---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 17504"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "17504"
heading: "Agency statements with respect to motor vehicle use"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/17504"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 175 — Federal Motor Vehicle Expenditure Control"
---

# §17504. Agency statements with respect to motor vehicle use

- (a) **Contents of Statement.—** The head of each [executive agency](/usc/40/17501.md?p=1) shall include with the appropriation request the agency submits under [section 1108 of title 31](/usc/31/1108.md) for each fiscal year, a statement—
  - (1) specifying—
    - (A) the total [motor vehicle](/usc/40/17101.md?p=2) acquisition, maintenance, leasing, operation, and disposal costs (including obligations and outlays) the agency incurred in the most recently completed fiscal year; and
    - (B) an estimate of those costs for the fiscal year in which the request is submitted and for the succeeding fiscal year; and
  - (2) justifying why the existing and any new [motor vehicle](/usc/40/17101.md?p=2) acquisition, maintenance, leasing, operation, and disposal requirements of the agency cannot be met through the Interagency Fleet Management System the Administrator of General Services operates, a qualified private fleet management firm, or any other method which is less costly to the [Federal Government](/usc/40/17101.md?p=1).
- (b) **Compliance With Requirements.—** The head of each [executive agency](/usc/40/17501.md?p=1) shall comply with the requirements prescribed under [section 17503(b) of this title](/usc/40/17503.md?p=b) in preparing each statement required under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1284; Pub. L. 109–284, § 6(32), Sept. 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 1214.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 17504 | 40:903. | Pub. L. 99–272, title XV, § 15303, Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 336. |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–284 substituted “With” for “with” in heading.