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        H.R.325

                       One Hundred Fourth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
  the fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide for an optional provision for the 
  reduction of work-related vehicle trips and miles travelled in ozone 
    nonattainment areas designated as severe, 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. OPTIONAL EMPLOYER MANDATED TRIP REDUCTION.

    Section 182(d)(1)(B) of the Clean Air Act is amended to read as 
follows:
        ``(B) The State may also, in its discretion, submit a revision 
    at any time requiring employers in such area to implement programs 
    to reduce work-related vehicle trips and miles travelled by 
    employees. Such revision shall be developed in accordance with 
    guidance issued by the Administrator pursuant to section 108(f) and 
    may require that employers in such area increase average passenger 
    occupancy per vehicle in commuting trips between home and the 
    workplace during peak travel periods. The guidance of the 
    Administrator may specify average vehicle occupancy rates which 
    vary for locations within a nonattainment area (suburban, center 
    city, business district) or among nonattainment areas reflecting 
    existing occupancy rates and the availability of high occupancy 
    modes. Any State required to submit a revision under this 
    subparagraph (as in effect before the date of enactment of this 
    sentence) containing provisions requiring employers to reduce work-
    related vehicle trips and miles travelled by employees may, in 
    accordance with State law, remove such provisions from the 
    implementation plan, or withdraw its submission, if the State 
    notifies the Administrator, in writing, that the State has 
    undertaken, or will undertake, one or more alternative methods that 
    will achieve emission reductions equivalent to those to be achieved 
    by the removed or withdrawn provisions.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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

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