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 92 STAT. 2752

PUBLIC LAW 95-599—NOV. 6, 1978 RETREAD TIRE MANUFACTURERS EXEMPTION FROM RECORDKEEPING

SEC. 317. Section 158(b) of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 1418(b)) is amended by inserting "except the manufacturer of tires which have been retreaded," immediately after "or tires" in the first and second sentences thereof. BASIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STUDY

49 USC 1607 note. Report to Congress.

SEC. 318. The Secretary of Transportation shall make a full and complete investigation and study of establishing and operating a mass transportation system, in whole or in part, which would provide basic services with a minimum of amenities, at low costs. The Secretary shall report to the Congress the results of such investigation and study not later than one year after the date of enactment of this section. STUDIES OF DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS

49 USC 1604 note. Ante, p. 2741.

Report to Congress. Report and legislative recommendations to congressional committees.

SEC. 319. (a) The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct a study of the alternative methods of distributing, by formula, funds apportioned for capital purposes under section 5(a)(4) of the Urban Transportation Act of 1964. The study shall include an evaluation of the appropriate goals of a formula program for the distribution of such capital assistance and an analysis of the various factors which may be used to measure transit usage or need, including vehicle miles, seat miles, fleet or vehicle age, fleet size, population and population density, and such other factors as the Secretary considers necessary or appropriate to achieve such goals. The Secretary shall report to Congress the results of this study not later than January 1, 1980, together with his recommendations for legislation. (b) The Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Public Works and Transportation and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, on or before January 1, 1980, recommendations (including draft legislative proposals to accomplish such recommendations) as to ways and means by which Federal mass transit funds can be allocated on a basis which considers the nature and extent of air pollution as a criterion for the distribution of such funds. In formulating such recommendations, the Secretary (in consultation with the Administrator) shall consider and report back to such committees his findings with respect to, but not limited to, the following: (1) the most appropriate and feasible standards of air quality to be utilized as a criterion of air pollution, including, but not limited to, standards for ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrocarbons; (2) the most appropriate and reliable methods for measuring and monitoring the above air quality standards, including, but not limited to, measuring devices, placement of such devices, frequency of readings, and other procedures relating to measuring air quality; (3) the most appropriate, feasible, and equitable manner in which air pollution measures can be adjusted to take into account seasonal, meteorological, and other variations so that

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