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[USC02] 42 USC 300h: Regulations for State programs
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42 USC 300h: Regulations for State programs Text contains those laws in effect on February 24, 2020
(1) Regulations under subsection (a) for State underground injection programs shall contain minimum requirements for effective programs to prevent underground injection which endangers drinking water sources within the meaning of subsection (d)(2). Such regulations shall require that a State program, in order to be approved under section 300h–1 of this title-
(2) Regulations of the Administrator under this section for State underground injection control programs may not prescribe requirements which interfere with or impede-
(1) The Administrator may, upon application of the Governor of a State which authorizes underground injection by means of permits, authorize such State to issue (without regard to subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)) temporary permits for underground injection which may be effective until the, expiration of four years after December 16, 1974, if-
(2) The Administrator may, upon application of the Governor of a State which authorizes underground injection by means of permits, authorize such State to issue (without regard to subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)), but after reasonable notice and hearing, one or more temporary permits each of which is applicable to a particular injection well and to the underground injection of a particular fluid and which may be effective until the expiration of four years after December 16, 1974, if the State finds, on the record of such hearing-
(d) "Underground injection" defined; underground injection endangerment of drinking water sources
(1) Underground injection.-The term "underground injection"-
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIV, §1421, as added Pub. L. 93–523, §2(a), Dec. 16, 1974, 88 Stat. 1674 ; amended Pub. L. 95–190, §6(b), Nov. 16, 1977, 91 Stat. 1396 ; Pub. L. 96–502, §§3, 4(c), Dec. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 2738 ; Pub. L. 99–339, title II, §201(a), June 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 653 ; Pub. L. 104–182, title V, §501(b)(1), Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1691 ; Pub. L. 109–58, title III, §322, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 694 .)
Section 300j–6(b) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b)(1)(D), was repealed, and a new section 300j–6(b) relating to administrative penalty orders was added, by Pub. L. 104–182, title I, §129(a), Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1660 .
2005-Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 109–58 inserted heading and amended text of par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: "The term 'underground injection' means the subsurface emplacement of fluids by well injection. Such term does not include the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage."
1996-Subsec. (b)(3)(B)(i). Pub. L. 104–182 substituted "number of States" for "number or States".
1986-Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 99–339 inserted "or natural gas storage operations" after "production".
1980-Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 96–502, §4(c), substituted "effective on the date on which the applicable underground injection control program takes effect" for "effective three years after December 16, 1974".
1977-Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 95–190 added par. (3).