§ 6911. Office of Solid Waste and Interagency Coordinating Committee

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. 1976

   Pub. L. 89–272 title II § 2001 · 79 Stat. 992

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6911

   Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2001, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2804

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2001, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2804

2. 1980

   Solid Waste Disposal Act Amendments of 1980

   Pub. L. 96–482 § 4(c) · 94 Stat. 2334

   1. Amended · 42 U.S.C. § 6911(a)

      Pub. L. 96–482 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

   2. Added · 42 U.S.C. § 6911(a)

      Pub. L. 96–482 added subsec. (b)

   Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 96–482 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (c) Section 2001 of such Act is amended by inserting “(a) Office of Establishment. 42 USC 6911. Solid Waste.—” after “2001.” and by inserting a new subsection (b) as follows at the end thereof: “(b) Interagency Coordinating Committee.— (1) There is hereby established an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Activities which shall have the responsibility for coordinating all activities dealing with resource conservation and recovery from solid waste carried out by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and all other Federal agencies which conduct such activities pursuant to this or any other Act. For “Resource conservation and recovery activities.” purposes of this subsection, the term ‘resource conservation and recovery activities’ shall include, but not be limited to, all research, development and demonstration projects on resource conservation or energy, or material, recovery from solid waste, and all technical or financial assistance for State or local planning for, or implementation of, projects related to resource conservation or energy or material, recovery from solid waste. The Committee shall be chaired by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or such person as the Administrator may designate. Members of the Committee shall include representatives of the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Treasury, and each other Federal agency which the Administrator determines to have programs or responsibilities affecting resource conservation or recovery. “(2) The Interagency Coordinating Committee shall include oversight Oversight functions. of the implementation of “(A) the May 1979 Memorandum of Understanding on Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste between the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy; “(B) the May 30, 1978, Interagency Agreement between the Department of Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency on the Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; and “(C) any subsequent agreements between these agencies or other Federal agencies which address Federal resource recovery or conservation activities. “(3) The Interagency Coordinating Committee shall submit to the Five-year action plan, submittal to Congress. Congress by March 1, 1981, and on March 1 each year thereafter, a five-year action plan for Federal resource conservation or recovery activities which shall identify means and propose programs to encourage resource conservation or material and energy recovery and increase private and municipal investment in resource conservation or recovery systems, especially those which provide for material conservation or recovery as well as energy conservation or recovery. Such plan shall describe, at a minimum, a coordinated and nonduplicatory plan for resource recovery and conservation activities for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and all other Federal agencies which conduct such activities.”.

3. 1980

   Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

   Pub. L. 96–510 title III § 307(a) · 94 Stat. 2767

   Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 6911(a)

   Pub. L. 96–510 substituted reference to Assistant Administrator for reference to Deputy Assistant Administrator

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–510 substituted reference to Assistant Administrator for reference to Deputy Assistant Administrator.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Section 2001 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is 42 USC 6911. amended by striking out “a Deputy Assistant” and inserting in lieu thereof “an Assistant”.

   Effective date note
   Pub. L. 96–510, title III, § 307(c), Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2810, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall become effective ninety days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 11, 1980].”

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