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(b) Any person or legal entity having title to a vehicle which is 

 found abandoned or junked and which vehicle is marked, or has an 

 engine number, dated later than the enactment of appropriate legis- 

 lation, and which vehicle has not been delivered to a scrap metal 

 dealer or to a junk center would be assessed a fine. He would also 

 have to pay all costs for transporting said vehicle to the nearest scrap 

 metal dealer's yard or to a junk center. 



SAUL B. COHEN. As opposed to the auto junkyard problem, there 

 is the problem of auto abandonment on highways, on trails, in 

 hollows, and in parks. An automobile disposal code, on a State 

 basis, seems impossible to enforce, unless tied to the registration of 

 newly acquired automobiles. If all automobile registrations (not 

 ^registrations, obviously) were contingent upon a certificate attest- 

 ing to the legitimate disposal of the previous automobile registered 

 in the applicant's name, it would be possible to control a large pro- 

 portion of vehicles that are abandoned, not in junkyards, but in some 

 of America's most beautiful scenic areas. 



LYLE E. CRAINE. Mr. Haar, reporting for the panel on auto- 

 mobile junkyards, recommends regional automobile disposal agencies 

 financed by some system of taxes on the automobile user. A more 

 direct method, and perhaps more in keeping with our preference 

 for depending on the free enterprise system, would require (or pro- 

 vide incentives) for the automobile manufacturing firm to take re- 

 sponsibility for disposing of all junk automobiles of its own 

 manufacture. Perhaps a Federal subsidy to each firm to cover part 

 of the cost would be appropriate. However, if the manufacturer 

 were required to stand some of the costs he would find incentive to : 

 ( 1 ) Produce more durable cars, and/or ( 2 ) innovate ways to better 

 use the scrap, thus inducing a recycling process resulting in conserva- 

 tion of steel, and/or ( 3 ) increasing the price of cars to cover cost of 

 disposal which would place disposal costs upon the user in a much 

 more direct and efficient way than a system of taxation. 



MICHAEL R. FAGAN.* Much has been said of the blight on our 

 communities' and Nation's highways and, last but not least, in the 

 backyards with regard to the pernicious dumping and abandoning 

 of junk automobiles. Serious consideration must be given to a 

 thorough reevaluation of State and local law requirements which 



*This is an extension of the remarks made by Mr. Fagan during the panel 

 discussion. 



