---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2259"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2259"
heading: "Transit pass program: personnel in poor air quality areas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2259"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous Administrative Authority"
---

# §2259. Transit pass program: personnel in poor air quality areas

- (a) **Establishment of Program.—** To encourage [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense personnel assigned to duty, or employed, in poor air quality areas to use means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles to commute to or from the location of their duty assignments, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall exercise the authority provided in [section 7905 of title 5](/usc/5/7905.md) to establish a [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) to provide a transit pass benefit under [subsection (b)(2)(A)](/usc/5/7905.md?p=b-2-A) of that section for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force who are assigned to duty, and to [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense civilian [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) and employees who are employed, in a poor air quality area.
- (b) **Poor Air Quality Areas.—** In this section, the term “poor air quality area” means an area—
  - (1) that is subject to the national ambient air quality [standards](/usc/10/3011.md?p=3) promulgated by the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) under section 109 of the Clean Air Act ([42 U.S.C. 7409](/usc/42/7409.md)); and
  - (2) that, as determined by the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), is a nonattainment area with respect to any of those [standards](/usc/10/3011.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1082(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–285; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(1)(O), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3820.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, and Space Force” for “and Marine Corps”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Time for Implementation

Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1082(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–285, provided that: “The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe the effective date for the transit pass program required under section 2259 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a). The effective date so prescribed may not be later than the first day of the first month that begins on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000].”