Automotive Repair Facilities Guidebook

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Consolidated
Screening Checklist for Automotive Repair Facilities Guidebook as a public service to the
automotive service and repair industry. EPA’s Office of Compliance, through various meetings
with industry representatives, facility owners, and technicians, determined there was a need for
compliance assistance to automotive repair shops to help them attain or remain in compliance
with applicable federal environmental regulations. The checklist and guidebook highlight
important or key environmental requirements as they apply to the various federal environmental
programs. This guidebook is an update to the 1997 guidebook. EPA has revised several
environmental regulations applicable to the automotive service and repair industry since the last
publication, specifically the shallow non-hazardous industrial waste injection wells known as
Class V wells and, the applicability of the spill prevention and countermeasures and control
program to automotive fueling tanks and used oil storage. The motor vehicle air conditioning is
expanded to include retrofitting motor vehicle air conditioning units and the use of alternative
refrigerants. Additional environmental requirements are added as reminders should the shop
owner plan to expand or build a new facility, or use weed killer, insect spray or restroom cleaners
and disinfectants around the shop.
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With each model year, your automotive applications are expected to deliver increasingly sophisticated

With each model year, your automotive applications are expected to deliver increasingly sophisticated
and integrated functionality. From navigation to driver assistance, networking to infotainment, automotive
systems call for high-quality, highly reliable underlying technology, as well as design flexibility to
meet emerging needs. For more and more automotive electronics designers, that underlying technology
is programmable logic.
In response to rapid changes in consumer electronics as well as government mandates, turn to programmable
logic devices (PLDs) to get your unique products out the door faster. When you need to prototype
and demonstrate your designs to OEMs, count on PLDs to help you meet your timeline—and even
let you make last-minute modifications without changing your board. Without the design respins
common in ASIC development, PLDs can also present a cost and time advantage. What’s more, PLDs
enable a single “platform” design which can easily be modified to suit the needs of different vehicle
classes, from mass market to luxury models.
Altera is known and trusted for offering the market’s broadest range of high-quality, automotive-grade
PLDs and structured ASICs. Our commitment to the automotive industry is demonstrated not only by
our reliable devices but also the reference designs, intellectual property (IP), software tools, and
development kits that help you get off the ground fast.

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Oracle’s commitment to providing industry

Oracle applications and technology can
help you innovate by rapidly improving
communication and efficiency among the
disparate areas and processes of your business.
And they can help you extend integration
externally to improve connectedness with
your suppliers and customers. Today, more
than 300 automotive industry firms run
Oracle applications that help them:
• Reduce time to market on new designs
• Increase pipeline visibility
• Reduce costs faster than prices
• Achieve higher throughput, decrease
inventories, and reduce waste
• Meet OEM-specific just-in-time (JIT)
requirements
• Enhance the customer experience

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European automotive industry

The CARS 21 High Level Group has examined the major policy areas which impact the
competitiveness of the European automotive industry and has agreed on a number of
recommendations which aim to enhance the industry’s global competitiveness and
employment while sustaining further progress in safety and environmental performance at anprice affordable to the consumer. In the area of simplification the group recommends replacing 38 EC directives by UNECE. regulations and introducing self- or virtual testing for 25 directives and UNECE regulations. One directive is recommended for repeal. The group proposes a set of better regulation principles which should apply to the regulatory process in the automotive sector. The application of these should enable the legislator to improve the quality of regulations while minimising costs for economic operators. The group recommends that efforts to increase the international harmonisation of motor vehicle regulations should be maintained with a view to involving key vehicle markets and to extend harmonisation to areas not yet covered.

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DRAFT WISCONSIN MERCURY SOURCEBOOK: AUTOMOTIVE

Mercury is used in automotive applications for lighting switches, antilock brake systems, and active ride control. These combined applications result in a calculated 9.8 metric tons per year of elemental mercury.Communities need to consider automotive use of mercury both at the production point of the vehicle and when the vehicle is disposed of or shredded at automobile salvage facilities. Vehicles are the most recycled product on the planet (94% of autos which go out of registration are recovered for recycling, and 75% of each vehicle by weight is recycled).However, the switches in cars are not generally recycled - except in Minnesota

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AUTOMOTIVE

The automotive industry is one of the largest industries in the United States. It creates 6.6 million direct and spin-off jobs and produces $243 billion in payroll compensation, or 5.6% of private sector compensation. For every worker directly employed by an automaker, nearly seven spin-off jobs are created. (Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers)

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