42 U.S.C. § 6904: Governmental cooperation

Summary

States can join together and use interstate agencies or regions to carry out their duties under the law if the states create those agencies and the Administrator approves them. Each governor must act for the part of the interstate region that lies inside that governor’s state. Congress allows two or more states to make agreements to cooperate on managing solid waste, hazardous waste, or both, and to create agencies to carry out those agreements. Any such agreement only becomes binding if every participating state agrees and it is approved by the Administrator and by Congress.

Title 42, §6904

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Interstate cooperation

The provisions of this chapter to be carried out by States may be carried out by interstate agencies and provisions applicable to States may apply to interstate regions where such agencies and regions have been established by the respective States and approved by the Administrator. In any such case, action required to be taken by the Governor of a State, respecting regional designation shall be required to be taken by the Governor of each of the respective States with respect to so much of the interstate region as is within the jurisdiction of that State.

(b)Consent of Congress to compacts

The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more States to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in conflict with any law or treaty of the United States, for— (1)

(2)the establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem desirable for making effective such agreements or compacts.

No such agreement or compact shall be binding or obligatory upon any State a party thereto unless it is agreed upon by all parties to the agreement and until it has been approved by the Administrator and the Congress.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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.

§6904 Governmental Cooperation