§6904 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Allows states to have interstate agencies or regions do the work the states would do, if the states set them up and the Administrator approves them. Any action a Governor must take about a regional matter must be taken by each state’s Governor for the part of the region inside that state. Congress permits two or more states to make agreements or compacts, as long as they don’t conflict with U.S. law or treaties, to cooperate on managing solid or hazardous waste and to create agencies to carry out those agreements.

Title 42, §6904

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(a)The provisions of this chapter to be carried out by States may be carried out by interstate agencies and provisions applicable to States may apply to interstate regions where such agencies and regions have been established by the respective States and approved by the Administrator. In any such case, action required to be taken by the Governor of a State, respecting regional designation shall be required to be taken by the Governor of each of the respective States with respect to so much of the interstate region as is within the jurisdiction of that State.

(b)The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more States to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in conflict with any law or treaty of the United States, for—

(1)cooperative effort and mutual assistance for the management of solid waste or hazardous waste (or both) and the enforcement of their respective laws relating thereto, and

(2)the establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making effective such agreements or compacts.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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.

§6904 Governmental cooperation