§794 Energy Conservation Study

Summary

The Federal Energy Administrator must study ways to save energy and send a report to Congress no later than six months after June 22, 1974. The study must look at things like 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 and the costs and fuel tradeoffs compared with using new materials; and ways to use incentives or penalties to make industry use energy more efficiently. Within ninety days of 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. The plan must include recommendations for emergency temporary grants to help states and local agencies pay for expanded urban service; extra help to buy buses and rail cars, including whether to speed up aid under section 142(a)(2) of title 23; demo projects for free or low fares and reduced fares for elderly and disabled at nonpeak times; help for park‑and‑ride and corridor parking; and whether tax incentives for transit users are feasible.