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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§2259 Transit pass program: personnel in poor air quality areas

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 134— - MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY › § 2259

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must create a transit-pass program under section 7905 of title 5 to encourage people not to drive alone. The benefit is for Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force members, and for DoD civilian employees, who are assigned in poor air quality areas. A poor air quality area is one the EPA covers under section 109 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7409) and that the EPA has labeled a nonattainment area for any of those standards.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2259

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)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 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)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); and
(2)that, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is a nonattainment area with respect to any of those standards.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, and Space Force” for “and Marine Corps”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Time for Implementation Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1082(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–285, provided that: “The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe the

Effective Date

for the transit pass program required under section 2259 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a). The

Effective Date

so prescribed may not be later than the first day of the first month that begins on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000].”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2259

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73