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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal

§ 6917. Office of Ombudsman

Statutory text

(a)

Establishment; functions

The Administrator shall establish an Office of Ombudsman, to be directed by an Ombudsman. It shall be the function of the Office of Ombudsman to receive individual complaints, grievances, requests for information submitted by any person with respect to any program or requirement under this chapter.

(b)

Authority to render assistance

The Ombudsman shall render assistance with respect to the complaints, grievances, and requests submitted to the Office of Ombudsman, and shall make appropriate recommendations to the Administrator.

(c)

Effect on procedures for grievances, appeals, or administrative matters

The establishment of the Office of Ombudsman shall not affect any procedures for grievances, appeals, or administrative matters in any other provision of this chapter, any other provision of law, or any Federal regulation.

(d)

Termination

The Office of the Ombudsman shall cease to exist 4 years after .

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. Pub. L. 89–272 title II § 2008 · 79 Stat. 992

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6917

    (Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2008, as added Pub. L. 98–616, title I, § 103(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3225.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2008, as added Pub. L. 98–616, title I, § 103(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3225.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2008, as added Pub. L. 98–616, title I, § 103(a), , 98 Stat. 3225.)

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