NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION for NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION

Health Issues HCR

H.R. 3200: Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Educated Members of Congress on impact legislation would have on ready mixed concrete industry.

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Small Business Administration (SBA); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Transportation, Dept of (DOT)

Bills named: H.R. 3200 (111th)

Small Business SMB

(No bill) Lobbied Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee supporting the Office of Advocacy at the Small Business Administration.

Contacted: Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Small Business Administration (SBA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Transportation TRA

H.R. 2569 - To reauthorize surface transportation research, development, and technology transfer activities, and for other purposes. H.R. 3357 - To restore sums to the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes. H.R. 3617 - To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs. H.R. ____ - Reauthorization of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act a Legacy for Users the current bill expires September 30, 2009. Congress is expected to begin working on a replacement bill for the next six-year period during its 2009 session. NRMCA effort has been to encourage a speedy expedition of this process.

Contacted: SENATE; Transportation, Dept of (DOT); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Small Business Administration (SBA); Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 3617 (111th), H.R. 3357 (111th), H.R. 2569 (111th)

Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear) WAS

Unnumbered bill addressing water, air and ground pollution from coal combustion byproducts. NRMCA also sent a letter to the EPA opposing proposed fly ash reclassification to hazardous waste

Contacted: SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP); Small Business Administration (SBA)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Power Tax-Off Tax Correction an initiative to provide a federal fuel tax credit for fuel consumed by the power take-off of concrete mixer trucks.

Contacted: SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Small Business Administration (SBA); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Insurance INS

H.R. 3121 & S. 2284 - Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007 - lobbied for extension of current program to include a building code study. S. 970 - Community Building Code Admin Grant Act - a grant program establishing competitive building code grant programs. H.R. 3377 - Disaster Response, Recovery, and Mitigation enhancement Act of 2009 H.R. 2592 the Safe building Code Incentive Act establishes states to adopt nationally recognized model building codes.

Contacted: SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Executive Office of the President (EOP); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Small Business Administration (SBA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: S. 2284 (111th), H.R. 3121 (111th), H.R. 2592 (111th), H.R. 3377 (111th), S. 970 (111th)

Energy/Nuclear ENG

H.R. 2454 - To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. H.R. 2569 - To reauthorize surface transportation research, development, and technology transfer activities, and for other purposes. Numbered and unnumbered bills addressing energy saving benefits of green buildings and green pavements.

Contacted: Transportation, Dept of (DOT); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Small Business Administration (SBA); SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 2569 (111th), H.R. 2454 (111th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

H.R. 1409 & S.560 - Employee Free Choice Act - A bill that amends the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes. Unnumbered Bill on Mandatory Binding Arbitration

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); Transportation, Dept of (DOT); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Small Business Administration (SBA)

Bills named: H.R. 1409 (111th), S. 560 (111th)