Member Benefits
Please contact the PMAK office for membership applications or with any questions pertaining to membership.
Provide safety, education, and training opportunities
- Certified Employee Training Program (CETP) to fulfill requirements of NFPA 58
- HazMat Employee Training to fulfill DOT’s requirements
- District Meetings each spring and fall with information/education on current industry needs
- Educational seminars at convention each June
- Schools and seminars scheduled when necessary to update or learn new methods/needs
- Library of educational and safety audiovisuals (no charge for use)
- Literature for consumer education and safety
Provide Information
- PMAK Propane News quarterly magazine
- Work with the Kansas Corporation Commission in publishing and updating the Kansas Alternative Fuels Directory
- Networking with fellow industry members at convention, trade show, and meetings (a valuable learning tool) Provide Products Necessary in Your Business
- Brochures, pamphlets, etc. to education consumers and satisfy your duty-to-warn
- Decals and labels for tanks, cylinders, and trucks; pamphlets, fuel meter tickets, etc.
- Endorsement of drug and alcohol testing company and of emergency response provider
Maintain a Working Relationship with State Regulatory Agencies
- Worked with the State Fire Marshal’s Office in establishing a Propane Advisory Board
- Informs marketers of changes pertaining to NFPA 54 and NFPA 58 requirements
- Provides a training program for propane dispenser operators
- Works with Kansas Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures Division to keep members informed of any changes of regulations
Represent Your Interests in the Kansas Legislature
- Instrumental in establishing the Kansas LP-Gas Container Law restricting anyone else from filling tanks owned by you
- During such unexpected crisis as the price spikes in 1989 – 90, spending many hours providing information to ward off additional regulation and price intervention
- Successfully promoted and implemented HB 2038 in 2003 which established the Kansas Propane Education & Research Council
- Instrumental in obtaining alternative fuels tax incentives
- Supported and testified for the tax exemption for business machinery and equipment
Represent Your Interest in Congress and Federal Regulatory Agencies by Working with the National Propane Gas Association
- Getting propane exempt from DOT’s proposal to prohibit “wet lines”
- Keeping DOT from establishing rules which would mandate computer tracking of each propane delivery
- Keeping the use of 1075 as the hazard ID number for shipments labeled “Propane”
- Eliminating vehicles with a capacity of 3500 gallons or less from DOT’s $300 per year registration fee
- Persuasion with code officials to eliminate any prohibition of propane appliance use below grade from the International Mechanical Code (combined the codes of ICBO, BOCA, and SBCCI)
- Works with NPGA to promote propane as a clean burning, affordable alternative fuel
- Supported NPGA efforts to exempt propane from the overabundant requirements of EPA’s Risk Management Plan
- Provided information and pleas to DOT and Kansas’ congressional delegation to obtain relief from
- DOT’s cargo tank rules
- Stopping implementation of DOT’s proposed hours-of-service regulations which would be costly and unnecessary for propane delivery
These are a few of the reasons ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP DOESN’T COST……IT PAYS!!