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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 565 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.565

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
           the sixth day of January, two thousand and fifteen

                                 An Act

 
   To reduce the operation and maintenance costs associated with the 
 Federal fleet by encouraging the use of remanufactured parts, 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. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Vehicle Repair Cost Savings 
Act of 2015''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
    Congress finds that, in March 2013, the Government Accountability 
Office issued a report that confirmed that--
        (1) there are approximately 588,000 vehicles in the civilian 
    Federal fleet;
        (2) Federal agencies spent approximately $975,000,000 on repair 
    and maintenance of the Federal fleet in 2011;
        (3) remanufactured vehicle components, such as engines, 
    starters, alternators, steering racks, and clutches, tend to be 
    less expensive than comparable new replacement parts; and
        (4) the United States Postal Service and the Department of the 
    Interior both informed the Government Accountability Office that 
    the respective agencies rely on the use of remanufactured vehicle 
    components to reduce costs.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
    In this Act--
        (1) the term ``Federal agency'' has the meaning given that term 
    in section 102 of title 40, United States Code; and
        (2) the term ``remanufactured vehicle component'' means a 
    vehicle component (including an engine, transmission, alternator, 
    starter, turbocharger, steering, or suspension component) that has 
    been returned to same-as-new, or better, condition and performance 
    by a standardized industrial process that incorporates technical 
    specifications (including engineering, quality, and testing 
    standards) to yield fully warranted products.
SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT TO USE REMANUFACTURED VEHICLE COMPONENTS.
    The head of each Federal agency--
        (1) shall encourage the use of remanufactured vehicle 
    components to maintain Federal vehicles, if using such components 
    reduces the cost of maintaining the Federal vehicles while 
    maintaining quality; and
        (2) shall not encourage the use of remanufactured vehicle 
    components to maintain Federal vehicles, if using such components--
            (A) does not reduce the cost of maintaining Federal 
        vehicles;
            (B) lowers the quality of vehicle performance, as 
        determined by the employee of the Federal agency responsible 
        for the repair decision; or
            (C) delays the return to service of a vehicle.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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