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§6977 Grants or contracts for training projects

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 82— - SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 6977

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator can give grants and sign contracts with eligible organizations. Eligible organizations include state or interstate agencies, cities, schools, and any group that can run a funded project. Grants can pay all or part of projects that train people for jobs that design, run, supervise, or maintain solid waste management and resource recovery equipment and facilities, or that train the instructors and supervisors for those jobs. Organizations must apply when and how the Administrator requires. Applications must include the same reporting rules and access to reports and records that section 3254a(b)(4) and (5) required as they were before October 21, 1976.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6977

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(a)The Administrator is authorized to make grants to, and contracts with any eligible organization. For purposes of this section the term “eligible organization” means a State or interstate agency, a municipality, educational institution, and any other organization which is capable of effectively carrying out a project which may be funded by grant under subsection (b) of this section.
(b)(1)Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), grants or contracts may be made to pay all or a part of the costs, as may be determined by the Administrator, of any project operated or to be operated by an eligible organization, which is designed—
(A)to develop, expand, or carry out a program (which may combine training, education, and employment) for training persons for occupations involving the management, supervision, design, operation, or maintenance of solid waste management and resource recovery equipment and facilities; or
(B)to train instructors and supervisory personnel to train or supervise persons in occupations involving the design, operation, and maintenance of solid waste management and resource recovery equipment and facilities.
(2)A grant or contract authorized by paragraph (1) of this subsection may be made only upon application to the Administrator at such time or times and containing such information as he may prescribe, except that no such application shall be approved unless it provides for the same procedures and reports (and access to such reports and to other records) as required by section 3254a(b)(4) and (5) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title (as in effect before October 21, 1976) with respect to applications made under such section (as in effect before October 21, 1976).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 3254a(b)(4) and (5) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), was in the original “section 207(b)(4) and (5)”, meaning section 207(b)(4) and (5) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, which was omitted in the general revision of the Solid Waste Disposal Act by Pub. L. 94–580 on Oct. 21, 1976.

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 3254d of this title, prior to the general amendment of the Solid Waste Disposal Act by Pub. L. 94–580.

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–362 struck out heading and text of subsec. (c) which related to Administrator’s study and report on State and local training needs and obstacles to employment and occupational advancement in solid waste management and resource recovery field. 1978—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 95–609, § 7(r)(1), (2), substituted “management” for “disposal” in two places, and “resource” for “resources”. Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 95–609, § 7(r)(3), substituted “management” for “disposal”.

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.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 6977

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73