§6911 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Creates an Office of Solid Waste inside the Environmental Protection Agency. The Office must be led by an Assistant Administrator. Most duties of the EPA Administrator under this law, except research and development work, must be carried out through that Office. Sets up an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Activities to coordinate federal work on saving and recovering resources from solid waste. This covers research, development, and demonstration projects on recovering energy or materials from solid waste, and technical or financial help for state or local planning or projects. The EPA Administrator or someone they choose will chair the Committee. Members include the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and the Treasury, plus any other federal agencies the Administrator says are involved. The Committee must oversee the May 1979 Memorandum of Understanding between EPA and DOE on energy recovery from municipal solid waste, the May 30, 1978 Interagency Agreement between Commerce and EPA on implementing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and any later related federal agreements.

Title 42, §6911

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(a)The Administrator shall establish within the Environmental Protection Agency an Office of Solid Waste (hereinafter referred to as the “Office”) to be headed by an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The duties and responsibilities (other than duties and responsibilities relating to research and development) of the Administrator under this chapter (as modified by applicable reorganization plans) shall be carried out through the Office.

(b)(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 chapter or any other Act. For 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 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 [42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.]; and

(C)any subsequent agreements between these agencies or other Federal agencies which address Federal resource recovery or conservation activities.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2)(B), is Pub. L. 94–580, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2796, which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 6901 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 6901 of this title and Tables. Codification Subsection (b)(3) of this section, which required the Interagency Coordinating Committee to submit to Congress on March 1 of each year, a five-year action plan for Federal resource conservation or recovery activities, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, the 2nd item on page 175 of House Document No. 103–7.

Amendments

1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–510 substituted reference to Assistant Administrator for reference to Deputy Assistant Administrator. Pub. L. 96–482 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1980 Amendment 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].”

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.

§6911 Office of Solid Waste and Interagency Coordinating Committee