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Toys For Tots, November 6-7
I found this 9/9/09 - an interesting read...go to the side of the web pae regarding the "Vote on the request..." click here
Youth ATVing NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!
As Many of you know, I have been watching this pretty closely. Here's what has been accomplished....
Through your action and support to lift the ban on small cc atvs and motorcycles, the rule has been TEMPORARILY LIFTED by the CPSC!!!
Now, what we need to do is to continue this support....dont leave it to others. It will only last for 2 years at which time we HOPE that this law will be stricken down completely.
We are not out of the woods yet....even though the law is lifted temporarily, the State's Attorney General have to ALSO approve of this measure. Keep on spreading to word to support the sport and the future of YOUTH ATVING!!! THANK YOU!!!!
A NEW BILL HAS BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THE HOUSE AND SENATE TO LIFT THE BAN ON YOUTH ATV'S AND DIRT BIKES !!
PLEASE CLICK HERE AND FILL IN THE FIELDS TO THE RIGHT AND SUBMIT TO SEND TO BOTH THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
BE SURE TO SEND THIS TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW FOR THEIR SUPPORT AS WELL!!!!
On February 10, 2009, a new law regulating lead content in certain products went into effect. This is adversely affecting companies that manufacture or distribute youth model all-terrain vehicles and off-highway motorcycles. Dealers that sell and service those products are being impacted as well. Cant Sell them or buy them or parts for them!
The Specialty Vehicle Institute of America (SVIA) and the Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC) have urgently requested the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and federal legislators to take a common sense approach to implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act's lead provisions.
SVIA and MIC have filed petitions with the CPSC for emergency relief from the provisions. They are also seeking a temporary final rule to exempt ATV and motorcycle parts in order to avoid major disruptions to enthusiasts, to the member companies' businesses, and to the companies' dealer network of thousands of small, independent businesses, which employ tens of thousands of Americans.
BRC is asking all OHV users to continue this contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission and their elected officials today!
Use the following links to send your comments and to contact your Congressional Representatives and the CPSC. Included below is a sample letter regarding the functional ban of all youth-oriented OHVs, which started February 10, 2009.
BRC Letter to CPSC
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/BRC_Let...19.09_FINAL.pdf
CPSC Comment Page
http://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/info.aspx
BRC Rapid Response Center to contact Members of Congress
http://www.sharetrails.org/rapid_response/
Missouri State Representative Tom Self
http://www.tomself.com
Congressional Western Caucus Letter
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/CPSC_We..._6_20090001.pdf
CPSC NAM Request for Emergency Stay
http://www.sharetrails.org/files/CPSC-NAM-...rgency-Stay.pdf
Thanks in advance for your support,
Don Amador
Western Representative
BlueRibbon Coalition
(925) 625-6287
PS: BRC needs your support via membership and donations to help us continue our efforts to champion responsible OHV access to public lands. To sign up as a member or to make a donation, visit http://www.sharetrails.org/donate
Sample Letter that you NEED to send!!
As a member of the OHV community, I want to voice my strong support for petitions filed by the Motorcycle Industry Council and Specialty Vehicle Institute of America to seek emergency relief from provisions, which went into effect on February 10, 2009.
While I do support efforts by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to protect children from lead content in products that truly present a risk to children, I do not believe the Commission intended that metal parts on ATVs and motorcycles be included in that regulation because they do not present a lead risk to children.
As the spring OHV recreation season rapidly approaches and dealers face the prospect of being put out of business, I ask you to support efforts to exclude youth-oriented OHVs from being unnecessarily impacted by this ban.
Sincerely,
Your name &
Address
Ambassador, BlueRibbon Coalition
State Environmental Affairs Coordinator, CA4WDC
PO BOX 127
Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245
C: (209) 304-7693
Email: brdel@sharetrails.org; or del@delalbright.com
“Protecting recreational access and the economic value it brings to America’s rural communities means you’ll be leaving the world a better place; it is a worthy and noble cause to provide for a future America.” Greg Mumm, Executive Director, BlueRibbon Coalition, Jan. 2009
# # #
The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible use of public lands and waters, and encourages individual environmental stewardship. It represents over 10,000 individual members and 1,200 organization and business members, for a combined total of over 600,000 recreationists nationwide. 1-800-258-3742. http://www.sharetrails.org
The Specialty Vehicle Institute of America (SVIA) and the Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC) have urgently requested the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and federal legislators to take a common sense approach to implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act's lead provisions.
SVIA and MIC have filed petitions with the CPSC for emergency relief from the provisions. They are also seeking a temporary final rule to exempt ATV and motorcycle parts in order to avoid major disruptions to enthusiasts, to the member companies' businesses, and to the companies' dealer network of thousands of small, independent businesses, which employ tens of thousands of Americans.
BRC is asking all OHV users to continue this contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission and their elected officials today!
Use the following links to send your comments and to contact your Congressional Representatives and the CPSC. Included below is a sample letter regarding the functional ban of all youth-oriented OHVs, which started February 10, 2009.
BRC Letter to CPSC
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/BRC_Let...19.09_FINAL.pdf
CPSC Comment Page
http://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/info.aspx
BRC Rapid Response Center to contact Members of Congress
http://www.sharetrails.org/rapid_response/
Missouri State Representative Tom Self
http://www.tomself.com
Congressional Western Caucus Letter
http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/CPSC_We..._6_20090001.pdf
CPSC NAM Request for Emergency Stay
http://www.sharetrails.org/files/CPSC-NAM-...rgency-Stay.pdf
Thanks in advance for your support,
Don Amador
Western Representative
BlueRibbon Coalition
(925) 625-6287
PS: BRC needs your support via membership and donations to help us continue our efforts to champion responsible OHV access to public lands. To sign up as a member or to make a donation, visit http://www.sharetrails.org/donate
Sample Letter that you NEED to send!!
