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[CITE: 42USC6941a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 82--SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
 
           SUBCHAPTER IV--STATE OR REGIONAL SOLID WASTE PLANS
 
Sec. 6941a. Energy and materials conservation and recovery; 
        Congressional findings
        
    The Congress finds that--
        (1) significant savings could be realized by conserving 
    materials in order to reduce the volume or quantity of material 
    which ultimately becomes waste;
        (2) solid waste contains valuable energy and material resources 
    which can be recovered and used thereby conserving increasingly 
    scarce and expensive fossil fuels and virgin materials;
        (3) the recovery of energy and materials from municipal waste, 
    and the conservation of energy and materials contributing to such 
    waste streams, can have the effect of reducing the volume of the 
    municipal waste stream and the burden of disposing of increasing 
    volumes of solid waste;
        (4) the technology to conserve resources exists and is 
    commercially feasible to apply;
        (5) the technology to recover energy and materials from solid 
    waste is of demonstrated commercial feasibility; and
        (6) various communities throughout the nation have different 
    needs and different potentials for conserving resources and for 
    utilizing techniques for the recovery of energy and materials from 
    waste, and Federal assistance in planning and implementing such 
    energy and materials conservation and recovery programs should be 
    available to all such communities on an equitable basis in relation 
    to their needs and potential.

(Pub. L. 96-482, Sec. 32(a), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2353.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
Amendments of 1980, and not as part of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
which comprises this chapter.
