ARA SPRING MEETINGS

Board Meeting, Hill Day and State Legislative Summit – Events You Can Not Afford to Miss!

BY BETSY BECKWITH

fair implementation of the new statutory provision requiring automakers to provide access to part numbers, names and descriptions of those parts subject to recall campaigns.

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Your participation in the upcoming ARA 2016 Hill Day is critical to build on the momentum cul- tivated within the 114th Congress and with the current NHTSA Administrator. Hundreds of meet- ings as well as a multitude of communications have occurred with policymakers to educate them on the profes- sional automotive recycling pro- fession and its critical need for parts data. Now we need your real life, on-the-ground stories to keep our issues in the forefront of the congressional and regulatory agendas.

It is indeed the right time for you to clear your schedules so that

you can come to Washington in April. Your partic- ipation is critical, especially as you consider the fol- lowing points:

• Policymakers continue to demand answers and solutions from the automakers and parts suppliers

on the ever increasing number of recall campaigns. Many are dissatisfied with the recent voluntary agreement reached between automakers and NHTSA on recall remedy approaches and will likely pursue legislative/regulatory options to increase automaker accountability and overall remedy rates. ARA must build on its success of last year and work to make the new access to parts data mandate effective and more widely applicable. It is within this context that professional automotive recyclers must continue to urge manufacturers to recognize that their systemic and widespread recall campaigns affect the entire automotive parts supply chain and that the inventories of professional automotive recycling facilities must be included in all attempts to successfully manage a recall campaign. ARA Hill Day presents the perfect opportunity for you to take this message to Capitol Hill. • The regulatory agencies continue to propose rules that if adopted would place unfair burdens on businesses like professional automotive recyclers

he new year is well underway but the echo of the automotive recycling pro- fession’s legislative victory of late 2015 can still be heard within the halls of Congress and within the offices of the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA). Now more than ever is the time for the voices of professional automotive recyclers to be heard by our nation’s policymakers. Join your colleagues in our nation’s Capital this April to urge prompt and

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