RECREATION VEHICLE DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA

Following the enactment of the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences (EXPLORE) Act in January 2025, Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR) initiated agency implementation efforts. RV Dealers Association (RVDA) has focused on working with ORR to coordinate with the U.S. Department of the Interior (via the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), the U.S. Forest Service (under the U.S. Department of Agriculture), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Office of Management and Budget to support modernizing recreation permitting, expanding digital fee collection, and developing unified outdoor recreation data systems to improve access to federal lands.

The PART Act would require new motor vehicles to have uniquely identifiable markings on catalytic converters, establish a grant program for marking converters in existing vehicles, impose record-keeping requirements on purchasers of used converters, and create a federal criminal offence (with up to five years imprisonment) for the theft, sale or trafficking of stolen emission-control devices. In the House it is introduced as H.R. 5221 (119th Congress) by Rep. Jim Baird (R-IN) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN). In the Senate it is introduced as S. 2238 (119th Congress) by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) on July 10, 2025.