Instead of either mileage standard, the committee adopted a plan that would require the Department of Transportation to determine whether the current standard should be raised.

He also signed a law requiring the Department of Records and Information Services to place city publications on its Web site.

Ms. Moskowitz successfully led an effort this year to pass a law requiring the Department of Education to provide quarterly updates on all building projects.

It would require the Department of Labor to prepare an annual list of national labor shortages by occupation.

The Act required the Department of the Treasury to "provide for the relief and maintenance of disabled seamen."

The law had required the Department of Health and Human Services to issue regulations by last Oct. 1.

But in the past, such significant Federal actions have required the Department of Energy to prepare a thorough statement on the environmental consequences.

Section 508 requires the Department of Labor, along with all Federal agencies, to make electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.

Since those surpluses are now exhausted, the bill would require the Department of Agriculture to buy needed commodities to continue the distribution.

It requires the Department of Interior to create an "environmentally sound" oil and gas leasing program within the refuge.