United States Code/Title 42/Chapter 82

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare — Solid Waste Disposal

This title (hereinafter in this title referred to as ‘‘this Act’’), together with the following table of contents, may be cited as the ‘‘Solid Waste Disposal Act’’:

Subtitle A—General Provisions
 * § 6901. Congressional findings.
 * § 6902. Objectives.
 * § 6903. Definitions.
 * § 6904. Governmental cooperation.
 * § 6905. Application of Act and integration with other Acts.
 * § 6906. Financial disclosure.
 * § 6907. Solid waste management information and guidelines.

Subtitle B—Office of Solid Waste; Authorities of the Administrator
 * § 6911. Office of Solid Waste and Interagency Coordinating Committee.
 * § 6912. Authorities of Administrator.
 * § 6913. Resource recovery and conservation panels.
 * § 6914. Grants for discarded tire disposal.
 * § 6914a. Labeling of certain oil.
 * § 6915. Annual report.
 * § 6916. General authorization.

Subtitle C—Hazardous Waste Management
 * § 6921. Identification and listing of hazardous waste.
 * § 6922. Standards applicable to generators of hazardous waste.
 * § 6923. Standards applicable to transporters of hazardous waste.
 * § 6924. Standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
 * § 6925. Permits for treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste.
 * § 6926. Authorized State hazardous waste programs.
 * § 6927. Inspections.
 * § 6928. Federal enforcement.
 * § 6929. Retention of State authority.
 * § 6930. Effective date.
 * § 6931. Authorization of assistance to States.
 * § 6933. Hazardous waste site inventory.
 * § 6934. Monitoring, analysis, and testing.
 * § 6935. Restrictions on recycled oil.
 * § 6936. Expansion during interim status.
 * § 6937. Inventory of Federal Agency hazardous waste facilities.
 * § 6938. Export of hazardous waste.
 * § 6939. Domestic sewage.
 * § 6939a. Exposure information and health assessments.
 * § 6939b. Interim control of hazardous waste injection.
 * § 6939c. Mixed waste inventory reports and plan.
 * § 6939d. Public vessels.
 * § 6939e. Federally owned treatment works.

Subtitle D—State or Regional Solid Waste Plans
 * § 6941. Objectives of subtitle.
 * § 6942. Federal guidelines for plans.
 * § 6943. Minimum requirements for approval of plans.
 * § 6944. Criteria for sanitary landfills; sanitary landfills required for all disposal.
 * § 6945. Upgrading of open dumps.
 * § 6946. Procedure for development and implementation of State plan.
 * § 6947. Approval of State plan; Federal assistance.
 * § 6948. Federal assistance.
 * § 6949. Rural communities assistance.
 * § 6949a. Adequacy of certain guidelines and criteria.

Subtitle E—Duties of the Secretary of Commerce in Resource and Recovery
 * § 6951. Functions.
 * § 6952. Development of specifications for secondary materials.
 * § 6953. Development of markets for recovered materials.
 * § 6954. Technology promotion.
 * § 6955. Nondiscrimination requirement.
 * § 6956. Authorization of appropriations.

Subtitle F—Federal Responsibilities
 * § 6961. Application of Federal, State, and local law to Federal facilities.
 * § 6962. Federal procurement.
 * § 6963. Cooperation with Environmental Protection Agency.
 * § 6964. Applicability of solid waste disposal guidelines to executive agencies.

Subtitle G—Miscellaneous Provisions
 * § 6971. Employee protection.
 * § 6972. Citizen suits.
 * § 6973. Imminent hazard.
 * § 6974. Petition for regulations; public participation.
 * § 6975. Separability.
 * § 6976. Judicial review.
 * § 6977. Grants or contracts for training projects.
 * § 6978. Payments.
 * § 6979. Labor standards.
 * § 6979b. Law enforcement authority.

Subtitle H—Research, Development, Demonstration, and Information
 * § 6981. Research, demonstrations, training, and other activities.
 * § 6982. Special studies; plans for research, development, and demonstrations.
 * § 6983. Coordination, collection, and dissemination of information.
 * § 6984. Full-scale demonstration facilities.
 * § 6985. Special study and demonstration projects on recovery of useful energy and materials.
 * § 6986. Grants for resource recovery systems and improved solid waste disposal facilities.
 * § 6987. Authorization of appropriations.

Subtitle I—Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks
 * § 6991. Definitions.
 * § 6991a. Notification.
 * § 6991b. Release detection, prevention, and correction regulations.
 * § 6991c. Approval of State programs.
 * § 6991d. Inspections, monitoring, and testing.
 * § 6991e. Federal enforcement.
 * § 6991f. Federal facilities.
 * § 6991g. State authority.
 * § 6991h. Study of underground storage tanks.
 * § 6991i. Operator training
 * § 6991j. Use of funds for release prevention and compliance
 * § 6991k. Delivery prohibition
 * § 6991l. Tanks on tribal lands
 * § 6991m. Authorization of appropriations.

Subtitle J—Demonstration Medical Waste Tracking Program
 * § 6992. Scope of demonstration program for medical waste.
 * § 6992a. Listing of medical wastes.
 * § 6992b. Tracking of medical waste.
 * § 6992c. Inspections.
 * § 6992d. Enforcement.
 * § 6992e. Federal facilities.
 * § 6992f. Relationship to State law.
 * § 6992h. Health impact report.
 * § 6992i. General provisions.
 * § 6992j. Effective date.
 * § 6992k. Authorization of appropriations.