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Salvage Vehicle Titling Legislation
Legislation to establish nationally uniform requirements regarding the titling and registration of salvage, non-repairable and rebuilt motor vehicles was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Rick White (R-Wash.). The bill attempts to codify many of the recommendations forwarded by the Motor Vehicle Titling, Registration and Salvage Advisory Committee, convened under the auspices of the Secretary of Transportation pursuant to the Anti-Car Theft Act of 1992. The National Motor Vehicle Safety, Anti-Theft, Title Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 1995" retains the 75 percent of fair market value threshold for the declaration of a salvage vehicle. The bill exempts vehicles from this definition that are of a model year that is at least five years prior to the calendar year in which the vehicle was wrecked, destroyed or damaged.SBA's 1995 Program Results
The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that more than a million small businesses received direct assistance from its programs in fiscal year 1995. The SBA's primary financing program, the 7 (a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, recorded nearly 55,600 loans totaling about $7.8 billion. Aside from financial help, the SBA's national network of business education, counseling and technical assistance programs provided management and business training, and counseling help to 968,700 small businesses and entrepreneurs. The administration also enhanced its online computer information services, including SBA Online and an SBA home page on the World Wide Web.Congressman Sues EPA Over Clean Air Act
Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.) has joined a class action lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to file with Congress a cost/benefit analysis of the Clean Air Act. The analysis has been due since November 1991. Congress mandated that the EPA prepare the analysis in 1990, after estimates were brought forth that compliance with three provisions of the act would cost $104 billion. The law required that the first report be due in November 1991, with follow-up reports in November 1992 and 1994. The EPA has failed to provide any of the reports, prompting Norwood's action. Norwood sits on the House Commerce subcommittees on Health and Environment, Trade and Hazardous Materials, and Energy and Power. These subcommittees provide key oversight of EPA activities.Antifreeze Coalition Meets With EPA
The Antifreeze Coalition met with the director of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Solid Waste to urge the agency to take steps that would exclude antifreeze from hazardous waste requirements to encourage antifreeze recycling. Presently, small businesses in the automotive service sector risk enforcement action if they do not spend resources on toxicity analysis. The coalition believes that regulatory relief from the burdens of hazardous waste regulation is necessary to encourage increased antifreeze recycling and is justified by the low hazard potential of spent antifreeze. The EPA indicated that it was interested in a narrowly tailored approach to take antifreeze recycling outside the hazardous waste requirements.
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