S. 4078 — Introduced in Senate

II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4078 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 25, 2022Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Mr. Luján) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL 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. 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. 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.