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[CITE: 42USC6933]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 82--SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
 
               SUBCHAPTER III--HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 6933. Hazardous waste site inventory


(a) State inventory programs

    Each State shall, as expeditiously as practicable, undertake a 
continuing program to compile, publish, and submit to the Administrator 
an inventory describing the location of each site within such State at 
which hazardous waste has at any time been stored or disposed of. Such 
inventory shall contain--
        (1) a description of the location of the sites at which any such 
    storage or disposal has taken place before the date on which permits 
    are required under section 6925 of this title for such storage or 
    disposal;
        (2) such information relating to the amount, nature, and 
    toxicity of the hazardous waste at each such site as may be 
    practicable to obtain and as may be necessary to determine the 
    extent of any health hazard which may be associated with such site;
        (3) the name and address, or corporate headquarters of, the 
    owner of each such site, determined as of the date of preparation of 
    the inventory;
        (4) an identification of the types or techniques of waste 
    treatment or disposal which have been used at each such site; and
        (5) information concerning the current status of the site, 
    including information respecting whether or not hazardous waste is 
    currently being treated or disposed of at such site (and if not, the 
    date on which such activity ceased) and information respecting the 
    nature of any other activity currently carried out at such site.

For purposes of assisting the States in compiling information under this 
section, the Administrator shall make available to each State 
undertaking a program under this section such information as is 
available to him concerning the items specified in paragraphs (1) 
through (5) with respect to the sites within such State, including such 
information as the Administrator is able to obtain from other agencies 
or departments of the United States and from surveys and studies carried 
out by any committee or subcommittee of the Congress. Any State may 
exercise the authority of section 6927 of this title for purposes of 
this section in the same manner and to the same extent as provided in 
such section in the case of States having an authorized hazardous waste 
program, and any State may by order require any person to submit such 
information as may be necessary to compile the data referred to in 
paragraphs (1) through (5).

(b) Environmental Protection Agency program

    If the Administrator determines that any State program under 
subsection (a) of this section is not adequately providing information 
respecting the sites in such State referred to in subsection (a) of this 
section, the Administrator shall notify the State. If within ninety days 
following such notification, the State program has not been revised or 
amended in such manner as will adequately provide such information, the 
Administrator shall carry out the inventory program in such State. In 
any such case--
        (1) the Administrator shall have the authorities provided with 
    respect to State programs under subsection (a) of this section;
        (2) the funds allocated under subsection (c) of this section for 
    grants to States under this section may be used by the Administrator 
    for carrying out such program in such State; and
        (3) no further expenditure may be made for grants to such State 
    under this section until such time as the Administrator determines 
    that such State is carrying out, or will carry out, an inventory 
    program which meets the requirements of this section.

(c) Grants

    (1) Upon receipt of an application submitted by any State to carry 
out a program under this section, the Administrator may make grants to 
the States for purposes of carrying out such a program. Grants under 
this section shall be allocated among the several States by the 
Administrator based upon such regulations as he prescribes to carry out 
the purposes of this section. The Administrator may make grants to any 
State which has conducted an inventory program which effectively carried 
out the purposes of this section before October 21, 1980, to reimburse 
such State for all, or any portion of, the costs incurred by such State 
in conducting such program.
    (2) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
section $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988.

(d) No impediment to immediate remedial action

    Nothing in this section shall be construed to provide that the 
Administrator or any State should, pending completion of the inventory 
required under this section, postpone undertaking any enforcement or 
remedial action with respect to any site at which hazardous waste has 
been treated, stored, or disposed of.

(Pub. L. 89-272, title II, Sec. 3012, as added Pub. L. 96-482, 
Sec. 17(a), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2342; amended Pub. L. 98-616, 
Sec. 2(c), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3222.)

                          Codification

    Another section 3012 of Pub. L. 89-272 as added by Pub. L. 96-463, 
Sec. 7(a), Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2057, was redesignated section 3014 
of Pub. L. 89-272, and is classified to section 6935 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 98-616 substituted ``$25,000,000 for 
each of the fiscal years 1985 through 1988'' for ``$20,000,000''.

                          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.
