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emis13 sions and Corporate Average Fuel Econ14 omy Standards’ (77 Fed. Reg. 62624).’’; 

15 and 

16 (2) in paragraph (2)— 

17 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘Fed18 eral agency’’ and inserting ‘‘covered Federal en19 tity’’; 

20 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

21 ‘‘agency’’ each place it appears and inserting 

22 ‘‘covered Federal entity’’; and 

23 (C) by striking subparagraph (C). 


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1 (b) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 30 days after the 

2 date of the enactment of this section, the Administrator 

3 of the Environmental Protection Agency shall— 

4 (1) issue guidance identifying the makes and 

5 model numbers of vehicles that are low greenhouse 

6 gas emitting vehicles, as required by section 

7 303(f)(3)(A) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 

8 U.S.C. 13212(f)(3)(A)); and 

9 (2) in issuing such guidance, utilize the defini10 tion of ‘‘low greenhouse gas emitting vehicle’’ in sec11 tion 303(f)(1)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 

12 13212(f)(1)(B)), as amended by subsection (a). 

13 (c) EFFECT ON ACQUISITIONS.—The amendments in 

14 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to acquisitions 

15 made after the date on which guidance is issued pursuant 

16 to subsection (b). 

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