US Code

Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

42 U.S.C. § 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)
42 U.S.C. 6901 the , Interagency Agreement between the Department of Commerce and the Environmental Protection Agency on the Implementation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act [ et seq.]; and
(C)
any subsequent agreements between these agencies or other Federal agencies which address Federal resource recovery or conservation activities.

Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 2001Pub. L. 94–580, § 290 Stat. 2804Pub. L. 96–482, § 4(c)94 Stat. 2335Pub. L. 96–510, title III, § 307(a)94 Stat. 2810(, as added , , ; amended , , ; , , .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Pub. L. 94–58090 Stat. 2796section 6901 of this titleThe Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2)(B), is , , , which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 6901 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under and Tables.

Codification

section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66section 1113 of Title 31Subsection (b)(3) of this section, which required the Interagency Coordinating Committee to submit to Congress on March 1 of each year, a five-year action plan for Federal resource conservation or recovery activities, terminated, effective , pursuant to , as amended, set out as a note under , Money and Finance. See, also, the 2nd item on page 175 of House Document No. 103–7.

Amendments

Pub. L. 96–5101980—Subsec. (a). 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).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

Pub. L. 96–510, title III, § 307(c)94 Stat. 2810

“The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall become effective ninety days after the date of the enactment of this Act [].”
, , , provided that:

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

section 6903 of this titleFor 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, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under .