To require higher standards of automobile fuel efficiency in order to reduce the amount of oil used for fuel by automobiles in the United States by 10 percent beginning in 2016, and for other purposes.

Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation by regulation to prescribe (corporate) average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for automobiles manufactured after 2008 that ensure that the CAFE achieved by automobiles manufactured after 2015 is at least 33 miles per gallon, and meets other specified criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to establish separate standards for different classes of automobiles according to size.

Authorizes the Secretary to establish a CAFE credit trading program to allow a manufacturer that exceeds fuel economy standards to sell credits to another manufacturer.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3762 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3762

 To require higher standards of automobile fuel efficiency in order to 
  reduce the amount of oil used for fuel by automobiles in the United 
    States by 10 percent beginning in 2016, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2005

    Mr. Boehlert (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Platts, Mr. Lewis of 
Georgia, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Gilchrest, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Bartlett 
 of Maryland, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Mr. Leach, Mr. Olver, Mr. 
      Shays, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Gerlach, Ms. Solis, Mrs. Johnson of 
   Connecticut, Mrs. Capps, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Johnson of 
Illinois, Mr. Pallone, and Mr. LoBiondo) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require higher standards of automobile fuel efficiency in order to 
  reduce the amount of oil used for fuel by automobiles in the United 
    States by 10 percent beginning in 2016, 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. AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY STANDARDS.

    (a) In General.--Section 32902 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of 
                this subsection, the'' and inserting ``The''; and
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (i) and (j) in order as 
        subsections (k) and (l), and by inserting after subsection (h) 
        the following:
    ``(i)  Standards for Model Years After 2008.--The Secretary of 
Transportation shall prescribe by regulation average fuel economy 
standards for automobiles manufactured by a manufacturer in model years 
after model year 2008, that shall--
            ``(1) ensure that the average fuel economy achieved by 
        automobiles (including passenger automobiles) manufactured by a 
        manufacturer in model years after 2015 is no less than 33 miles 
        per gallon;
            ``(2) ensure that improvements to fuel economy standards do 
        not degrade the safety of automobiles manufactured by a 
        manufacturer; and
            ``(3) maximize the retention of jobs in the automobile 
        manufacturing sector of the United States.
    ``(j) Sized-Based Standards.--The Secretary may establish separate 
standards for different classes of automobiles (including passenger 
automobiles) according to size.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Such section is further amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1) in the first sentence by inserting 
        ``and subsection (i)'' after ``of this subsection''; and
            (2) in subsection (k) (as redesignated by subsection (a)) 
        by striking ``or (g)'' and inserting ``(g), or (i)''.

SEC. 2. FUEL ECONOMY CREDIT TRADING PROGRAM.

    Section 32903 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Credit Trading Among Manufacturers.--The Secretary may 
establish by regulation a corporate average fuel economy credit trading 
program to allow a manufacturer that exceeds the fuel economy standards 
it is required to meet to sell credits to another manufacturer.''.
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