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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 10USC2259]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
          CHAPTER 134--MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
 
Sec. 2259. Transit pass program: personnel in poor air quality 
        areas
        
    (a) Establishment of Program.--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, and 
Marine Corps who are assigned to duty, and to Department of Defense 
civilian officers and employees who are employed, in a poor air quality 
area.
    (b) Poor Air Quality Areas.--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.

(Added Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title X, Sec. 1082(a)(1)], 
Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-285.)


                         Time for Implementation

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title X, Sec. 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].''
