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The HPVA is a corporation organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for charitable purposes. The HPVA is organized and operated exclusively for educational and scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. To further these goals, the HPVA organizes and promotes periodic competitions on land, water and in the air. Annually, the HPVA holds or sanctions a UNITED STATES HUMAN POWERED SPEED CHAMPIONSHIPS. The principal object of the contests is to combine the best in technology with the best in athletic ability to obtain the fastest and most efficient human powered vehicles in the water, on land, and in the air; and to showcase ongoing technological development for speed and for practical human powered vehicles. The HPVA serves as a source of information for all human powered land, water and air records and all other records pertinent to the pursuit of human power. The HPVA also acts as a source of technological information on human powered transportation. The HPVA acts as the United States sanctioning body for races and other sporting events and for new records in human powered land, water and air vehicles set under the Rules of the corporation or under the rules of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association ("IHPVA"). The HPVA may act as a sanctioning body for races and other sporting events and records in North America in non-stored-fuel land, water and air vehicles set under the Rules of the HPVA or of the IHPVA. In all rules, regulations and executive decisions of the HPVA, our overall philosophy and policy is to stimulate and not stifle competition and creativity. To this end, the fewer and simpler the rules, restrictions and regulations, the better.