I 
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 with-
in 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 green-
house gas emission standards, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Federal Fleet 
Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL FLEET EMISSION REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 303(f) of the Energy Pol-
icy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13212(f)) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (1), by— 
(A) striking subparagraph (A) and insert-
ing the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(A) COVERED
FEDERAL
ENTITY.—The 
term ‘covered Federal entity’ means any entity 
that owns, operates, leases, or otherwise con-
trols or is assigned a Federal fleet (as such 
term is defined in subsection (b)(3)).’’; 
(B) striking subparagraph (C); 
(C) redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
subparagraph (C); and 
(D) inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) LOW
GREENHOUSE
GAS
EMITTING 
VEHICLE.—The term ‘low greenhouse gas emit-
ting vehicle’ means a light duty or medium duty 
vehicle that meets, at a minimum— 
‘‘(i) if a model year 2012 through 
2016 vehicle, the requirements of the 
greenhouse gas emission standards for 
such vehicle that were published in the 
Federal Register by the Environmental 
Protection Agency and the Department of 
Transportation on May 7, 2010, in the 
final rule titled ‘Light Duty Vehicle Green-
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house Gas Emission Standards and Cor-
porate Average Fuel Economy Standards’ 
(75 Fed. Reg. 25324); or 
‘‘(ii) if a model year 2017 or later ve-
hicle, the requirements of the greenhouse 
gas emission standards for such vehicle 
that were published in the Federal Reg-
ister by the Environmental Protection 
Agency and the Department of Transpor-
tation on October 15, 2012, in the final 
rule titled ‘2017 and Later Model Year 
Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emis-
sions and Corporate Average Fuel Econ-
omy Standards’ (77 Fed. Reg. 62624).’’; 
and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘Fed-
eral agency’’ and inserting ‘‘covered Federal en-
tity’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘agency’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘covered Federal entity’’; and 
(C) by striking subparagraph (C). 
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(b) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this section, the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency shall— 
(1) issue guidance identifying the makes and 
model numbers of vehicles that are low greenhouse 
gas emitting vehicles, as required by section 
303(f)(3)(A) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 
U.S.C. 13212(f)(3)(A)); and 
(2) in issuing such guidance, utilize the defini-
tion of ‘‘low greenhouse gas emitting vehicle’’ in sec-
tion 
303(f)(1)(B) 
of 
such 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
13212(f)(1)(B)), as amended by subsection (a). 
(c) EFFECT ON ACQUISITIONS.—The amendments in 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to acquisitions 
made after the date on which guidance is issued pursuant 
to subsection (b). 
Æ 
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