49 U.S.C. § 32916 — Reports to Congress

(a) Annual Report — By January 15 each year, the Secretary of Transportation must send each House of Congress, and publish in the Federal Register, a report reviewing the fuel economy standards set under this chapter. (b) Joint Examinations After Granting Exemptions — (1) After an exemption is granted under section 32904(b)(6), the Secretaries of Transportation and Labor must jointly examine, every year, how well that exemption: (A) achieves this chapter's purposes; (B) improves fuel efficiency (helping conserve oil and cut oil imports); (C) has helped U.S. automobile-manufacturing employment; (D) has avoided unreasonable harm to the U.S. auto manufacturing sector; and (E) has let manufacturers that once qualified as domestic under section 32904(b)(2) later assemble in the U.S. cars of the same model with less than 75% U.S./Canada value added — along with the reasons why. (2) The Secretary of Transportation must include the results of this examination in each annual report filed more than 180 days after such an exemption was granted, or send the results directly to Congress earlier if circumstances call for it.