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[CITE: 42USC6911]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 82--SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE; AUTHORITIES OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
 
Sec. 6911. Office of Solid Waste and Interagency Coordinating 
        Committee
        

(a) Office of Solid Waste

    The Administrator shall establish within the Environmental 
Protection Agency an Office of Solid Waste (hereinafter referred to as 
the ``Office'') to be headed by an Assistant Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency. The duties and responsibilities (other 
than duties and responsibilities relating to research and development) 
of the Administrator under this chapter (as modified by applicable 
reorganization plans) shall be carried out through the Office.

(b) Interagency Coordinating Committee

    (1) There is hereby established an Interagency Coordinating 
Committee on Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Activities which 
shall have the responsibility for coordinating all activities dealing 
with resource conservation and recovery from solid waste carried out by 
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the 
Department of Commerce, and all other Federal agencies which conduct 
such activities pursuant to this chapter or any other Act. For purposes 
of this subsection, the term ``resource conservation and recovery 
activities'' shall include, but not be limited to, all research, 
development and demonstration projects on resource conservation or 
energy, or material, recovery from solid waste, and all technical or 
financial assistance for State or local planning for, or implementation 
of, projects related to resource conservation or energy or material, 
recovery from solid waste. The Committee shall be chaired by the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or such person as 
the Administrator may designate. Members of the Committee shall include 
representatives of the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, 
the Department of the Treasury, and each other Federal agency which the 
Administrator determines to have programs or responsibilities affecting 
resource conservation or recovery.
    (2) The Interagency Coordinating Committee shall include oversight 
of the implementation of
        (A) the May 1979 Memorandum of Understanding on Energy Recovery 
    from Municipal Solid Waste between the Environmental Protection 
    Agency and the Department of Energy;
        (B) the May 30, 1978, Interagency Agreement between the 
    Department of Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency on 
    the Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act [42 
    U.S.C. 6901 et seq.]; and
        (C) any subsequent agreements between these agencies or other 
    Federal agencies which address Federal resource recovery or 
    conservation activities.

    (3) The Interagency Coordinating Committee shall submit to the 
Congress by March 1, 1981, and on March 1 each year thereafter, a five-
year action plan for Federal resource conservation or recovery 
activities which shall identify means and propose programs to encourage 
resource conservation or material and energy recovery and increase 
private and municipal investment in resource conservation or recovery 
systems, especially those which provide for material conservation or 
recovery as well as energy conservation or recovery. Such plan shall 
describe, at a minimum, a coordinated and nonduplicatory plan for 
resource recovery and conservation activities for the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, 
and all other Federal agencies which conduct such activities.

(Pub. L. 89-272, title II, Sec. 2001, as added Pub. L. 94-580, Sec. 2, 
Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2804; amended Pub. L. 96-482, Sec. 4(c), Oct. 
21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2335; Pub. L. 96-510, title III, Sec. 307(a), Dec. 
11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2810.)

                       References in Text

    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, referred to in subsec. 
(b)(2)(B), is Pub. L. 94-580, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2796, which is 
classified generally to this chapter (Sec. 6901 et seq.). For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 6901 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-510 substituted reference to Assistant 
Administrator for reference to Deputy Assistant Administrator.
    Pub. L. 96-482 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and 
added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Section 307(c) of Pub. L. 96-510 provided that: ``The amendment made 
by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall become effective ninety 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 11, 1980].''

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Administrator or 
other official of Environmental Protection Agency under this chapter to 
Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural 
Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of 
Energy, see note set out under section 6903 of this title.
