Materials Relating to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 86 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aluminum amount application appropriate areas authorized benefits carry chemicals cities collection Conservation construction consumption containers contract cost demonstration Designating Hazardous Waste disposal sites domestic economic effect Electric energy energy recovery Environmental Protection Agency equipment estimated facilities Federal fibers fiscal fuel glass grant growth hazardous discarded materials Hazardous Waste Hazardous Waste Legislation illustration improved increase industrial iron Italy June 30 land landfill Legislation or Program Limiting manufacturing means metals methods million tons mineral mining Miscellaneous municipal Number operation organic packaging percent person planning Pollution Control population potential practices processing production wastes provides Published quantities raw material recovered recycling reduction refuse regional Regulations Report to Congress resource recovery savings scrap secondary material Secretary separation soft drink solid waste disposal Source Specific steam steel Survey Table term tion United utilization
Popular passages
Page 62 - Administrator shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on projects assisted under this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for the same type of work on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended, known as the Davis-Bacon Act (46 Stat.
Page 58 - The Surgeon General shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and...
Page 58 - ... (b) In carrying out the provisions of the preceding subsection the Secretary is authorized to — "(1) collect and make available, through publications and other appropriate means, the results of and other information...
Page 57 - municipality" means a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, or other public body created by or pursuant to State law and...
Page 57 - For the purposes of this Act — (1) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; (2) The term "Commissioner" means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Commissioner of the Administration on Aging.
Page 57 - Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; except that such term means the Secretary of the Interior with respect to problems of solid waste resulting from the extraction, processing, or utilization of minerals or fossil fuels where the generation, production, or reuse of such waste is or may be controlled within the extraction, processing, or utilization facility or facilities and where such control is a feature of the technology or economy of the operation of such facility...
Page 57 - Act therefore are — (1) to promote the demonstration, construction, and application of solid waste management and resource recovery systems which preserve and enhance the quality of air, water, and land resources...
Page 15 - Hazardous waste means any waste or combination of wastes which pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or living organisms because such wastes are nondegradable or persistent in nature or because they can be biologically magnified, or because they can be lethal, or because they may otherwise cause or tend to cause detrimental cumulative effects.
Page 62 - Act; and the Secretary of Labor shall have with respect to the labor standards specified in this section the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 FR 3176; 5 USC 133z-15) and section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 USC 276c).
Page 59 - State or interstate agency in carrying out the purposes of this section, and for the submission of such other reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time find necessary for carrying out the purposes of this section and for keeping such records and affording such access thereto as he may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports...