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SEC. 6104. IMPACT ON AGENCY’S PRIMARY MISSION. 
In implementing the requirements of this subtitle, 
each agency should adopt compliance strategies that are 
consistent with the agency’s primary mission. 
SEC. 6105. SAVINGS CLAUSE. 
Nothing in this title or any amendment made by this 
title shall be interpreted to preempt or limit the authority 
of a State to take any action to address global warming. 
SEC. 6106. DEFINITIONS. 
In this subtitle: 
(1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(2) The term ‘‘carbon dioxide equivalent’’ 
means, for each greenhouse gas, the quantity of the 
greenhouse gas that makes the same contribution to 
global warming as 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide, as 
determined by the Administrator, taking into ac-
count the global warming potentials published by the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 
(3) The term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given 
to that term in section 551 of the National Energy 
Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8259). 
(4) The term ‘‘greenhouse gas’’ means— 
(A) carbon dioxide; 
(B) methane; 
(C) nitrous oxide; 
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(D) hydrofluorocarbons; 
(E) perfluorocarbons; 
(F) sulfur hexafluoride; or 
(G) any other anthropogenically-emitted 
gas that the Administrator, after notice and 
comment, determines contributes to global 
warming to a non-negligible degree. 
SEC. 6107. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to implement this subtitle. 
Subtitle B—Federal Government 
Energy Efficiency 
SEC. 6201. FEDERAL VEHICLE FLEETS. 
Section 303 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 
U.S.C. 13212) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (g); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(f) VEHICLE EMISSION REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) PROHIBITION.—No Federal agency shall 
acquire a light duty motor vehicle or medium duty 
passenger vehicle that is not a low greenhouse gas 
emitting vehicle. 
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‘‘(2) GUIDANCE.—Each year, the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency shall issue 
guidance identifying the makes and model numbers 
of vehicles that are low greenhouse gas emitting ve-
hicles. In identifying such vehicles, the Adminis-
trator shall take into account the most stringent 
standards for vehicle greenhouse gas emissions ap-
plicable to and enforceable against motor vehicle 
manufacturers for vehicles sold anywhere in the 
United States. The Administrator shall not identify 
any vehicle as a low greenhouse gas emitting vehicle 
if the vehicle emits greenhouse gases at a higher 
rate than such standards allow for the manufactur-
er’s fleet average grams per mile of carbon dioxide- 
equivalent emissions for that class of vehicle, taking 
into account any emissions allowances and adjust-
ment factors such standards provide. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the term ‘medium duty passenger vehicle’ 
has the meaning given that term section 523.2 of 
title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.’’. 
SEC. 6202. AGENCY ANALYSES FOR MOBILITY ACQUISI-
TIONS. 
(a) COST ESTIMATE REQUIREMENT.—Each Federal 
agency that owns, operates, maintains, or otherwise funds 
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