Source: http://guides.law.fsu.edu/environmentalcrimes/hazardouswaste
Timestamp: 2017-11-24 21:49:24
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 6902', '§ 6928', '§ 6903', '§ 2011', '§ 260', '§ 6928', 'art 260', 'art 261', 'art 262']

Hazardous Waste - Environmental Crimes - Research Guides at Florida State University College of Law Research Center
42 U.S.C. § 6902. Objectives and national policy
The objectives of this chapter are to promote the protection of health and the environment and to conserve valuable material and energy resources by--
(1) providing technical and financial assistance to State and local governments and interstate agencies for the development of solid waste management plans (including resource recovery and resource conservation systems) which will promote improved solid waste management techniques (including more effective organizational arrangements), new and improved methods of collection, separation, and recovery of solid waste, and the environmentally safe disposal of nonrecoverable residues;
(2) providing training grants in occupations involving the design, operation, and maintenance of solid waste disposal systems;
(3) prohibiting future open dumping on the land and requiring the conversion of existing open dumps to facilities which do not pose a danger to the environment or to health;
(4) assuring that hazardous waste management practices are conducted in a manner which protects human health and the environment;
(5) requiring that hazardous waste be properly managed in the first instance thereby reducing the need for corrective action at a future date;
(6) minimizing the generation of hazardous waste and the land disposal of hazardous waste by encouraging process substitution, materials recovery, properly conducted recycling and reuse, and treatment;
(7) establishing a viable Federal-State partnership to carry out the purposes of this chapter and insuring that the Administrator will, in carrying out the provisions of subchapter III of this chapter, give a high priority to assisting and cooperating with States in obtaining full authorization of State programs under subchapter III of this chapter;
(8) providing for the promulgation of guidelines for solid waste collection, transport, separation, recovery, and disposal practices and systems;
(9) promoting a national research and development program for improved solid waste management and resource conservation techniques, more effective organizational arrangements, and new and improved methods of collection, separation, and recovery, and recycling of solid wastes and environmentally safe disposal of nonrecoverable residue
(10) promoting the demonstration, construction, and application of solid waste management, resource recovery, and resource conservation systems which preserve and enhance the quality of air, water, and land resources; and
(11) establishing a cooperative effort among the Federal, State, and local governments and private enterprise in order to recover valuable materials and energy from solid waste.
The Congress hereby declares it to be the national policy of the United States that, wherever feasible, the generation of hazardous waste is to be reduced or eliminated as expeditiously as possible. Waste that is nevertheless generated should be treated, stored, or disposed of so as to minimize the present and future threat to human health and the environment.
42 U.S.C. § 6928
42 U.S.C. § 6903
(5) The term “hazardous waste” means a solid waste, or combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may--
(27) The term “solid waste” means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 1342 of Title 33, or source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 923) [42 U.S.C.A. § 2011 et seq.].
40 C.F.R. § 260.10
Cases: Knowing
U.S. v. Hayes Intern. Corp., 786 F.2d 1499 (11th Cir. 1986) (42 U.S.C. § 6928(d)(1))
U.S. v. Goldsmith, 978 F.2d 643 (11th Cir. 1992) (Hoflin instruction approved)
42 C.F.R. Part 260: Hazardous Waste Management System: General
42 C.F.R. Part 261: Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste
42 C.F.R. Part 262: Standards Applicable to Generators of Hazardous Waste
Susan M. Cooke, ed., The Law of Hazardous Waste, Ch. 17A, Criminal Enforcement of Federal Hazardous Waste Laws (Matthew Bender, 2014)
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