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 90 STAT. 2840

PUBLIC LAW 94-580—OCT. 21, 1976 SOLID WASTE CLEANUP ON FEDERAL LANDS I N ALASKA

Study.

42 USC 6981 note.

Report to congressional committees.

Llangollen Undfili, Del., leachate control research program. 42 USC 6981 note. eooperation with EPA.

42 USC 6901 note.

SEC. 3. (a) The President shall direct such executive departments or agencies as he may deem appropriate to conduct a studv, in consultation with representatives of the State of Alaska and the appropriate Native organizations, to determine the best overall procedures for removing existing solid waste on Federal lands in Alaska. Such study shall include, out shall not be limited to, a consideration of— (1) alternative procedures for removing the solid waste in an environmentally safe manner, and (2) the estimated costs of removing the solid waste. (b) The President shall submit a report of the results together with appropriate supportini^ data and such recommendations as he deems desirable to the Committee on Public Works of the Senate and to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives not later than one year after the enactment of the Solid Waste Utilization Act of 1976. The President shall also submit, within six months after the study has been submitted to the committees, recommended administrative actions, procedures, and needed legislation to implement such procedures and the recommendations of the study. SEC. 4. (a) In order to demonstrate effective means of dealing with contamination of public water supplies by leachate from abandoned or other landfills, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is authorized to provide technical and financial assistance for a research program to control leachate from the Llangollen Landfill in New Castle County Delaware. (b) The research program authorized by this section shall be designed by the New Castle County area wide waste treatment management program, in cooperation with the Enviroimiental Protection Agency, to develop methods for controlling leachate contamination from abandoned and other landfills that may be applied at the Llangollen Landfill and at other landfills throughout the Nation. Such research program shall investigate all alternative solutions or corrective actions, including— (1) hydrogeologic isolation of the landfill combined with the collection and treatment of leachate; (2) excavation of the refuse, followed by some type of incineration; (3) excavation and transportation of the refuse to another landfill; and (4) collection and treatment of contaminated leachate or ground water. Such research program shall consider the economic, social, and environmental consequences of each such alternative. (c) The Admmistrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall make available personnel of the Agency, including those of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Research Laboratory (Cincinnati, Ohio), and shall arrange for other Federal personnel to be made available, to provide technical assistance and aid in such research. The Administrator may provide up to $250,000, of the sums appropriated under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, to the New Castle County areawide waste treatment management program to conduct such research, including obtaining consultant services.

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