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§6930 Effective Date

Title 42 › CHAPTER 82 — SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL › SUBCHAPTER III — HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT › § 6930

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

People who make, move, or run a place that treats, stores, or disposes of a newly identified or listed hazardous waste must tell the EPA or an authorized state where the activity is and give a short description within 90 days after the rule is made. By 15 months after November 8, 1984, owners or operators of facilities that make fuel from hazardous waste or used oil, facilities (not single- or two-family homes) that burn those fuels to recover energy, and people who sell or distribute those fuels had to file similar notices with the EPA and the state. The notice must say where the facility is, what hazardous waste is involved, and, for fuel or energy facilities, what they do there. A commercial chemical turned into or used as fuel is included. The EPA can decide some small facilities do not need to file. The EPA can also require a notice when it later adds new wastes, but only one notice per substance is needed. No listed waste may be moved, treated, stored, or disposed of until the required notice is filed. Regulations about generating, moving, treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste take effect six months after they are issued (or six months after they are changed). The EPA can make them take effect sooner or immediately if no six-month delay is needed, there is an emergency, or the EPA gives another published reason.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6930

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

(a)Preliminary notification
Not later than ninety days after promulgation of regulations under section 6921 of this title identifying by its characteristics or listing any substance as hazardous waste subject to this subchapter, any person generating or transporting such substance or owning or operating a facility for treatment, storage, or disposal of such substance shall file with the Administrator (or with States having authorized hazardous waste permit programs under section 6926 of this title) a notification stating the location and general description of such activity and the identified or listed hazardous wastes handled by such person. Not later than fifteen months after November 8, 1984—
(1)the owner or operator of any facility which produces a fuel (A) from any hazardous waste identified or listed under section 6921 of this title, (B) from such hazardous waste identified or listed under section 6921 of this title and any other material, (C) from used oil, or (D) from used oil and any other material;
(2)the owner or operator of any facility (other than a single- or two-family residence) which burns for purposes of energy recovery any fuel produced as provided in paragraph (1) or any fuel which otherwise contains used oil or any hazardous waste identified or listed under section 6921 of this title; and
(3)any person who distributes or markets any fuel which is produced as provided in paragraph (1) or any fuel which otherwise contains used oil or any hazardous waste identified or listed under section 6921 of this title
shall file with the Administrator (and with the State in the case of a State with an authorized hazardous waste program) a notification stating the location and general description of the facility, together with a description of the identified or listed hazardous waste involved and, in the case of a facility referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), a description of the production or energy recovery activity carried out at the facility and such other information as the Administrator deems necessary. For purposes of the preceding provisions, the term “hazardous waste listed under section 6921 of this title” also includes any commercial chemical product which is listed under section 6921 of this title and which, in lieu of its original intended use, is (i) produced for use as (or as a component of) a fuel, (ii) distributed for use as a fuel, or (iii) burned as a fuel. Notification shall not be required under the second sentence of this subsection in the case of facilities (such as residential boilers) where the Administrator determines that such notification is not necessary in order for the Administrator to obtain sufficient information respecting current practices of facilities using hazardous waste for energy recovery. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect or impair the provisions of section 6921(b)(3) of this title. Nothing in this subsection shall affect regulatory determinations under section 6935 of this title. In revising any regulation under section 6921 of this title identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as hazardous waste subject to this subchapter, the Administrator may require any person referred to in the preceding provisions to file with the Administrator (or with States having authorized hazardous waste permit programs under section 6926 of this title) the notification described in the preceding provisions. Not more than one such notification shall be required to be filed with respect to the same substance. No identified or listed hazardous waste subject to this subchapter may be transported, treated, stored, or disposed of unless notification has been given as required under this subsection.
(b)Effective date of regulation
The regulations under this subchapter respecting requirements applicable to the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste (including requirements respecting permits for such treatment, storage, or disposal) shall take effect on the date six months after the date of promulgation thereof (or six months after the date of revision in the case of any regulation which is revised after the date required for promulgation thereof). At the time a regulation is promulgated, the Administrator may provide for a shorter period prior to the effective date, or an immediate effective date for: (1)
(2)a regulation which responds to an emergency situation; or
(3)other good cause found and published with the regulation.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–616, § 204(a), inserted provisions after first sentence relating to burning and blending of hazardous wastes and substituted “the preceding provisions” for “the preceding sentence” in three places. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98–616, § 234, inserted provision that at the time a regulation is promulgated, the Administrator may provide for a shorter period prior to the

Effective Date

, or an immediate

Effective Date

for a regulation with which the Administrator finds the regulated community does not need six months to come into compliance, a regulation which responds to an emergency situation, or other good cause found and published with the regulation. 1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–482 struck out “or revision” after “after promulgation or revision of

Regulations

” and inserted provision for filing of notification when revising any regulation identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste or listing any additional substance as hazardous waste subject to this subchapter.

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. § 6930

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110