§13107 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The EPA Administrator must give Congress a report within eighteen months after November 5, 1990, and then every two years after that. The report must explain what the agency did to carry out the plan to reduce toxic chemical waste, show the results, assess how well the clearinghouse and grant program worked, and look for gaps and duplicate information in federal environmental data. Each report after the first must also do a set of studies and evaluations. It must analyze data by industry for at least five SIC codes (starting with the biggest waste generators and covering five new codes each report until all are done). It must check whether the data really measure source reduction and business adoption. It must identify regulatory and nonregulatory barriers and chances to use existing programs, list industries and pollutants needing priority help, recommend incentives for investment and R&D, set R&D priorities, evaluate cost and technical feasibility by industry and process (and note industries with big barriers and why), and suggest ways to coordinate, streamline, and improve public access to federal environmental data while noting data gaps and duplication.

Title 42, §13107

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(a)The Administrator shall provide Congress with a report within eighteen months after November 5, 1990, and biennially thereafter, containing a detailed description of the actions taken to implement the strategy to promote source reduction developed under section 13103(b) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title and of the results of such actions. The report shall include an assessment of the effectiveness of the clearinghouse and grant program established under this chapter in promoting the goals of the strategy, and shall evaluate data gaps and data duplication with respect to data collected under Federal environmental statutes.

(b)Each biennial report submitted under subsection (a) after the first report shall contain each of the following:

(1)An analysis of the data collected under section 13106 of this title on an industry-by-industry basis for not less than five SIC codes or other categories as the Administrator deems appropriate. The analysis shall begin with those SIC codes or other categories of facilities which generate the largest quantities of toxic chemical waste. The analysis shall include an evaluation of trends in source reduction by industry, firm size, production, or other useful means. Each such subsequent report shall cover five SIC codes or other categories which were not covered in a prior report until all SIC codes or other categories have been covered.

(2)An analysis of the usefulness and validity of the data collected under section 13106 of this title for measuring trends in source reduction and the adoption of source reduction by business.

(3)Identification of regulatory and nonregulatory barriers to source reduction, and of opportunities for using existing regulatory programs, and incentives and disincentives to promote and assist source reduction.

(4)Identification of industries and pollutants that require priority assistance in multi-media source reduction 22 So in original. Probably should be followed by a period.

(5)Recommendations as to incentives needed to encourage investment and research and development in source reduction.

(6)Identification of opportunities and development of priorities for research and development in source reduction methods and techniques.

(7)An evaluation of the cost and technical feasibility, by industry and processes, of source reduction opportunities and current activities and an identification of any industries for which there are significant barriers to source reduction with an analysis of the basis of this identification.

(8)An evaluation of methods of coordinating, streamlining, and improving public access to data collected under Federal environmental statutes.

(9)An evaluation of data gaps and data duplication with respect to data collected under Federal environmental statutes.

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section 13103(b) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 4(b)” and was translated as reading “section 6604(b)”, meaning section 6604(b) of Pub. L. 101–508, because Pub. L. 101–508 has no section 4 but section 6604(b) of Pub. L. 101–508 relates to development of a strategy to promote source reduction.

§13107 Epa Report

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