Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal
§ 6944. Criteria for sanitary landfills; sanitary landfills required for all disposal
Statutory text
Criteria for sanitary landfills
Not later than one year after , after consultation with the States, and after notice and public hearings, the Administrator shall promulgate regulations containing criteria for determining which facilities shall be classified as sanitary landfills and which shall be classified as open dumps within the meaning of this chapter. At a minimum, such criteria shall provide that a facility may be classified as a sanitary landfill and not an open dump only if there is no reasonable probability of adverse effects on health or the environment from disposal of solid waste at such facility. Such regulations may provide for the classification of the types of sanitary landfills.
Disposal required to be in sanitary landfills, etc.
For purposes of complying with section 6943(2) 1 of this title each State plan shall prohibit the establishment of open dumps and contain a requirement that disposal of all solid waste within the State shall be in compliance with such section 6943(2) 1 of this title.
Effective date
The prohibition contained in subsection (b) shall take effect on the date six months after the date of promulgation of regulations under subsection (a).
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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.
Pub. L. 89–272 title II § 4004 · 79 Stat. 992
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 6944
Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 4004, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2815
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 4004, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2815The Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984
Pub. L. 98–616 title III § 302(b) · 98 Stat. 3221
Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 6944(c)
Pub. L. 98–616 struck out “or on the date of approval of the State plan, whichever is later” at end
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98–616 struck out “or on the date of approval of the State plan, whichever is later” at end.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Section 4004(c) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by striking all after “subsection (a)” through “later”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 6943(2) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was redesignated section 6943(a)(2) of this title by Pub. L. 96–463, § 5(b), , 94 Stat. 2056, and Pub. L. 96–482, § 32(d)(2), , 94 Stat. 2353.
Amendments
1984—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98–616 struck out “or on the date of approval of the State plan, whichever is later” at end.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Administrator or other official of Environmental Protection Agency under this chapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 6903 of this title.
Credits
1976–1984 · 2 acts
- 1976Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 4004, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, , 90 Stat. 2815
- 1984amended Pub. L. 98–616, title III, § 302(b), , 98 Stat. 3268.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 4004, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, , 90 Stat. 2815; amended Pub. L. 98–616, title III, § 302(b), , 98 Stat. 3268.)