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 PUBLIC LAW 96-482—OCT. 21, 1980

94 STAT. 2353

(e) Section 4009(d) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by Appropriation adding at the end thereof: "There are authorized to be appropriated authorization. 42 USC 6949. $10,000,000 for the fiscal year 1980 and $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1981 and 1982 to carry out this section.". (f)(1) Subtitle E of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by adding the following new section: AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

"SEC. 5006. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secre- 42 USC 6956. tary of Commerce $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1980, 1981, and 1982 to carry out the purposes of this subtitle.". (2) The table of contents for such subtitle E is amended by adding the following new item at the end thereof: "Sec. 5006. Authorization of appropriations.". ENERGY AND MATERIALS CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY

SEC. 32. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) significant savings could be realized by conserving materials in order to reduce the volume or quantity of material which ultimately becomes waste; (2) solid waste contains valuable energy and material resources which can be recovered and used thereby conserving increasingly scarce and expensive fossil fuels and virgin materials; (3) the recovery of energy and materials from municipal waste, and the conservation of energy and materials contributing to such waste streams, can have the effect of reducing the volume of the municipal waste stream and the burden of disposing of increasing volumes of solid waste; (4) the technology to conserve resources exists and is commercially feasible to apply; (5) the technology to recover energy and materials from solid waste is of demonstrated commercial feasibility; and (6) various communities throughout the nation have different needs and different potentials for conserving resources and for utilizing techniques for the recovery of energy and materials from waste, and Federal assistance in planning and implementing such energy and materials conservation and recovery programs should be available to all such communities on an equitable basis in relation to their needs and potential. (b) Section 4001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to objectives) is amended by inserting "including energy and materials which are recoverable from solid waste" after "valuable resources". (c) Section 4002(c) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to guidelines for State plans) is amended in paragraph (11) by inserting after "recovered material" the following: "and energy and energy resources recovered from solid waste as well as methods for conserving such materials and energy". (d)(1) Section 4003 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by inserting "negotiating and" after "from" in paragraph (5) thereof and by adding the following before the period at the end thereof: "or for conserving materials or energy by reducing the volume of waste". (2) Section 4003 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (relating to minimum requirements for State plans) is amended by inserting "(a) MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.—" after "4003" and by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof:

42 USC 694ia.

42 USC 6941. 42 USC 6942.

42 USC 6943. Ante, p. 2345.

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