big business and gov't to charge you more$$$

[hkspwrsche]

Big businesses and the federal gov't EPA are teaming up using the guise of helping the enviroment.
The plan is to drive small autobody repair shops and the true artist out of the business to control market share and drive pricing through the roof!
Notice that these are not eviromentalist trying to save the earth but large shops attempting to gain the remaining market share by using the EPA.
Help stop this now and tell them to enforce the laws they have not make new ones!

Ignore this and you'll see Maaco paint jobs for $5k and insurance premiums for only $7k a year! Only a year long waiting list to paint your fender!

http://www.abrn.com/abrn/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=148419

For those of you inclined to write or call Ms Teal here's the pertinent info

email teal.kim@epa.gov

Phone (919) 541-5580

I hope everyone will take the time to contact her via either or both methods. And I trust everyone will do it in a diplomatic and courteous manner and not be ranting which will serve no purpose other than to alienate her towards small aka hobbyist users.

The more mail and phone calls she gets the larger impact it is going to have on her decision making process. Remember, if no one complains then they assume what they are proposing must be fine and carry on with their initial plans. It's only when the wheel squeaks does anyone pay attention to it- so start squeaking.

It appears there is still time to contact her and hopefully make a difference. I for one would love to know how many times she was contacted by communities with such complaints as she alludes to. My personal bets are it is a small number that has magically grown to 'many' in the justification for such legislation. In reality IF a community is having such problems it CAN be resolved on a local level via ordinances and zoning without need for Federal Governmental intervention. I intend to remind her of this fact.

Please repost/forward and at least write something basic to the EPA like
" I oppose new regulations of refinish materials."

Thanks
H

[svandamme]

lol, welcome to Europe.

[randywebb]

Thanks! I'm going to contact her and ask her to speed up implementation of the rule, since I have asthma.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by randywebb
Thanks! I'm going to contact her and ask her to speed up implementation of the rule, since I have asthma.

let me know if you need medicine.... got some quality stuff for that, FDA will surely approve it once it get's through the red tape...

[cstreit]

That article really doesn't support your post. Is there more? I'd be happy to write but I can't get much from that article other than "EPA is avaluating usage of HAP's"

[hkspwrsche]

On behalf of the Automotive Service Association (ASA) and the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), we are writing to address the possible regulation of area source emissions from automotive refinishing. ASA is the largest and oldest independent repair association in the nation. ASA’s 13,000 member businesses employ more than 65,000 independent auto service technicians. NADA is the national trade association that represents 20,000 franchised dealerships employing more than one million employees, a significant percentage of whom engage in automotive service and repair.

Franchised dealers and independent repairers are the businesses that America’s motoring public looks to for the repair of their vehicles. We appreciate EPA allowing us the opportunity for input as it moves forward with potential regulation of area source emissions from automotive refinishing. Your visits during the last year to collision repair facilities and industry events will certainly prove helpful as you develop draft rules.

ASA and NADA support an approach that would control the purchase and use of automotive refinishing products, not unlike that used by EPA to regulate motor vehicle air conditioning refrigerants today. Shops in our industry would be required to certify to EPA that they met minimum equipment and facility standards, such as the model equipment guidelines established by a joint EPA-OSHA industry workgroup several years ago (see attached). Shop certification might also require a federal tax identification number, a business license, and/or a valid state sales tax number.

Moreover, prospective purchasers and users of automotive refinishing products would be required to be employed by a certified shop and would need to be trained and tested on VOC management. Right now, for example, I-CAR offers training parameters for collision professionals that are generally accepted by all facets of the collision repair industry.

Clearly, reasonable controls on the purchase and use of automotive refinishing products is key to helping eliminate unnecessary VOC emissions from this industry sector.
Please feel free to contact either of us if we can provide more information regarding this matter.

Sincerely,
Robert L. Redding, Jr. Doug I. Greenhaus
Washington, D.C. Representative Director, Environment, Health and Safety
ASA NADA"

[hkspwrsche]

anyone who paints their own car already knows about this but, here is a site with many more updates.

http://p2forum.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=general

[widebody911]

Were's Zois? I'm sure he could add some context to this thread.

[Joe Bob]

First I've heard of this.....

There ARE many little bandit shops that are regularly hunted down and given cease and desist orders. They usually are in residential areas that are NOT zoned for such activity. They usually are in garages that are fire hazards and dump the waste in the sewers and such.

They spray and use no controls and the overspray hits other cars which prompts calls to the local enviro thugs who come out and take away the sprayers lively hood.....is THAT what you are talking about?

If so....yup it's true.

Personal use of early style paints can still be used by buying them in hobbyist sizes, one Liter or smaller. I knew a guy that bought 20 cases of quarts. It's there, you just have to look for it.

Look at California, in the 70s you couldn't see the mountains and kids....like me, were blowing chunks after recess. NOW, with a significantly more amount of cars, industry and such, the air is cleaner.

To do so involves SOME sacrifices....if that means the *********s on Monster Garage can't get candy apple lacquer like back in the 50s.....oh well, strip the damn thing and use a three part paint system.