Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 3.djvu/893

 PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984

98 STAT. 3265

"(4) available alternatives for preventing or controlling such releases. The Administrator may utilize the authority of sections 3007 and 3013 for the purpose of completing such report. "(d) APPLICATION OF SECTION 3010 AND SECTION 3007.—The provisions of sections 3007 and 3010 shall apply to solid or dissolved materials in domestic sewage to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply to hazardous waste.". (c) The table of contents for such subtitle C is amended by adding the following new item at the end thereof:

42 USC 6927, ^o^rTor. coon gggV

"Sec. 3018. Domestic sewage.". EXPOSURE INFORMATION AND HEALTH ASSESSMENTS

SEC. 247. (a) Subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by adding the following new section after section 3018: "EXPOSURE INFORMATION AND HEALTH ASSESSMENTS "SEC. 3019. (a) EXPOSURE INFORMATION.—Beginning on the date 42 USC 6939a. nine months after the enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, each application for a final determination regarding a permit under section 3005(c) for a landfill or surface Ante, pp. 3241, impoundment shall be accompanied by information reasonably as- 3242. certainable by the owner or operator on the potential for the public to be exposed to hazardous wastes or hazardous constituents through releases related to the unit. At a minimum, such information must address: "(1) reasonably foreseeable potential releases from both normal operations and accidents at the unit, including releases associated with transportation to or from the unit; "(2) the potential pathways of human exposure to hazardous wastes or constituents resulting from the releases described under paragraph (1); and "(3) the potential magnitude and nature of the human exposure resulting from such releases. The owner or operator of a landfill or surface impoundment for which an application for such a final determination under section 3005(c) has been submitted prior to the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 shall submit the information required by this subsection to the Administrator (or the State, in the case of a State with an authorized program) no later than the date nine months after such date of enactment.

"(b) HEALTH ASSESSMENTS.—(1) The Administrator (or the State, in

the case of a State with an authorized program) shall make the information required by subsection (a), together with other relevant information, available to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry established by section 104(i) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980. "(2) Whenever in the judgment of the Administrator, or the State (in the case of a State with an authorized program), a landfill or a surface impoundment poses a substantial potential risk to human health, due to the existence of releases of hazardous constituents, the magnitude of contamination with hazardous constituents virhich may be the result of a release, or the magnitude of the population exposed to such release or contamination, the Administrator or the State (with the concurrence of the Administrator) may request the

42 USC 9604.

