Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1361

 PUBLIC LAW 94-580—OCT. 21, 1976

90 STAT. 2829

"Subtitle H—Research, Development, Demonstration, and Information "RESEARCH,

DEMONSTRATIONS, TRAINING, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

8001. (a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Administrator, alone or 42 USC 6981. after consultation with the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration, or the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, shall conduct, and encourage, cooperate with, and render financial and other assistance to appropriate public (whether Federal, State, interstate, or local) authorities, agencies, and institutions, private agencies and institutions, and individuals in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, public education programs, and studies relating to— "(1) any adverse health and welfare effects of the release into the environment of material present in solid waste, and methods to eliminate such effects; "(2) the operation and financing of solid waste disposal programs; "(3) the planning, implementation, and operation of resource recovery and resource conservation systems and hazardous waste management systems, including the marketing of recovered resources; "(4) the production of usable forms of recovered resources, including fuel, from solid waste; " (5) the reduction of the amount of such waste and \insalvageable waste materials; "(6) the development and application of new and improved methods of collecting and disposing of solid waste and processing and recovering materials and energy from solid wastes; " (7) the identification of solid waste components and potential materials and energy recoverable from such waste components; "(8) small scale and low technology solid waste management systems, including but not limited to, resource recovery source separation systems; "(9) methods to improve the performance characteristics of resources recovered from solid waste and the relationship of such performance characteristics to available and potentially available markets for such resources; "(10) improvements in land disposal practices for solid waste (including sludge) which may reduce the adverse environmental effects of such disposal and other aspects of solid waste disposal on land, including means for reducing the harmful environmental effects of earlier and existing landfills, means for restoring areas damaged by such earlier or existing landfills, means for rendering landfills safe for purposes of construction and other uses, and techniques of recovering materials and energy from landfills; "(11) methods for the sound disposal of, or recovery of resources, including energy, from, sludge (including sludge from pollution control and treatment facilities, coal slurry pipelines, and other sources); "(12) methods of hazardous waste management, including methods of rendering such waste environmentally safe; and "(13) any adverse effects on air quality (particularly with "SEC.

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