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 100 STAT. 1656

PUBLIC LAW 99-499—OCT. 17, 1986

this Act, the Administrator shall make a grant of $7,500,000 to the State of New Jersey for transportation from residential areas in the State of New Jersey and temporary storage of approximately 14,000 containers of radon contaminated soil which is the subject of a remedial action for which a remedial investigation and feasibility study has been initiated before such date. Such containers shall be transported to and temporarily stored at any site in the State of New Jersey designated by the Governor of such State. For purposes of section 111(a) of CERCLA, the grant under this subsection for transportation and storage of such containers shall be treated as payment of governmental response cost incurred pursuant to section 104 of CERCLA. Waste disposal.

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Law enforcement and crime. 33 USC 1319. 33 USC 1311.

Reports.

Waste disposal.

42 USC 6925.

(c)

UNCONSOUDATED

QUATERNARY

AQUIFER.—Notwithstanding

any other provision of law, no person may— (1) locate or authorize the location of a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, or land treatment facility over the Unconsolidated Quaternary Aquifer, or the recharge zone or streamflow source zone of such aquifer, in the Rockaway River Basin, New Jersey (as such aquifer and zones are described in the Federal Register, January 24, 1984, pages 2946-2948); or (2) place or authorize the placement of solid waste in a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, or land treatment facility over such aquifer or zone. This subsection may be enforced under sections 309(a) and (b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. For purposes of section 309(c) of such Act, a violation of this subsection shall be considered a violation of section 301 of such Act. (d) STUDY OF SHORTAGES OF SKILLED PERSONNEL.—The Comptroller General shall study the problem of shortages of skilled personnel in the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out response actions under CERCLA. In particular the Comptroller General shall study— (1) the types of skilled personnel needed for response actions for which there are shortages in the Environmental Protection Agency, (2) the extent of such shortages, (3) pay differential between the public and private sectors for the skilled positions involved in response actions, (4) the extent to which skilled personnel of Federal and State governments involved in response actions are leaving their positions for employment in the private sector, (5) the success of programs of the Department of Defense and the Office of Personnel Management in retaining skilled personnel, and (6) the types of training required to improve the skills of employees carrying out response actions. The Comptroller General shall complete the study required by this subsection and submit a report on the results thereof to Congress not later than July 1, 1987. (e) STATE REQUIREMENTS NOT APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN TRANS-

FERS.—NO State or local requirement shall apply to the transfer and disposal of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant from a facility at which a release or threatened release has occurred to a facility for which a final permit under section 3005(a) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is in effect if the following conditions apply—

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