Title: TRASH Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Trash Reduction and Sensible Handling Act of 2017 or the TRASH Act
This bill amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize state solid waste management plans to restrict the importation of out-of-state waste at the state and local level by requiring out-of-state waste to be from states with waste handling and reduction standards that are equivalent to or more stringent than the standards of the state receiving the waste.
Those plans may impose a community benefit fee on out-of-state waste, which may be higher than, or in addition to, the fees for in-state waste. States may provide those fees to affected communities and may differentiate community benefit fees based on whether the imported waste was disposed of at a landfill, an incinerator, a resource recovery facility, a waste-to-energy facility, or other waste handling facility.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3967 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3967

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 2017

Mr. Cartwright (for himself and Mr. McNerney) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 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 Representatives 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 2017'' 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--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``Relating to 
        Recycled Oil'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as clauses 
        (i) through (iv), respectively, and indenting appropriately;
            (3) in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so 
        redesignated), 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 submitted 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 another State be only 
                        from States with equivalent or more stringent 
                        standards of waste handling and reduction.
                            ``(ii) Subject to subparagraph (B), 
                        imposition of additional or higher fees on 
                        interstate waste imports, regardless of the 
                        compliance of the exporting State with the 
                        waste handling and reduction standards of the 
                        importing 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 affected 
                        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 incinerator, 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)--
                    (A) by striking ``section 4003(b)'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``section 4003(c)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3)(C), by striking ``section 
                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)''.
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