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[CITE: 42USC13438]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 134--ENERGY POLICY
 
             SUBCHAPTER VIII--REDUCTION OF OIL VULNERABILITY
 
          Part B--Oil and Gas Demand Reduction and Substitution
 
Sec. 13438. Telecommuting study


(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.

(Pub. L. 102-486, title XX, Sec. 2028, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3067.)
