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42 U.S.C. § 6984 — Full-scale demonstration facilities

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42 U.S.C. § 6984 — Full-scale demonstration facilities

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**(a) Authority** The Administrator may enter into contracts with public agencies or authorities or private persons for the construction and operation of a full-scale demonstration facility under this chapter, or provide financial assistance in the form of grants to a full-scale demonstration facility under this chapter only if the Administrator finds that— (1) such facility or proposed facility will demonstrate at full scale a new or significantly improved technology or process, a practical and significant improvement in solid waste management practice, or the technological feasibility and cost effectiveness of an existing, but unproven technology, process, or practice, and will not duplicate any other Federal, State, local, or commercial facility which has been constructed or with respect to which construction has begun (determined as of the date action is taken by the Administrator under this chapter), (2) such contract or assistance meets the requirements of [section 6981 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6981&num=0&edition=prelim) and meets other applicable requirements of this chapter, (3) such facility will be able to comply with the guidelines published under [section 6907 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6907&num=0&edition=prelim) and with other laws and regulations for the protection of health and the environment, (4) in the case of a contract for construction or operation, such facility is not likely to be constructed or operated by State, local, or private persons or in the case of an application for financial assistance, such facility is not likely to receive adequate financial assistance from other sources, and (5) any Federal interest in, or assistance to, such facility will be disposed of or terminated, with appropriate compensation, within such period of time as may be necessary to carry out the basic objectives of this chapter. **(b) Time limitation** No obligation may be made by the Administrator for financial assistance under this subchapter for any full-scale demonstration facility after the date ten years after October 21, 1976. No expenditure of funds for any such full-scale demonstration facility under this subchapter may be made by the Administrator after the date fourteen years after October 21, 1976. **(c) Cost sharing** (1) Wherever practicable, in constructing, operating, or providing financial assistance under this subchapter to a full-scale demonstration facility, the Administrator shall endeavor to enter into agreements and make other arrangements for maximum practicable cost sharing with other Federal, State, and local agencies, private persons, or any combination thereof. (2) The Administrator shall enter into arrangements, wherever practicable and desirable, to provide monitoring of full-scale solid waste facilities (whether or not constructed or operated under this chapter) for purposes of obtaining information concerning the performance, and other aspects, of such facilities. Where the Administrator provides only monitoring and evaluation instruments or personnel (or both) or funds for such instruments or personnel and provides no other financial assistance to a facility, notwithstanding [section 6981(c)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6981/c/3&num=0&edition=prelim), title to any invention made or conceived of in the course of developing, constructing, or operating such facility shall not be required to vest in the United States and patents respecting such invention shall not be required to be issued to the United States. **(d) Prohibition** After October 21, 1976, the Administrator shall not construct or operate any full-scale facility (except by contract with public agencies or authorities or private persons).

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42 U.S.C. § 6903 — Definitions

As used in this chapter: (1) The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (2) The term “construction,” with respect to any project of construction under this chapter, means (A) the erection or building of new structures and acquisition of lands or interests therein, or the acquisition, replacement, expansion, remodeling, alteration, modernization, or extension of existing structures, and (B) the acquisition and installation of initial equipment of, or required in connection with, new or newly acquired structures or the expanded, remodeled, altered, modernized or extended part of existing structures (including trucks and other motor vehicles, and tractors, cranes, and other machinery) necessary for the proper utilization and operation of the facility after completion of the project; and includes preliminary planning to determine the economic and engineering feasibility and the public health and safety aspects of the project, the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies, and any surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, and other action necessary for the carrying out of the project, and (C) the inspection and supervision of the process of carrying out the project to completion. (2A) The term “demonstration” means the initial exhibition of a new technology process or practice or a significantly new combination or use of technologies, processes or practices, subsequent to the development stage, for the purpose of proving technological feasibility and cost effectiveness. (3) The term “disposal” means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or haz

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42 U.S.C. § 6907 — Solid waste management information and guidelines

**(a) Guidelines** Within one year of October 21, 1976, and from time to time thereafter, the Administrator shall, in cooperation with appropriate Federal, State, municipal, and intermunicipal agencies, and in consultation with other interested persons, and after public hearings, develop and publish suggested guidelines for solid waste management. Such suggested guidelines shall— (1) provide a technical and economic description of the level of performance that can be attained by various available solid waste management practices (including operating practices) which provide for the protection of public health and the environment; (2) not later than two years after October 21, 1976, describe levels of performance, including appropriate methods and degrees of control, that provide at a minimum for (A) protection of public health and welfare; (B) protection of the quality of ground waters and surface waters from leachates; (C) protection of the quality of surface waters from runoff through compliance with effluent limitations under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended [[33 U.S.C. 1251](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1251&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; (D) protection of ambient air quality through compliance with new source performance standards or requirements of air quality implementation plans under the Clean Air Act, as amended [[42 U.S.C. 7401](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7401&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; (E) disease and vector control; (F) safety; and (G) esthetics; and (3) provide minimum criteria to be used by the States to define those solid waste management practices which constitute the open dumping of solid waste or hazardous waste and are to be pro

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42 U.S.C. § 6981 — Research, demonstration, training, and other activities

**(a) General authority** The Administrator, alone or after consultation with the Secretary of Energy, shall conduct, and encourage, cooperate with, and render financial and other assistance to appropriate public (whether Federal, State, interstate, or local) authorities, agencies, and institutions, private agencies and institutions, and individuals in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, public education programs, and studies relating to— (1) any adverse health and welfare effects of the release into the environment of material present in solid waste, and methods to eliminate such effects; (2) the operation and financing of solid waste management programs; (3) the planning, implementation, and operation of resource recovery and resource conservation systems and hazardous waste management systems, including the marketing of recovered resources; (4) the production of usable forms of recovered resources, including fuel, from solid waste; (5) the reduction of the amount of such waste and unsalvageable waste materials; (6) the development and application of new and improved methods of collecting and disposing of solid waste and processing and recovering materials and energy from solid wastes; (7) the identification of solid waste components and potential materials and energy recoverable from such waste components; (8) small scale and low technology solid waste management systems, including but not limited to, resource recovery source separation systems; (9) methods to improve the performance characteristics of resources recovered from solid waste and the relationship of such performance characteristics to available and potentially available markets for such resources; (10) improv

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42 U.S.C. § 6984 — Full-scale demonstration facilities

Page 7019 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 6984 imum extent possible with State and local au- thorities. (g) Special restriction Upon request, the full range of alternative technologies, programs or processes deemed fea- sible to meet the resource recovery or resource conservation needs of a jurisdiction shall be de- scribed in such a manner as to provide a suffi- cient evaluative basis from which the jurisdic- tion can make its decisions, but no officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, in an official capacity, lobby for or otherwise represent an agency position in favor of resource recovery or resource conserva- tion, as a policy alternative for adoption into ordinances, codes, regulations, or law by any State or political subdivision thereof. (Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 8003, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2834; amended Pub. L. 95–609, § 7(u), Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3083.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1978—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 95–609 substituted ‘‘solid waste’’ for ‘‘discarded materials’’. Executive Documents TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Ad- ministrator or other official of Environmental Protec- tion 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. § 6984. Full-scale demonstration facilities (a) Authority The Administrator may enter into contracts with public agencies or authorities or private persons for the construction and operation of a full-scale demonstration facility under this chapter,

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