I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5656 
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize States to restrict 
interstate waste imports and impose a higher fee on out-of-State waste. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 7, 2016 
Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. LOWENTHAL, 
Mr. DEFAZIO, and Mr. MCNERNEY) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize States 
to restrict interstate waste imports and impose a higher 
fee on out-of-State waste. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Trash Reduction and 
Sensible Handling Act of 2016’’ or the ‘‘TRASH Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DISCRETIONARY STATE PLAN PROVISIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4003(b) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6943(b)) is amended— 
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(1) in the subsection heading, by striking ‘‘RE-
LATING TO RECYCLED OIL’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 
(4) as clauses (i) through (iv), respectively, and in-
denting appropriately; 
(3) in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so re-
designated), by striking ‘‘Any State’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) RECYCLED OIL.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Any State’’; 
(4) in the undesignated matter following clause 
(iv) (as so redesignated), by striking ‘‘Any plan’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(B) 
AMENDMENTS
TO
PLANS.—Any 
plan’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) INTERSTATE WASTE IMPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Any State plan sub-
mitted under this subtitle may include, at the 
option of the State, provisions to carry out each 
of the following: 
‘‘(i) Restrictions at the State and 
local level of interstate waste imports by 
requiring that waste imported from an-
other State be only from States with equiv-
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alent or higher standards of waste han-
dling and reduction. 
‘‘(ii) Subject to subparagraph (B), im-
position of higher fees on interstate waste 
imports, regardless of the compliance of 
the exporting State with the waste han-
dling and reduction standards of the im-
porting State. 
‘‘(B) FEES DESCRIBED.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—A fee imposed 
under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be known 
as a ‘community benefit fee’. 
‘‘(ii) DISBURSAL OF FEES.—A State 
may provide community benefit fees to af-
fected communities. 
‘‘(iii) DIFFERENTIATION OF FEES.— 
The State may differentiate community 
benefit fees based on whether the imported 
waste was disposed of at a landfill, an in-
cinerator, a resource recovery facility, a 
waste-to-energy facility, or other waste 
handling facility.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 4008 of the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6948) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘section 4003(b)’’ each 
place 
it 
appears 
and 
inserting 
‘‘section 
4003(c)’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3)(C), by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 4003(b)(1)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
4003(c)(1)(A)’’; 
(2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ‘‘section 
4003(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 4003(b)(1)’’; and 
(3) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘section 
4003(b)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 4003(c)(1)’’. 
Æ 
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