§794 Energy Conservation Study

Summary

The Federal Energy Administrator must study ways to save energy and send a report to Congress within six months after June 22, 1974. The study must look at whether limiting fuel or energy‑intensive exports could save energy and how that would affect trade and foreign relations; ways to boost industrial recycling and resource recovery, including the costs and fuel tradeoffs compared with using new materials; and ways to encourage industry to use energy more efficiently. Within 90 days after June 22, 1974, the Secretary of Transportation, after talking with the Federal Energy Administrator, must give Congress an Emergency Mass Transportation Assistance Plan to save energy by expanding and improving public transit and getting more people to ride instead of drive. The plan must recommend emergency operating grants for cities, help to buy buses and rail cars (including whether to speed up federal aid), tests of fare‑free or low‑fare systems (and reduced off‑peak fares for elderly and disabled), parking to serve transit riders, and possible tax incentives for transit users.