§8681 Repair or Maintenance of Naval Vessels: Handling of Hazardous Waste

Summary

Require the Navy to put specific rules into every repair or maintenance contract for a naval ship (not for new ships). The contract must list the kinds and amounts of hazardous waste the contractor must remove or might create, and it must give enough detail for the contractor to follow federal and state rules for handling, storing, moving, and disposing of the waste. The contractor must be paid for hazardous-waste work, and the contract must say which responsibilities belong to the Navy and which belong to the contractor. Paperwork like manifests and invoices must show the right generator identification number: the Navy’s ID if the Navy alone generated the waste, the contractor’s ID if the contractor alone generated it, or both IDs if both did. Whether the Navy or the contractor is a “generator” is decided under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq.) and its rules. If the contractor finds different hazardous waste during the work that came from the ship or from government-supplied material, the Navy must renegotiate the contract. The Navy must remove known hazardous waste from a ship before it goes to the contractor when that is feasible. Nothing here changes the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), and terms used have the same meanings as in that Act and its rules.