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[CITE: 42USC6991f]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 82--SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
 
         SUBCHAPTER IX--REGULATION OF UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS
 
Sec. 6991f. Federal facilities


(a) Application of subchapter

    Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the executive, 
legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government having 
jurisdiction over any underground storage tank shall be subject to and 
comply with all Federal, State, interstate, and local requirements, 
applicable to such tank, both substantive and procedural, in the same 
manner, and to the same extent, as any other person is subject to such 
requirements, including payment of reasonable service charges. Neither 
the United States, nor any agent, employee, or officer thereof, shall be 
immune or exempt from any process or sanction of any State or Federal 
court with respect to the enforcement of any such injunctive relief.

(b) Presidential exemption

    The President may exempt any underground storage tanks of any 
department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive branch from 
compliance with such a requirement if he determines it to be in the 
paramount interest of the United States to do so. No such exemption 
shall be granted due to lack of appropriation unless the President shall 
have specifically requested such appropriation as a part of the 
budgetary process and the Congress shall have failed to make available 
such requested appropriations. Any exemption shall be for a period not 
in excess of one year, but additional exemptions may be granted for 
periods not to exceed one year upon the President's making a new 
determination. The President shall report each January to the Congress 
all exemptions from the requirements of this section granted during the 
preceding calendar year, together with his reason for granting each such 
exemption.

(Pub. L. 89-272, title II, Sec. 9007, as added Pub. L. 98-616, title VI, 
Sec. 601(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3286.)
