Lowering FUEL Costs Act of 2022
Bill: S.4078 | Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine (D-NV)
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Lowering Federal Usage of Energy to Lessen Costs Act of 2022 or the Lowering FUEL Costs Act of 2022
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, the General Services Administration, and the Council on Environmental Quality to develop and publicly release short-term and long-term strategies to reduce the cost of transportation fuels for U.S. consumers through federal conservation.
The short-term strategies must be implemented within three months of their public release.

To require the Office of Management and Budget, the General Services 
  Administration, and the Council on Environmental Quality to develop 
       short-term and long-term strategies to reduce the cost of 
transportation fuels for consumers in the United States through Federal 
                 conservation, 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 ``Lowering Federal Usage of Energy to 
Lessen Costs Act of 2022'' or the ``Lowering FUEL Costs Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION FUELS IN THE 
              UNITED STATES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of General Services.
            (2) Chair.--The term ``Chair'' means the Chair of the 
        Council on Environmental Quality.
            (3) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
        the Office of Management and Budget.
            (4) Strategies.--The term ``strategies'' means the short-
        term and long-term strategies to reduce the cost of 
        transportation fuels for consumers in the United States through 
        Federal conservation developed under subsection (b).
            (5) Transportation fuel.--The term ``transportation fuel'' 
        has the meaning given the term in section 211(o)(1) of the 
        Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1)).
    (b) Development of Strategies.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Director, the Administrator, and the 
        Chair, in coordination with the heads of other relevant Federal 
        agencies, shall develop and publicly release short-term and 
        long-term coordinated strategies to reduce the cost of 
        transportation fuels for consumers in the United States through 
        Federal conservation.
            (2) Inclusions.--The strategies shall include--
                    (A) a plan on how the General Services 
                Administration can reduce, for the period during which 
                the average cost of transportation fuel in the United 
                States is greater than the average price of that fuel 
                on December 1, 2021, the usage of transportation fuels 
                by vehicles in the Federal fleet by 10 percent below 
                the average amount of transportation fuels used by 
                those vehicles in 2019, subject to the condition that 
                the plan shall not apply to transportation fuels needed 
                for national defense, homeland security, or law 
                enforcement purposes of the United States; and
                    (B) recommendations to Congress on any legislation, 
                authorities, or administrative actions necessary to 
                reduce the cost of transportation fuels for consumers 
                in the United States.
    (c) Implementation of Short-Term Strategies.--Not later than 3 
months after the date on which the short-term strategies developed 
under subsection (b) are publicly released, the Director, the 
Administrator, and the Chair, in coordination with the heads of other 
relevant Federal agencies, shall begin to implement those short-term 
strategies.
    (d) Savings Clause.--The strategies developed under subsection (b) 
shall not apply to--
            (1) vehicles in the Federal fleet that are not under the 
        management of the Administrator; or
            (2) vehicles under the management of the United States 
        Postal Service.
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