Industry Classifieds
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:51

SEMA-member companies have posted several new listings for job opportunities (view all here) in the Positions Available section of the Classifieds page of SEMA.org. Working for a SEMA-member company has many advantages. In addition to working for a company that supports and contributes to the success of the overall industry, being employed by a SEMA-member company enables employees to participate in webinars, access free market research, join SEMA committees and more. The newest classified listings posted under Positions Available include:

SEMA members: Have a job opening that you need filled? Members are invited to post classified ads on www.sema.org/classifieds free of charge. Categories available are: Positions Available, Positions Wanted, Rep Opportunities, WD Opportunities, For Sale, Items Wanted, Business Opportunities and Internships. Visit the SEMA Classifieds site for details.

Newest National Monument Designations Pose Continued Threat to Off-Roading
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:31
By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

President Obama recently designated three national monuments, including the 700,000-plus-acre Basin and Range National Monument in eastern Nevada, the 330,000-acre Berryessa Snow Mountain Monument in Northern California and the Waco National Monument in Texas. SEMA opposes the designations since it automatically prohibits new roads or trails for motorized vehicles and requires a new land-management plan be drafted that could lead to more road closures. President Obama has now designated 19 national monuments since 2009, more than any other president.   

SEMA supports a collaborative approach to land-use decisions, including input from local citizens, elected leaders and other stakeholders. This would include requiring national monument designations to gain widespread local support from the communities they impact. Accordingly, SEMA supports legislation in the U.S. Congress to curtail the president’s power to unilaterally designate national monuments by requiring their approval by congress and the impacted state legislature(s).  

For more information on how you can support efforts in Congress to eliminate unilateral national monument designates, visit the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website. For additional details on the recent national monument designations, contact Eric Snyder at erics@sema.org.
Newest National Monument Designations Pose Continued Threat to Off-Roading
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:31
By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

President Obama recently designated three national monuments, including the 700,000-plus-acre Basin and Range National Monument in eastern Nevada, the 330,000-acre Berryessa Snow Mountain Monument in Northern California and the Waco National Monument in Texas. SEMA opposes the designations since it automatically prohibits new roads or trails for motorized vehicles and requires a new land-management plan be drafted that could lead to more road closures. President Obama has now designated 19 national monuments since 2009, more than any other president.   

SEMA supports a collaborative approach to land-use decisions, including input from local citizens, elected leaders and other stakeholders. This would include requiring national monument designations to gain widespread local support from the communities they impact. Accordingly, SEMA supports legislation in the U.S. Congress to curtail the president’s power to unilaterally designate national monuments by requiring their approval by congress and the impacted state legislature(s).  

For more information on how you can support efforts in Congress to eliminate unilateral national monument designates, visit the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website. For additional details on the recent national monument designations, contact Eric Snyder at erics@sema.org.
Newest National Monument Designations Pose Continued Threat to Off-Roading
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:31
By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

President Obama recently designated three national monuments, including the 700,000-plus-acre Basin and Range National Monument in eastern Nevada, the 330,000-acre Berryessa Snow Mountain Monument in Northern California and the Waco National Monument in Texas. SEMA opposes the designations since it automatically prohibits new roads or trails for motorized vehicles and requires a new land-management plan be drafted that could lead to more road closures. President Obama has now designated 19 national monuments since 2009, more than any other president.   

SEMA supports a collaborative approach to land-use decisions, including input from local citizens, elected leaders and other stakeholders. This would include requiring national monument designations to gain widespread local support from the communities they impact. Accordingly, SEMA supports legislation in the U.S. Congress to curtail the president’s power to unilaterally designate national monuments by requiring their approval by congress and the impacted state legislature(s).  

For more information on how you can support efforts in Congress to eliminate unilateral national monument designates, visit the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website. For additional details on the recent national monument designations, contact Eric Snyder at erics@sema.org.
Newest National Monument Designations Pose Continued Threat to Off-Roading
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:31
By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

President Obama recently designated three national monuments, including the 700,000-plus-acre Basin and Range National Monument in eastern Nevada, the 330,000-acre Berryessa Snow Mountain Monument in Northern California and the Waco National Monument in Texas. SEMA opposes the designations since it automatically prohibits new roads or trails for motorized vehicles and requires a new land-management plan be drafted that could lead to more road closures. President Obama has now designated 19 national monuments since 2009, more than any other president.   

SEMA supports a collaborative approach to land-use decisions, including input from local citizens, elected leaders and other stakeholders. This would include requiring national monument designations to gain widespread local support from the communities they impact. Accordingly, SEMA supports legislation in the U.S. Congress to curtail the president’s power to unilaterally designate national monuments by requiring their approval by congress and the impacted state legislature(s).  

For more information on how you can support efforts in Congress to eliminate unilateral national monument designates, visit the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website. For additional details on the recent national monument designations, contact Eric Snyder at erics@sema.org.
Oregon Bills to Eliminate Ethanol/Create Mandatory Miles Traveled Tax Die as Legislature Adjourns
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:23

By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

oregon
Legislation to remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in Oregon contain a percentage of ethanol died when the legislature adjourned for the year.

Legislation to remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in Oregon contain a percentage of ethanol died when the legislature adjourned for the year. The bill did not receive committee consideration. Currently, the state requires that “a retail dealer, nonretail dealer or wholesale dealer may not sell or offer for sale gasoline unless the gasoline contains 10% ethanol by volume.”

