S 1405 · 94th Congress · Energy
Mandatory Energy Conservation Act
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Introduced2
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EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.(1975-04-10)
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Mandatory Energy Conservation Act - Title I: Rationing - Requires the President, under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, to promulgate and put into effect within 90 days a rule providing for the establishment of a program for the rationing of gasoline which shall include, but not be limited to, a gasoline rationing program which would prohibit the use of each private motor vehicle covered by such program in the United States for at least one twenty-four hour calendar day period in each and every seven calendar day period following the effective date of such rule. Provides that each individual subject to such program shall be entitled to select the twenty-four hour period during which his vehicle shall be prohibited from utilizing highways. Directs the Federal Energy Administrator, within 60 days of the enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress and the Governor of each States plans for the implementation and administation of such rationing program, including cost analysis. States that the rationing program established pursuant to this Act shall terminate on December 31, 1980, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide by law. Title II: Petroleum Import Quotas -…
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