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 98 STAT. 3224 42 USC 6944, 42 USC 6945

Post, p. 3289.

PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984 solid waste management facilities with the criteria promulgated under section 4004(a) and section 1008(a)(3) and with the provisions °^ section 4005. To the extent practicable, such programs shall require such compliance not later than thirty-six months after the date of the enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984.". (1) For provisions authorizing the appropriation of funds for the National Ground Water Commission, see section 704 of this Act. TITLE I—PROVISIONS RELATING PRIMARILY TO SUBTITLES A AND B OF THE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL ACT FINDINGS AND OBJECTIVES OF SOUD WASTE DISPOSAL ACT

42 USC 6901.

42 USC 6902.

Congress.

SEC. 101. (a) Section 1002(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by— (1) striking out paragraph (5) and substituting: "(5) the placement of inadequate controls on hazardous waste management will result in substantial risks to human health and the environment; "(6) if hazardous waste management is improperly performed in the first instance, corrective action is likely to be expensive, complex, and time consuming; "(7) certain classes of land disposal facilities are not capable of assuring long-term containment of certain hazardous wastes, and to avoid substantial risk to human health and the environment, reliance on land disposal should be minimized or eliminated, and land disposal, particularly landfill and surface impoundment, should be the leeist favored method for managing hazardous wastes; and"; (2) redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (8); and (3) striking out the semicolon in redesignated paragraph (8) and substituting a period. (b) Section 1003 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by— (1) adding "AND NATIONAL POLICY" to the title, inserting "(a) OBJECTIVES.—" after "SEC. 1003.", and adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: "(b) NATIONAL PoLiCY.—The Congress hereby declares it to be the national policy of the United States that, wherever feasible, the generation of hazardous waste is to be reduced or eliminated as expeditiously as possible. Waste that is nevertheless generated should be treated, stored, or disposed of so as to minimize the present and future threat to human health and the environment."; and (2) striking out paragraph (4) of subsection (a) (as designated by paragraph (1) of this subsection), substituting the following new paragraphs in such subsection (a), and redesignating paragraphs (5) through (8) thereof as paragraphs (8) through (11): "(4) assuring that hazardous waste management practices are conducted in a manner which protects human health and the environment; "(5) requiring that hazardous waste be properly managed in the first instance thereby reducing the need for corrective action at a future date; "(6) minimizing the generation of hazardous waste and the land disposal of hazardous waste by encouraging process substi-

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