Get Ready to Advocate for Key Vinyl Industry Issues

The 2020 Vinyl Industry Congressional Fly-in is quickly approaching, and registration is now open! The fly-in takes play May 12-13 and is your opportunity to meet directly with your elected officials on Capitol Hill to advance the key issues impacting your business and the vinyl industry.

This year, we’re focusing on:

Water Infrastructure & Open Competition

We remain aggressively proactive toward getting more federal dollars invested in rebuilding and developing water systems while also making those dollars more efficient through competitive bidding. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Water Infrastructure Report Card, there are still an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year in the U.S., wasting approximately 17 percent of all drinking water. Many municipalities still have closed-bid processes in place, but there is one bill that has been introduced that could save billions of taxpayer dollars by introducing an open competition system.

Regulatory Reform

The Trump Administration’s focus on policy making through sound science has been largely helpful to manufacturers , but the PVC MACT and the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Program are two of the most significant and pressing issues where we’re hoping to see progress. Until the PVC MACT is finalized, no new PVC facilities can be built here in the United States – which means all that investment and all those jobs will go offshore.  Meanwhile, the EPP program is a non-consensus based standard that discriminates against PVC to the benefit of inferior products..

With it being a general election year, it’s a great time to come to Washington, and elected officials should be ready to work with their constituents as many face reelection this year. To register for the fly-in, click here.

Please note: the safety of our attendees is of utmost priority, and the VI is closely monitoring the rapidly evolving situation with coronavirus (COVID-19) and will make attendees aware if event details shift due to continued spread and outbreak of the virus. For the latest virus information, please visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.