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

Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 863 — NAVAL VESSELS › § 8681

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Navy must make sure every contract for repair or maintenance of a naval ship (not new construction) has clear rules about hazardous waste. Contracts must say what kinds and how much hazardous waste the contractor must remove or might be made while working. The rules must let the contractor follow federal and state waste laws. Contracts must promise payment for the contractor’s waste-related work and must say whether the Navy or the contractor is responsible for removing, handling, storing, transporting, and disposing of the waste. Paperwork about the waste must show the right generator ID number: Navy’s if only the Navy made the waste, the contractor’s if only the contractor made it, or both if both made waste. Whether someone is a “generator” is decided the same way as under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq.) and its rules. The Navy must renegotiate a contract if a contractor finds different hazardous wastes than were listed and those wastes came from the ship or from government-supplied materials. The Navy must remove known hazardous wastes from a ship before sending it to a contractor’s facility when that is feasible. Nothing here changes the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and any terms that are defined in that Act have the same meanings here.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8681

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(a)Contractual Provisions.—
The Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that each contract entered into for work on a naval vessel (other than new construction) includes the following provisions:
(1)Identification of hazardous wastes.—
A provision in which the Navy identifies the types and amounts of hazardous wastes that are required to be removed by the contractor from the vessel, or that are expected to be generated, during the performance of work under the contract, with such identification by the Navy to be in a form sufficient to enable the contractor to comply with Federal and State laws and regulations on the removal, handling, storage, transportation, or disposal of hazardous waste.
(2)Compensation.—
A provision specifying that the contractor shall be compensated under the contract for work performed by the contractor for duties of the contractor specified under paragraph (3).
(3)Statement of work.—
A provision specifying the responsibilities of the Navy and of the contractor, respectively, for the removal (including the handling, storage, transportation, and disposal) of hazardous wastes.
(4)Accountability for hazardous wastes.—
(A)A provision specifying the following:
(i)In any case in which the Navy is the sole generator of hazardous waste that is removed, handled, stored, transported, or disposed of by the contractor in the performance of the contract, all contracts, manifests, invoices, and other documents related to the removal, handling, storage, transportation, or disposal of such hazardous waste shall bear a generator identification number issued to the Navy pursuant to applicable law.
(ii)In any case in which the contractor is the sole generator of hazardous waste that is removed, handled, stored, transported, or disposed of by the contractor in the performance of the contract, all contracts, manifests, invoices, and other documents related to the removal, handling, storage, transportation, or disposal of such hazardous waste shall bear a generator identification number issued to the contractor pursuant to applicable law.
(iii)In any case in which both the Navy and the contractor are generators of hazardous waste that is removed, handled, stored, transported, or disposed of by the contractor in the performance of the contract, all contracts, manifests, invoices, and other documents related to the removal, handling, storage, transportation, or disposal of such hazardous waste shall bear both a generator identification number issued to the Navy and a generator identification number issued to the contractor pursuant to applicable law.
(B)A determination under this paragraph of whether the Navy is a generator, a contractor is a generator, or both the Navy and a contractor are generators, shall be made in the same manner provided under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6921 et seq.) and regulations promulgated under that subtitle.
(b)Renegotiation of Contract.—
The Secretary of the Navy shall renegotiate a contract described in subsection (a) if—
(1)the contractor, during the performance of work under the contract, discovers hazardous wastes different in type or amount from those identified in the contract; and
(2)those hazardous wastes originated on, or resulted from material furnished by the Government for, the naval vessel on which the work is being performed.
(c)Removal of Wastes.—
The Secretary of the Navy shall remove known hazardous wastes from a vessel before the vessel’s arrival at a contractor’s facility for performance of a contract, to the extent such removal is feasible.
(d)Relationship to Solid Waste Disposal Act.—
Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering or otherwise affecting those provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) that relate to generators of hazardous waste. For purposes of this section, any term used in this section for which a definition is provided by the Solid Waste Disposal Act (or regulations promulgated pursuant to such Act) has the meaning provided by that Act or regulations.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Solid Waste Disposal Act, referred to in subsecs. (a)(4)(B) and (d), is title II of Pub. L. 89–272, Oct. 20, 1965, 79 Stat. 997, as amended generally by Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2795, which is classified generally to chapter 82 (§ 6901 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 6921 et seq.) of chapter 82 of Title 42. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 6901 of Title 42 and Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 8681 was renumbered section 9251 of this title. Another prior section 8681, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 534, prescribed service to be listed in official Air Force Register, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 85–861, § 36B(28), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1571.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7311 of this title as this section. 1989—Pub. L. 101–189 amended section generally, substituting subsecs. (a) to (d) for former subsecs. (a) relating to contractual provisions, and (b) relating to renegotiation of contract.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1989 Amendment Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XVI, § 1611(b), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1601, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply with respect to any contract for work on a naval vessel (other than new

Construction

) entered into after the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1989].”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8681

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110