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The most significant success occurred in and around Baltimore, where the Baltimore Regional Auto Theft Team, (RATT), a multi-jurisdictional task force, has seen a 50 percent drop in motor vehicle theft rates since 1995. The Michigan Auto Theft Prevention Board requires all grantees to provide matching funds for anti-theft efforts. Police departments and other grant fund recipients must provide 25 percent of total program costs. Most state statutes require the governing board of the auto theft prevention authority to ensure that grant money is dedicated solely to auto theft prevention activities. Washington’s statute provides that: “Expenditures from the account. | Automotive Repair Shops Case Study ME 4171 Automotive Repair Shops In the following you will be given a case study which was performed by a consulting firm in the late eighties regarding the waste generated by automotive repair shops in California. A lot of you will have had experience with automotive body repair or at least know somebody who had such an experience. You don t have to go far to find examples of these shops in your town. In the following we will take a look at some issues related to the sustainability of this type of industry. INDUSTRY PROFILE DESCRIPTION OF INDUSTRY The specific companies audited in this study were selected from the industry classifications which include top and body shops and paint shops. The establishments in this industry are engaged in general automotive and body repair with particular focus on collision repair and painting. These shops are distributed throughout the state. The heaviest concentrations are near urban centers and in industrial areas. The majority of these establishments are small in size with an average of 7 employees. Of the 6 audited companies 1 had less than 5 employees 3 had between 5 and 10 employees and 2 had over 10 employees. In a previous study conducted by SCS Engineers 1982 automotive paint and body shops were included as part of a larger small-quantity hazardous waste generator study. Of the 24 companies representing this industry 17 had between 1 and 10 employees the remaining 7 had between 11 and 25 employees. The automotive paint and body industry can be divided into two distinct subsets. The first consists of shops that work only on collision repair frame and front-end adjustments and body painting. These companies generate paint-associated hazardous wastes almost entirely. These wastes include toxic and ignitable thinners toxic paint wastes paint sludges and oil- and solventcontaminated rags empty cans with paint and thinner residues and contaminated paint booth filters. The second group of shops