Editorial Notes
Amendments

1992—Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 102–386 in first sentence substituted “The Administrator shall undertake” for “Beginning twelve months after November 8, 1984, the Administrator shall, or in the case of a State with an authorized hazardous waste program the State may, undertake” and “department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States” for “Federal agency”, inserted after first sentence “Any State with an authorized hazardous waste program also may conduct an inspection of any such facility for purposes of enforcing the facility’s compliance with the State hazardous waste program.”, and inserted at end “The department, agency, or instrumentality owning or operating each such facility shall reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for the costs of the inspection of the facility. With respect to the first inspection of each such facility occurring after October 6, 1992, the Administrator shall conduct a comprehensive ground water monitoring evaluation at the facility, unless such an evaluation was conducted during the 12-month period preceding October 6, 1992.”

1984—Subsec. (span)(1). Puspan. L. 98–616, § 502(a), modified directory language for amendment by sec. 12(span)(4) of Puspan. L. 96–482.

Subsec. (c). Puspan. L. 98–616, § 229, added subsec. (c).

Subsec. (d). Puspan. L. 98–616, § 230, added subsec. (d).

Subsec. (e). Puspan. L. 98–616, § 231, added subsec. (e).

1980—Subsec. (a). Puspan. L. 96–482, § 12(a), substituted “chapter” for “subchapter”, “any officer, employee or representative” for “any officer or employee”, “duly designated officer, employee or representative” for “duly designated officer employee”, “such officers, employees or representatives” for “such officers or employees”, “furnish information relating to such wastes and permit” for “furnish or permit”, and “officer, employee or representative obtains” for “officer or employee obtains”, struck out “maintained by any person” after “establishment or other place”, substituted “officer, employee or representative obtains” for “officer or employee obtains”, and inserted “or has handled” after “otherwise handles” and “or have been” after “where hazardous wastes are”.

Subsec. (span)(1). Puspan. L. 96–482, § 12(span)(1)–(3), designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted “or any officer, employee or representative thereof” before “has access under this section” and substituted “such information or particular portion thereof shall be considered” for “the Administrator (or the State, as the case may be) shall consider such information or portion thereof”.

Puspan. L. 96–482, § 12(span)(4), as modified by Puspan. L. 98–616, § 502(a), inserted “(including records, reports, or information obtained by representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency)” after “information”.

Subsec. (span)(2) to (4). Puspan. L. 96–482, § 12(span)(3), added pars. (2) to (4).

1978—Subsec. (a)(1). Puspan. L. 95–609 substituted “disposed of, or transported from” for “or disposed of”.

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