Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§13438 Telecommuting Study

Title 42 › CHAPTER 134 — ENERGY POLICY › SUBCHAPTER VIII — REDUCTION OF OIL VULNERABILITY › Part B — Oil and Gas Demand Reduction and Substitution › § 13438

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, working with the Secretary of Transportation, must study what telecommuting would cost and save for the energy and transportation sectors. The study must estimate how much commuting would drop by travel type and number of commuters; how many lives might be saved; how much pollution would fall (with the Environmental Protection Agency); how much energy use and money would be saved by travel type; and the social effects of wide use of telecommuting. The study must be finished within 180 days after October 24, 1992. A short report of the results must be sent to the U.S. House of Representatives and to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources within 60 days after the study is done.

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Title 42, §13438

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(a)Study

The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall conduct a study of the potential costs and benefits to the energy and transportation sectors of telecommuting. The study shall include—

(1)an estimation of the amount and type of reduction of commuting by form of transportation type and numbers of commuters;

(2)an estimation of the potential number of lives saved;

(3)an estimation of the reduction in environmental pollution, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency;

(4)an estimation of the amount and type of reduction of energy use and savings by form of transportation type; and

(5)an estimation of the social impact of widespread use of telecommuting.

(b)Report to Congress

This study shall be completed no more than one hundred and eighty days after October 24, 1992. A report, summarizing the results of the study, shall be transmitted to the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate no more than sixty days after completion of this study.

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42 U.S.C. § 13438

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110