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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 55 — Save Our Seas 2.0

§ 4281. Strategy for improving post-consumer materials management and water management

Statutory text

(a)

In general

Not later than 1 year after , the EPA Administrator shall, in consultation with stakeholders, develop a strategy to improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure for the purpose of reducing plastic waste and other post-consumer materials in waterways and oceans.

(b)

Release

On development of the strategy under subsection (a), the EPA Administrator shall—

(1)

distribute the strategy to States; and

(2)

make the strategy publicly available, including for use by—

(A)

for-profit private entities involved in post-consumer materials management; and

(B)

other nongovernmental entities.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Save Our Seas 2.0 Act

    Pub. L. 116–224 title III § 301 · 134 Stat. 1072

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 4281

    (Pub. L. 116–224, title III, § 301, Dec. 18, 2020, 134 Stat. 1092.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 116–224, title III, § 301, Dec. 18, 2020, 134 Stat. 1092.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 301. STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING POST-CONSUMER MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND WATER MANAGEMENT. (a) In General.— Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the EPA Administrator shall, in consultation with stakeholders, develop a strategy to improve post-consumer materials management and infrastructure for the purpose of reducing plastic waste and other post-consumer materials in waterways and oceans. (b) Release.— On development of the strategy under subsection (a), the EPA Administrator shall— (1) distribute the strategy to States; and (2) make the strategy publicly available, including for use by— (A) for-profit private entities involved in post-consumer materials management; and (B) other nongovernmental entities.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 116–224, title III, § 301, , 134 Stat. 1092.)

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