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    [Federal Register: April 26, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 81)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 24613-24614]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr26ap00-131]

                        Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 13150 of April 21, 2000


                Federal Workforce Transportation

                By the authority vested in me as President by the
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                America, including the Transportation Equity Act for
                the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178), section 1911 of
                the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-486),
                section 531(a)(1) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984
                (26 U.S.C. 132), and the Federal Employees Clean Air
                Incentives Act (Public Law 103-172), and in order to
                reduce Federal employees' contribution to traffic
                congestion and air pollution and to expand their
                commuting alternatives, it is hereby ordered as
                follows:

                Section 1. Mass Transportation and Vanpool
                Transportation Fringe Benefit Program. (a) By no later
                than October 1, 2000, Federal agencies shall implement
                a transportation fringe benefit program that offers
                qualified Federal employees the option to exclude from
                taxable wages and compensation, consistent with section
                132 of title 26, United States Code, employee commuting
                costs incurred through the use of mass transportation
                and vanpools, not to exceed the maximum level allowed
                by law (26 U.S.C. 132 (f)(2)). These agency programs
                shall comply with the requirements of Internal Revenue
                Service regulations for qualified transportation fringe
                benefits under section 1.132-9 of title 26, Code of
                Federal Regulations, and other guidance.

                    (b) Federal agencies are encouraged to use any
                nonmonetary incentive that the agencies may otherwise
                offer under any other provision of law or other
                authority to encourage mass transportation and vanpool
                use, as provided for in section 7905(b)(2)(C) of title
                5, United States Code.

                Sec. 2. Federal Agencies in the National Capital
                Region. Federal agencies in the National Capital Region
                shall implement a ``transit pass'' transportation
                fringe benefit program for their qualified Federal
                employees by no later than October 1, 2000. Under this
                program, agencies shall provide their qualified Federal
                employees, in addition to current compensation, transit
                passes as defined in section 132(f)(5) of title 26,
                United States Code, in amounts approximately equal to
                employee commuting costs, not to exceed the maximum
                level allowed by law (26 U.S.C. 132(f)(2)). The
                National Capital Region is defined as the District of
                Columbia; Montgomery, Prince George's, and Frederick
                Counties in Maryland; Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon, and
                Prince William Counties in Virginia; and all cities now
                or hereafter existing in Maryland or Virginia within
                the geographic area bounded by the outer boundaries of
                the combined area of said counties.

                Sec. 3. Nationwide Pilot Program. The Department of
                Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency,
                and the Department of Energy shall implement a
                ``transit pass'' transportation fringe benefit program,
                as described in section 2 of this order, for all of
                their qualified Federal employees as a 3 year pilot
                program by no later than October 1, 2000. Before
                determining whether the program should be extended to
                other Federal employees nationwide, it shall be
                analyzed by an entity determined by the agencies
                identified in section 4 of this order to ascertain,
                among other things, if it is effective in reducing
                single occupancy vehicle travel and local area traffic
                congestion.

                Sec. 4. Guidance. Federal agencies shall develop plans
                to implement this order in consultation with the
                Department of the Treasury, the Department of
                Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency,
                the Office of Personnel Management, the General
                Services Administration, and the Office of Management
                and Budget. Federal agencies that currently have more
                generous programs or benefits in place may continue to
                offer those programs

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                or benefits. Agencies shall absorb the costs of
                implementing this order within the sums received
                pursuant to the President's FY 2001 budget request to
                the Congress.

                Sec. 5. Judicial Review. This order is not intended to
                and does not create any right or benefit, substantive
                or procedural, enforceable at law by any party against
                the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities,
                its officers or employees, or any other person.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                     April 21, 2000.

[FR Doc. 00-10552
Filed 4-25-00; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P

 
 

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