The bill recognized that while the current ethanol mandate does not apply to fuel used in antique, all terrain and racing vehicles, there has been an inability to obtain unblended gasoline for engines that may be damaged by ethanol. Separate legislation to convert the state’s current voluntary vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax program to a mandatory program also died. The bill did not receive committee consideration. The mandatory program would have applied to all high-mileage vehicles that have a rating of 55 mpg or better. These high-mileage vehicles would not have paid the gas tax that applies to all other vehicles.

For details, contact Steve McDonald at stevem@sema.org.

Oregon Bills to Eliminate Ethanol/Create Mandatory Miles Traveled Tax Die as Legislature Adjourns
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:23

By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

oregon
Legislation to remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in Oregon contain a percentage of ethanol died when the legislature adjourned for the year.

Legislation to remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in Oregon contain a percentage of ethanol died when the legislature adjourned for the year. The bill did not receive committee consideration. Currently, the state requires that “a retail dealer, nonretail dealer or wholesale dealer may not sell or offer for sale gasoline unless the gasoline contains 10% ethanol by volume.”

The bill recognized that while the current ethanol mandate does not apply to fuel used in antique, all terrain and racing vehicles, there has been an inability to obtain unblended gasoline for engines that may be damaged by ethanol. Separate legislation to convert the state’s current voluntary vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax program to a mandatory program also died. The bill did not receive committee consideration. The mandatory program would have applied to all high-mileage vehicles that have a rating of 55 mpg or better. These high-mileage vehicles would not have paid the gas tax that applies to all other vehicles.

For details, contact Steve McDonald at stevem@sema.org.

Oregon Bills to Eliminate Ethanol/Create Mandatory Miles Traveled Tax Die as Legislature Adjourns
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:23

By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

oregon
Legislation to remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in Oregon contain a percentage of ethanol died when the legislature adjourned for the year.

Legislation to remove the requirement that all gasoline offered for sale in Oregon contain a percentage of ethanol died when the legislature adjourned for the year. The bill did not receive committee consideration. Currently, the state requires that “a retail dealer, nonretail dealer or wholesale dealer may not sell or offer for sale gasoline unless the gasoline contains 10% ethanol by volume.”

The bill recognized that while the current ethanol mandate does not apply to fuel used in antique, all terrain and racing vehicles, there has been an inability to obtain unblended gasoline for engines that may be damaged by ethanol. Separate legislation to convert the state’s current voluntary vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax program to a mandatory program also died. The bill did not receive committee consideration. The mandatory program would have applied to all high-mileage vehicles that have a rating of 55 mpg or better. These high-mileage vehicles would not have paid the gas tax that applies to all other vehicles.

For details, contact Steve McDonald at stevem@sema.org.

Chemical Used in Antifreeze Listed Under Prop. 65; Automotive Cleaning Product Chemical Proposed for Listing
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:06
By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

Effective June 19, 2015, ethylene glycol is now listed as a regulated chemical under Proposition 65 (Prop. 65) by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). The listing specifies that ethylene glycol may cause reproductive toxicity if ingested. OEHHA also recently issued a notice of intent to list 1-bromopropane, a solvent used for cleaning metals, plastics and electronic components, as a chemical known to cause cancer. Both ethylene glycol and 1-bromopropane have automotive-related applications—ethylene glycol in antifreeze and other cooling applications and 1-bromopropane in automotive cleaning products.  

Prop. 65 requires warnings on products containing more than trace amounts of certain chemicals in consumer products. Under Prop. 65, a manufacturer, producer, packager, importer or distributor of a product that causes consumers to be exposed to a listed chemical is required to provide a warning to consumers. Currently, that warning must be given prior to the time of anticipated exposure, but under a new rule currently being considered by OEHHA, the warning would have to be given prior to sale, such as on packaging, websites and catalogs. Current safe-harbor provisions will remain in effect, but the burden is on the manufacturer to show that use of a specific product does not expose users to a particular chemical in greater amounts than permitted under the safe-harbor levels, which are expressed in micrograms per day.  

Businesses and individuals have until August 10, 2015, to submit comments to OEHHA regarding the listing of 1-bromopropane. For additional information, contact Ashley Ailsworth at ashleya@sema.org.
Chemical Used in Antifreeze Listed Under Prop. 65; Automotive Cleaning Product Chemical Proposed for Listing
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 09:06
By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff

Effective June 19, 2015, ethylene glycol is now listed as a regulated chemical under Proposition 65 (Prop. 65) by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). The listing specifies that ethylene glycol may cause reproductive toxicity if ingested. OEHHA also recently issued a notice of intent to list 1-bromopropane, a solvent used for cleaning metals, plastics and electronic components, as a chemical known to cause cancer. Both ethylene glycol and 1-bromopropane have automotive-related applications—ethylene glycol in antifreeze and other cooling applications and 1-bromopropane in automotive cleaning products.  

Prop. 65 requires warnings on products containing more than trace amounts of certain chemicals in consumer products. Under Prop. 65, a manufacturer, producer, packager, importer or distributor of a product that causes consumers to be exposed to a listed chemical is required to provide a warning to consumers. Currently, that warning must be given prior to the time of anticipated exposure, but under a new rule currently being considered by OEHHA, the warning would have to be given prior to sale, such as on packaging, websites and catalogs. Current safe-harbor provisions will remain in effect, but the burden is on the manufacturer to show that use of a specific product does not expose users to a particular chemical in greater amounts than permitted under the safe-harbor levels, which are expressed in micrograms per day.  

Businesses and individuals have until August 10, 2015, to submit comments to OEHHA regarding the listing of 1-bromopropane. For additional information, contact Ashley Ailsworth at ashleya@sema.org.