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[CITE: 49USC32916]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
             SUBTITLE VI--MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS
 
            PART C--INFORMATION, STANDARDS, AND REQUIREMENTS
 
                  CHAPTER 329--AUTOMOBILE FUEL ECONOMY
 
Sec. 32916. Reports to Congress

    (a) Annual Report.--Not later than January 15 of each year, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall submit to each House of Congress, and 
publish in the Federal Register, a report on the review by the Secretary 
of average fuel economy standards prescribed under this chapter.
    (b) Joint Examinations After Granting Exemptions.--(1) After an 
exemption has been granted under section 32904(b)(6) of this title, the 
Secretaries of Transportation and Labor shall conduct annually a joint 
examination of the extent to which section 32904(b)(6)--
        (A) achieves the purposes of this chapter;
        (B) improves fuel efficiency (thereby facilitating conservation 
    of petroleum and reducing petroleum imports);
        (C) has promoted employment in the United States related to 
    automobile manufacturing;
        (D) has not caused unreasonable harm to the automobile 
    manufacturing sector in the United States; and
        (E) has permitted manufacturers that have assembled passenger 
    automobiles deemed to be manufactured domestically under section 
    32904(b)(2) of this title thereafter to assemble in the United 
    States passenger automobiles of the same model that have less than 
    75 percent of their value added in the United States or Canada, 
    together with the reasons.

    (2) The Secretary of Transportation shall include the results of the 
examination under paragraph (1) of this subsection in each report 
submitted under subsection (a) of this section more than 180 days after 
an exemption has been granted under section 32904(b)(6) of this title, 
or submit the results of the examination directly to Congress before the 
report is submitted when circumstances warrant.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1074; Pub. L. 103-
429, Sec. 6(42), Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4382.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
                                                 Pub. L. 103-272
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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32916(a)..............................  15:2002(a)(2).                   Oct. 2
0, 1972, Pub. L. 92-513, 86 Stat.
                                                                          947, 
Sec.  502(a)(2); added Dec. 22,
                                                                          1975,
 Pub. L. 94-163, Sec.  301, 89
                                                                          Stat.
 902.
32916(b)(1)...........................  15:2012(c)(1).                   Oct. 2
0, 1972, Pub. L. 92-513, 86 Stat.
                                                                          947, 
Sec.  512(c); added Oct. 10,
                                                                          1980,
 Pub. L. 96-425, Sec.  4(a)(2),
                                                                          94 St
at. 1823.
32916(b)(2)...........................  15:2012(c)(2).
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    In subsection (a), the words ``a report on the review by the 
Secretary'' are substituted for ``a review'' for clarity. The words 
``beginning in 1977'' and the text of 15:2002(a) (2d, last sentences) 
are omitted as executed.
    In subsection (b)(1), before clause (A), reference to section 
32904(b)(4) the 2d time it appears is substituted for ``the amendment 
made to section 2003(b) of this title by section 4(a)(1) of the 
Automobile Fuel Efficiency Act of 1980'' for clarity and to eliminate 
unnecessary words. Clause (B) is substituted for ``achieves the purposes 
of that Act'' for clarity.
    In subsection (b)(2), the reference to ``subsection (a) of this 
section'' is restated to refer to 15:2002(a) rather than 15:2012(a) to 
reflect the apparent intent of Congress. Although 15:2012(c)(2) refers 
to an annual report under 15:2012(a), that provision does not provide 
for an annual report.


                             Pub. L. 103-429

    This makes conforming amendments necessary because of the 
restatement of 15:2003(b)(2)(G) as 49:32904(b)(3) by section 6(36)(B) of 
the bill.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-429, in par. (1), introductory 
provisions, substituted ``32904(b)(6)'' for ``32904(b)(4)'' in two 
places, in par. (1)(E), substituted ``32904(b)(2)'' for 
``32904(b)(1)(A)'', and in par. (2), substituted ``32904(b)(6)'' for 
``32904(b)(4)''.
