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</div><div>2021 Federal Legislative & Regulatory Agenda</div><div><div id="page-template" class="page-container home-page-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 50px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; width: 1170px; max-width: 1170px;"><div class="main-content" style="font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; 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line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> <h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">WASTE AND RECYCLING ISSUES</h4><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/recycled-materials/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Recycled Materials</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to advance a National Recycling Strategy and urges Congress and federal regulatory agencies to implement policies that reduce contamination in the recycling stream, increase processing efficiency, encourage development of the domestic market for recycled materials and focus on actions with the greatest overall environmental benefits.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/national-bottle-bill-legislation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">National “Bottle Bill”</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA opposes implementation of national “Bottle Bill” legislation that places mandatory tax deposits on single-use plastic and aluminum beverage containers.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Environmental Justice – NWRA supports policies seeking to advance high standards of environmental performance and the fair treatment of people of all races, cultures and incomes.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/extended-producer-responsibility/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)</a> – Although NWRA prefers efforts focused on increasing demand for recyclable materials to allow market forces to incentivize recycling, NWRA also may support the design of EPR programs that allows for input from, and gives priority to, the waste and recycling sector in the distribution of funds. Any successful EPR legislation must take into consideration its impact on collection and processing operations while recognizing contractual relationships and existing industry investments.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/energy-generation/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Energy Generation</a> –<span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports policies encouraging the continued use of landfill-produced methane gas as a renewable energy product, both in electricity and transportation applications, and providing for greater transparency and long-term certainty for our industry under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/food-waste/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Food Waste</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports legislation that establishes grants and loans for facilities to install anaerobic digesters that use food or crop waste to produce energy.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/interstate-waste-restrictions/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Interstate Waste Restrictions</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA opposes efforts to place restrictions on the interstate transfer of waste and recyclables.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/import-export-of-waste-and-recycling-materials/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Import/Export of Waste and Recycling Materials</a> –<span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports the free movement of waste and recycling material across international borders consistent with international agreements.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/privatization-of-waste-and-recycling-services/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Privatization of Waste and Recycling Services</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports the privatization of waste collection services at all levels of government when proposed.<h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">SAFETY AND HEALTH ISSUES</h4><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/national-move-over/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">National “Move Over” Laws</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA recommends that the federal government enact incentives for states to adopt “Move Over” laws that cover the waste and recycling industry.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/third-party-distracted-driving/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Third-Party Distracted Driving</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> – NWRA supports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s efforts to combat distracted driving caused by texting, phone use or alcohol/drugs.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/automated-pickup/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Automated Pickup</a> – NWRA believes automated pickup should be encouraged where it is logistically and economically feasible.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/commercial-motor-vehicles/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Commercial Motor Vehicles</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA advocates improving the Compliance, Safety, Accountability’s (CSA) “crash causation” rating system, increasing congressional oversight of the CSA’s Safety Fitness Determination and new vehicle/fuel efficiency grants.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/opioids-crisis/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Opioids Crisis</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA is supportive of continued congressional efforts to crack down on both the supply and demand of opioids.<h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES</h4><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/surface-transportation-infrastructure/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Surface Transportation Infrastructure</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports increasing road capacity including a forward-looking view to address future needs.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/water-infrastructure/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Water Infrastructure</a> – NWRA backs the creation of port performance standards and metrics as well as modernization and scaling to meet demands.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/railways/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Railways</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA encourages incentivizing construction of rail spurs to connect landfills and recycling facilities to railways as part of the restructuring of our nation’s infrastructure priorities.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/autonomous-vehicles/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Autonomous Vehicles</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA believes that safety must always come first when legislative and regulatory decisions are made regarding autonomous vehicles.<h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES</h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Landfill Methane Emissions Regulations –<span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports improvements to EPA’s New Source Performance Standards, Emission Guidelines and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants regulations that promote clarity in the regulatory scheme and lead to increased certainty for municipal solid waste landfills.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Climate<span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> – NWRA recognizes the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit the impacts of climate change while supporting policies that recognize the challenges of quantifying landfill emissions and the emissions reduction strategies that our industry already has incorporated within our facility and fleet operations.<span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">PFAS – NWRA supports the regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) compounds while using sound science, reliable data and attention to practical means to improve the regulatory safety net. Policymakers also should recognize that receivers of PFAS, such as landfills, are essential public services that manage concentrations of PFAS that are dramatically different than highly contaminated sites.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/waters-of-the-u-s-clean-water-act/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Clean Water Act<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> Permitting</a> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports a definition of waters subject to federal regulatory authority that provides regulatory clarity and certainty to our industry.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Coal Ash –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA recognizes EPA as the appropriate body through which any changes to coal ash disposal and storage regulation should be made.<h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">TAX & TORT REFORM ISSUES</h4><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Federal Excise Tax Repeal<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> – NWRA supports repealing the federal excise tax on the first retail sale of all commercial trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) above 33,000 pounds.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Tax Extenders – NWRA advocates extending tax credits for alternative fuels, alternative fuel refueling infrastructure, facilities producing energy from renewable resources and the installation of carbon capture equipment.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">EV Tax Credit – NWRA backs tax incentives for industry adoption of electric vehicles similar to those already in existence for compressed natural gas vehicles.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Carbon Capture – NWRA supports legislation and regulation that incentivizes the capture of carbon dioxide generated at landfills for utilization or secure geological storage.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Tort Reform –<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports tort reform measures that help the civil justice system more equitably balance the interests of parties and diminish abuse of the tort system.<h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">REGULATORY REFORM ISSUES</h4><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Improved Federal Permitting Process –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports procedures to improve the timeliness, predictability and transparency of federal environmental reviews.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Complainant Conflict of Interest – NWRA calls for inclusion of a statement on Consumer Product Safety Commission complaint forms attesting that the complainant does not stand to benefit financially by filing a complaint nor is doing so on behalf of someone who would.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Sue and Settle –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports legislation to end the “sue and settle” process that has established a regulation through litigation culture.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Reasonable Opportunity to Comply –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA backs amendments to federal statutes extending the timeframe for compliance from the existing 60-day time period to a more reasonable 180 days.<p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">OSHA Reporting Requirements – NWRA believes any efforts to reinstate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) previous requirement to electronically submit injury and illness records and publish them on the OSHA website must focus on incentivizing industries to improve their safety records.<h4 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">WORKFORCE ISSUES</h4><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210508072834/https://wasterecycling.org/driver-shortage-and-workforce-development/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Driver Shortage and Workforce Development</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA backs increasing federal support for job training programs at the state and local levels as well as for veterans to address the shortages of commercial vehicle drivers, mechanics and welders.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Increasing the Role of Women in the Industry – NWRA urges the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor to work with the industry to increase the role of women in waste and recycling.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Apprenticeships –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports allowing employers to take a business-related tax credit for hiring an apprentice.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Immigration –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA recognizes the need for sensible immigration reform that allows businesses to address their employment needs.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Joint-Employer –<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> NWRA supports codifying that companies cannot be held responsible for labor violations committed by their contractors and opposes a return to the joint-employer standard set by the National Labor Relations Board’s Browning-Ferris decision.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Department of Labor Overtime Rules – NWRA supports maintaining the Department of Labor’s reform of overtime rules.<p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Department of Labor Persuader Rule – NWRA opposes reinstituting the Department of Labor’s “persuader rule” pertaining to unionization.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>