As a member of the OHV community, I want to voice my strong support for petitions filed by the Motorcycle Industry Council and Specialty Vehicle Institute of America to seek emergency relief from provisions, which went into effect on February 10, 2009.
While I do support efforts by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to protect children from lead content in products that truly present a risk to children, I do not believe the Commission intended that metal parts on ATVs and motorcycles be included in that regulation because they do not present a lead risk to children.
As the spring OHV recreation season rapidly approaches and dealers face the prospect of being put out of business, I ask you to support efforts to exclude youth-oriented OHVs from being unnecessarily impacted by this ban.
Sincerely,
Your name &
Address
Ambassador, BlueRibbon Coalition
State Environmental Affairs Coordinator, CA4WDC
PO BOX 127
Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245
C: (209) 304-7693
Email: brdel@sharetrails.org; or del@delalbright.com
“Protecting recreational access and the economic value it brings to America’s rural communities means you’ll be leaving the world a better place; it is a worthy and noble cause to provide for a future America.” Greg Mumm, Executive Director, BlueRibbon Coalition, Jan. 2009
# # #
The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible use of public lands and waters, and encourages individual environmental stewardship. It represents over 10,000 individual members and 1,200 organization and business members, for a combined total of over 600,000 recreationists nationwide. 1-800-258-3742. http://www.sharetrails.org
Motorcycle Industry Council
and
Specialty Vehicle Institute of America
Rally Against Youth ATV and Motorcycle Prohibition
INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Motorcycle Industry Council and the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America are doing all they can at Dealer Expo 2009, and at their offices, to help get youth ATVs and motorcycles back on showroom floors. The U.S. Government banned sales of many of these models, beginning on Tuesday, under the lead-content provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA).
"We're implementing a full court press at the Dealer Expo," said Paul Vitrano, general counsel for the MIC and SVIA. "We are rallying everyone at Indy. Pre-printed letters to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which can be signed and we'll send in, will be available throughout the show. Computers will be available in the MIC business center so that dealers and exhibitors can easily make their opinions known to members of Congress."
Everyone is encouraged to visit the Web site of Americans for Responsible Recreational Access, at www.ARRA-access.com, which features a letter generator for constituents to reach their own members of Congress. The MIC also is alerting stakeholders about a new Web site that state Rep. Tom Self of Missouri has launched in support of youth off-highway vehicles. The site, at www.tomself.com, offers e-mail templates to simplify sending messages to members of Congress with oversight of the CPSC.
For weeks, the MIC and SVIA have urged the CPSC to grant (and for members of Congress to support) petitions for temporary exclusions so that youth models could continue to be sold. The powersports industry demonstrated in the petitions, through the scientific analysis required by the CPSIA, that the lead-containing parts of youth ATVs and motorcycles pose no risk of increasing the lead levels in children aged 12 and younger.
On Feb. 5, the CPSC denied a request for an emergency stay, made by the National Association of Manufacturers CPSC Coalition, and joined by the MIC and SVIA. The CPSC stated that it did not have authority under the law to grant such a stay.
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, however, includes provisions that enable the CPSC to grant exclusions for products on a case-by-case basis. The MIC and SVIA believe that the lead-content provisions of the act, which originally were aimed at toys that can be mouthed by children, were never intended to apply to youth ATVs and motorcycles.
On Feb. 10, the lead-content provisions of the CPSIA went into effect. Powersports companies are now prohibited from selling products that are intended primarily for youth, aged 12 and under, and having lead content in excess of the limits identified in the act.
The impact of this act is far-reaching. Applying the new lead-content regulations to youth models has resulted in many smaller models being unavailable to families, and could mean more children riding adult-only ATVs or dirt bikes that are too large for them.
Most of the components making up youth powersports products are in compliance. But some parts unavoidably contain small quantities of lead in excess of the CPSIA limits, such as the valve stems on the tires, the aluminum in some brake components and the terminals on the batteries. Lead in these components is necessary, either because small amounts of lead are needed for safety (such as machining the deep grooves on tire valves, which is needed to assure tire air retention) or functionality (such as the lead in battery terminals, which is needed to conduct electricity).
"It's critical for everyone within the business, and for all of our customers, to step up and support the petitions now in front of the CPSC," Vitrano said. "The ban is harming motorcycling and ATV riding right now. Dealernews has estimated that affected inventories could be more than $100 million. Kids don't have a chance to get on the bikes and ATVs sized for them. We need the power and voice of the industry, as well as enthusiasts, to reinforce our concerns in Washington. We're only asking for common-sense exclusions for powersports parts that simply do not present any risk to children in the real world. Kids don't lick or eat ATV and motorcycle components."
Since 1983, the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America® has promoted the safe and responsible use of All-Terrain Vehicles through rider training programs, public awareness campaigns, and state legislation. The SVIA also serves as a resource for ATV research, statistics, and vehicle standards. The SVIA, based in Irvine, Calif., is a not-for-profit trade association sponsored by Arctic Cat, BRP, CROSSRUNNER, Honda, Kawasaki, KTM, KYMCO, Polaris, Suzuki, Tomberlin and Yamaha. For membership information, call (949) 727-3727. For safety information or to enroll in the ATV RiderCourseSM nearest you, visit www.atvsafety.org and click on "Online Enrollment" or call (800) 887-2887.
CVATVERS - PLEASE GET YOUR LETTER OUT!!! USE THE LINKS PROVIDED! HELP OUR FAMILIES CONTINUE TO PROVIDE ATVING AS A GREAT PAST TIME FOR THEIR FUTURES!!!!