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10 U.S.C. § 2259 — Transit pass program: personnel in poor air quality areas
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**(a) Establishment of Program.—** To encourage Department of Defense personnel assigned to duty, or employed, in poor air quality areas to use means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles to commute to or from the location of their duty assignments, the Secretary of Defense shall exercise the authority provided in [section 7905 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section7905&num=0&edition=prelim) to establish a program to provide a transit pass benefit under subsection (b)(2)(A) of that section for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force who are assigned to duty, and to Department of Defense civilian officers and employees who are employed, in a poor air quality area.
**(b) Poor Air Quality Areas.—** In this section, the term “poor air quality area” means an area—
(1) that is subject to the national ambient air quality standards promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under section 109 of the Clean Air Act ([42 U.S.C. 7409](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7409&num=0&edition=prelim)); and
(2) that, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a nonattainment area with respect to any of those standards.
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**(a) Establishment of Program.—** To encourage Department of Defense personnel assigned to duty, or employed, in poor air quality areas to use means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles to commute to or from the location of their duty assignments, the Secretary of Defense shall exercise the authority provided in [section 7905 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section7905&num=0&edition=prelim) to establish a program to provide a transit pass benefit under subsection (b)(2)(A) of that section for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force who are assigned to duty, and to Department of Defense civilian officers and employees who are employed, in a poor air quality area.
**(b) Poor Air Quality Areas.—** In this section, the term “poor air quality area” means an area—
(1) that is subject to the national ambient air quality standards promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under section 109 of the Clean Air Act ([42 U.S.C. 7409](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7409&num=0&edition=prelim)); and
(2) that, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a nonattainment area with respect to any of those standards.
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**(a)** For the purpose of this section—
(1) the term “employee” means an employee as defined by section 2105, a member of a uniformed service, and a student who provides voluntary services under section 3111;
(2) the term “agency” means—
(A) an Executive agency;
(B) an entity of the legislative branch; and
(C) the judicial branch;
(3) the term “entity of the legislative branch” means the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (including the Botanic Garden), the Capitol Police, the Congressional Budget Office, the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, the Government Publishing Office, the Library of Congress, and the Office of Technology Assessment; and
(4) the term “transit pass” means a transit pass as defined by section 132(f)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
**(b)**
(1) The head of each agency may establish a program to encourage employees of such agency to use means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles to commute to or from work.
(2) A program established under this section may involve such options as—
(A) transit passes (including cash reimbursements therefor, but only if a voucher or similar item which may be exchanged only for a transit pass is not readily available for direct distribution by the agency);
(B) furnishing space, facilities, or services to bicyclists; and
(C) any non-monetary incentive which the agency head may otherwise offer under any other provision of law or other authority.
**(c)** The functions of an agency head under this section shall—
(1) with respect to the judicial branch, be carried out by the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts;
(2) with respect to the House of Representatives, be carried out by the Committee on House Administration
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**(a) Promulgation**
(1) The Administrator—
(A) within 30 days after December 31, 1970, shall publish proposed regulations prescribing a national primary ambient air quality standard and a national secondary ambient air quality standard for each air pollutant for which air quality criteria have been issued prior to such date; and
(B) after a reasonable time for interested persons to submit written comments thereon (but no later than 90 days after the initial publication of such proposed standards) shall by regulation promulgate such proposed national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards with such modifications as he deems appropriate.
(2) With respect to any air pollutant for which air quality criteria are issued after December 31, 1970, the Administrator shall publish, simultaneously with the issuance of such criteria and information, proposed national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards for any such pollutant. The procedure provided for in paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection shall apply to the promulgation of such standards.
**(b) Protection of public health and welfare**
(1) National primary ambient air quality standards, prescribed under subsection (a) shall be ambient air quality standards the attainment and maintenance of which in the judgment of the Administrator, based on such criteria and allowing an adequate margin of safety, are requisite to protect the public health. Such primary standards may be revised in the same manner as promulgated.
(2) Any national secondary ambient air quality standard prescribed under subsection (a) shall specify a level of air quality the attainment and maintenance of which in the judgment of the Administrator, based on such criteria, is requisite to protect the public welfare from any know
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2257
§ 2257. Use of recruiting materials for public re-
lations
The Secretary of Defense may use for public
relations purposes of the Department of Defense
any advertising materials developed for use for
recruitment and retention of personnel for the
armed forces. Any such use shall be under such
conditions and subject to such restrictions as
the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe.
(Added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, § 574(a),
Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 624.)
§ 2259. Transit pass program: personnel in poor
air quality areas
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.—To encour-
age Department of Defense personnel assigned
to duty, or employed, in poor air quality areas
to use means other than single-occupancy motor
vehicles to commute to or from the location of
their duty assignments, the Secretary of De-
fense shall exercise the authority provided in
section 7905 of title 5 to establish a program to
provide a transit pass benefit under subsection
(b)(2)(A) of that section for members of the
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space
Force who are assigned to duty, and to Depart-
ment of Defense civilian officers and employees
who are employed, in a poor air quality area.
(b) POOR AIR QUALITY AREAS.—In this section,
the term ‘‘poor air quality area’’ means an
area—
(1) that is subject to the national ambient
air quality standards promulgated by the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency under section 109 of the Clean Air Act
(42 U.S.C. 7409); and
(2) that, as determined by the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a
nonattainment area with respect to any of
those standards.
(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X,
§ 1082(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–285
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 7409
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
November 15, 1990, referred to in subsec. (e), was in
the original ‘‘enactment of the Clean Air Act Amend-
ments of 1989’’, and was translated as meaning the date
of the enactment of Pub. L. 101–549, popularly known as
the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, to reflect the
probable intent of Congress.
Section was formerly classified to section 1857c–3 of
this title.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 108 of act July 14, 1955, was renum-
bered section 115 by Pub. L. 91–604 and is classified to
section 7415 of this title.
AMENDMENTS
1998—Subsec. (f)(3), (4). Pub. L. 105–362 struck out par.
(3), which required reports by the Secretary of Trans-
portation and the Administrator to be submitted to
Congress by Jan. 1, 1993, and every 3 years thereafter,
reviewing and analyzing existing State and local air
quality related transportation programs, evaluating
achievement of goals, and recommending changes to
existing programs, and par. (4), which required that in
each report after the first report the Secretary of
Transportation include a description of the actions
taken to implement the changes recommended in the
preceding report.
1990—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 101–549, § 108(a), inserted
first sentence and struck out former first sentence
which read as follows: ‘‘The Administrator shall, after
consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and
State and local officials and within 180 days after Au-
gust 7, 1977, and from time to time thereafter, publish
guidelines on the basic program elements for the plan-
ning process assisted under section 7505 of this title.’’
Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 101–549, § 108(b), in introductor
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