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US CodeTitle 42Chapter 82

Chapter 82

SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL

Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare

115 sections

Sections

§ 6901

Congressional findings

Medium

§ 6901a

Congressional findings: used oil recycling

Very short

§ 6902

Objectives and national policy

Medium

§ 6903

Definitions

Long

§ 6904

Governmental cooperation

Short

§ 6905

Application of chapter and integration with other Acts

Medium

§ 6906

Financial disclosure

Short

§ 6907

Solid waste management information and guidelines

Short

§ 6908

Small town environmental planning

Medium

§ 6908a

Agreements with Indian tribes

Very short

§ 6911

Office of Solid Waste and Interagency Coordinating Committee

Medium

§ 6911a

Assistant Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency; appointment, etc.

Very short

§ 6912

Authorities of Administrator

Medium

§ 6913

Resource Recovery and Conservation Panels

Short

§ 6914

Grants for discarded tire disposal

Short

§ 6914a

Labeling of lubricating oil

Very short

§ 6914b

Degradable plastic ring carriers; definitions

Short

§ 6914b–1

Regulation of plastic ring carriers

Short

§ 6915

Annual report

Short

§ 6916

General authorization

Medium

§ 6917

Office of Ombudsman

Short

§ 6921

Identification and listing of hazardous waste

Very long

§ 6922

Standards applicable to generators of hazardous waste

Medium

§ 6923

Standards applicable to transporters of hazardous waste

Medium

§ 6924

Standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities

Very long

§ 6925

Permits for treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste

Very long

§ 6926

Authorized State hazardous waste programs

Long

§ 6927

Inspections

Long

§ 6928

Federal enforcement

Long

§ 6929

Retention of State authority

Short

§ 6930

Effective date

Medium

§ 6931

Authorization of assistance to States

Short

§ 6933

Hazardous waste site inventory

Medium

§ 6934

Monitoring, analysis, and testing

Medium

§ 6935

Restrictions on recycled oil

Medium

§ 6936

Expansion during interim status

Medium

§ 6937

Inventory of Federal agency hazardous waste facilities

Medium

§ 6938

Export of hazardous wastes

Medium

§ 6939

Domestic sewage

Medium

§ 6939a

Exposure information and health assessments

Long

§ 6939b

Interim control of hazardous waste injection

Medium

§ 6939c

Mixed waste inventory reports and plan

Long

§ 6939d

Public vessels

Short

§ 6939e

Federally owned treatment works

Medium

§ 6939f

Long-term storage

Long

§ 6939g

Hazardous waste electronic manifest system

Long

§ 6941

Objectives of subchapter

Short

§ 6941a

Energy and materials conservation and recovery; Congressional findings

Short

§ 6942

Federal guidelines for plans

Medium

§ 6943

Requirements for approval of plans

Long

§ 6944

Criteria for sanitary landfills; sanitary landfills required for all disposal

Short

§ 6945

Upgrading of open dumps

Very long

§ 6946

Procedure for development and implementation of State plan

Medium

§ 6947

Approval of State plan; Federal assistance

Medium

§ 6948

Federal assistance

Long

§ 6949

Rural communities assistance

Medium

§ 6949a

Adequacy of certain guidelines and criteria

Long

§ 6951

Functions

Very short

§ 6952

Development of specifications for secondary materials

Short

§ 6953

Development of markets for recovered materials

Very short

§ 6954

Technology promotion

Very short

§ 6955

Marketing policies, establishment; nondiscrimination requirement

Very short

§ 6956

Authorization of appropriations

Very short

§ 6961

Application of Federal, State, and local law to Federal facilities

Long

§ 6962

Federal procurement

Long

§ 6963

Cooperation with Environmental Protection Agency

Short

§ 6964

Applicability of solid waste disposal guidelines to Executive agencies

Short

§ 6965

Chief Financial Officer report

Very short

§ 6966

Increased use of recovered mineral component in federally funded projects involving procurement of cement or concrete

Medium

§ 6966a

Increased use of recovered mineral component in federally funded projects involving procurement of cement or concrete

Medium

§ 6966b

Use of granular mine tailings

Short

§ 6966c

Best practices for battery recycling and labeling guidelines

Medium

§ 6966d

Consumer recycling education and outreach grant program; Federal procurement

Long

§ 6971

Employee protection

Long

§ 6972

Citizen suits

Long

§ 6973

Imminent hazard

Medium

§ 6974

Petition for regulations; public participation

Short

§ 6975

Separability

Very short

§ 6976

Judicial review

Medium

§ 6977

Grants or contracts for training projects

Short

§ 6978

Payments

Very short

§ 6979

Labor standards

Short

§ 6979b

Law enforcement authority

Very short

§ 6981

Research, demonstration, training, and other activities

Long

§ 6982

Special studies; plans for research, development, and demonstrations

Very long

§ 6983

Coordination, collection, and dissemination of information

Long

§ 6984

Full-scale demonstration facilities

Medium

§ 6985

Special study and demonstration projects on recovery of useful energy and materials

Medium

§ 6986

Grants for resource recovery systems and improved solid waste disposal facilities

Medium

§ 6987

Authorization of appropriations

Very short

§ 6991

Definitions and exemptions

Medium

§ 6991a

Notification

Medium

§ 6991b

Release detection, prevention, and correction regulations

Very long

§ 6991c

Approval of State programs

Long

§ 6991d

Inspections, monitoring, testing, and corrective action

Long

§ 6991e

Federal enforcement

Medium

§ 6991f

Federal facilities

Long

§ 6991g

State authority

Very short

§ 6991h

Study of underground storage tanks

Medium

§ 6991i

Operator training

Medium

§ 6991j

Use of funds for release prevention and compliance

Very short

§ 6991k

Delivery prohibition

Medium

§ 6991l

Tanks on tribal lands

Short

§ 6991m

Authorization of appropriations

Short

§ 6992

Scope of demonstration program for medical waste

Medium

§ 6992a

Listing of medical wastes

Medium

§ 6992b

Tracking of medical waste

Medium

§ 6992c

Inspections

Medium

§ 6992d

Enforcement

Medium

§ 6992e

Federal facilities

Medium

§ 6992f

Relationship to State law

Short

§ 6992h

Health impacts report

Short

§ 6992i

General provisions

Short

§ 6992j

Effective date

Very short

§ 6992k

Authorization of appropriations

Very short