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42 USC § 6939g - Hazardous waste electronic manifest system
Collection of fees The Administrator shall—
Fee structure (A)
In general The Administrator, in consultation with information technology vendors, shall determine through the contract award process described in subsection (e) the fee structure that is necessary to recover the full cost to the Administrator of providing system-related services, including—
contractor costs relating to—
Adjustments in fee amount (i)
The Administrator, in consultation with the Board, shall increase or decrease the amount of a service fee determined under the fee structure described in subparagraph (A) to a level that will—
Exception for initial period of operation
Adjustments to service fees described in clause (i) shall be made—
Crediting and availability of fees Fees authorized under this section shall be collected and available for obligation only to the extent and in the amount provided in advance in appropriations Acts.
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund (1)
Establishment There is established in the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund, to be known as the “Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund”, consisting of such amounts as are deposited in the Fund under subsection (c)(2)(B).
Expenditures from Fund (A)
In general Only to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, on request by the Administrator, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer from the Fund to the Administrator amounts appropriated to pay costs incurred in developing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading the system under subsection (c).
Use of funds by Administrator Fees collected by the Administrator and deposited in the Fund under this section shall be available to the Administrator subject to appropriations Acts for use in accordance with this section without fiscal year limitation.
Oversight of funds The Administrator shall carry out all necessary measures to ensure that amounts in the Fund are used only to carry out the goals of establishing, operating, maintaining, upgrading, managing, supporting, and overseeing the system.
Accounting and auditing (A)
Accounting For each 2-fiscal-year period, the Administrator shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report that includes—
an accounting of the fees paid to the Administrator under subsection (c) and disbursed from the Fund for the period covered by the report, as reflected by financial statements provided in accordance with—
Auditing (i)
For the purpose of section 3515
(c) of title 31, the Fund shall be considered a component of an Executive agency.
Components of audit
The annual audit required in accordance with sections 3515
(b) and 3521 of title 31 of the financial statements of activities carried out using amounts from the Fund shall include an analysis of—
Authority to enter into contracts funded by service fees After consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator may enter into 1 or more information technology contracts with entities determined to be appropriate by the Administrator (referred to in this subsection as “contractors”) for the provision of system-related services.
Term of contract A contract awarded under this subsection shall have a term of not more than 10 years.
Achievement of goals The Administrator shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that a contract awarded under this subsection—
contains performance standards that may be used to measure achievement and goals to evaluate the success of a contractor in performing under the contract and the right of the contractor to payment for services under the contract, taking into consideration that a primary measure of successful performance shall be the development of a hazardous waste electronic manifest system that—
provides the waste receipt data applicable to the biennial reports required by section 6922
Payment structure Each contract awarded under this subsection shall include a provision that specifies—
Cancellation and termination (A)
In general If the Administrator determines that sufficient funds are not made available for the continuation in a subsequent fiscal year of a contract entered into under this subsection, the Administrator may cancel or terminate the contract.
Negotiation of amounts The amount payable in the event of cancellation or termination of a contract entered into under this subsection shall be negotiated with the contractor at the time at which the contract is awarded.
No effect on ownership Regardless of whether the Administrator enters into a contract under this subsection, the system shall be owned by the Federal Government.
Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory Board (1)
Establishment Not later than 3 years after October 5, 2012, the Administrator shall establish a board to be known as the “Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Advisory Board”.
Composition The Board shall be composed of 9 members, of which—
8 members shall be individuals appointed by the Administrator—
Duties The Board shall meet annually to discuss, evaluate the effectiveness of, and provide recommendations to the Administrator relating to, the system.
In general Not later than 1 year after October 5, 2012, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator shall promulgate regulations to carry out this section.
Inclusions The regulations promulgated pursuant to subparagraph (A) may include such requirements as the Administrator determines to be necessary to facilitate the transition from the use of paper manifests to the use of electronic manifests, or to accommodate the processing of data from paper manifests in the electronic manifest system, including a requirement that users of paper manifests submit to the system copies of the paper manifests for data processing purposes.
Requirements The regulations promulgated pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall ensure that each electronic manifest provides, to the same extent as paper manifests under applicable Federal and State law, for—
the ability to track and maintain legal accountability of—
Effective date of regulations Any regulation promulgated by the Administrator under paragraph (1) and in accordance with section 6923 of this title relating to electronic manifesting of hazardous waste shall take effect in each State as of the effective date specified in the regulation.
Administration The Administrator shall carry out regulations promulgated under this subsection in each State unless the State program is fully authorized to carry out such regulations in lieu of the Administrator.
Requirement of compliance with respect to certain States In any case in which the State in which waste is generated, or the State in which waste will be transported to a designated facility, requires that the waste be tracked through a hazardous waste manifest, the designated facility that receives the waste shall, regardless of the State in which the facility is located—
Authorization for start-up activities There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2015 for start-up activities to carry out this section, to be offset by collection of user fees under subsection (c) such that all such appropriated funds are offset by fees as provided in subsection (c).
(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 3024, as added Pub. L. 112–195, § 2(a),Oct. 5, 2012, 126 Stat. 1452.)
42 USCDescription of ChangeSession YearPublic LawStatutes at Large § 6939gnew2012112-195 [Sec.] 2(a) "3024"126 Stat. 1452 LII has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references LII.