90 STAT. 2834 Report to President and Congress. Appropriation authorization.
PUBLIC LAW 94-580—OCT. 21, 1976 "(4) The results of such investigation and study, including recommendations, shall be reported to the President and the Congress not later than two years after enactment of this subsection. "(5) There are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $2,000,000 to carry out this subsection. "(k) AIRPORT LANDFILLS.—The Administrator shall undertake a comprehensive study and analysis of and publish a report on systems to alleviate the hazards to aviation from birds congregating and feeding on landfills in the vicinity of airports. "(1) COMPLETION OF RESEARCH AND STUDIES.—The Administrator shall complete the research and studies, and submit the reports, required under subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (k) not later than October 1, 1978. The Administrator shall complete the research and studies, and submit the reports, required under subsections (a), (h), (i), and (j) not later than October 1, 1979. Upon completion, each study specified in subsections (a) through (k) of this section, the Administrator shall prepare a plan for research, development, and demonstration respecting the findings of the study and shall submit any legislative recommendations resulting from such study to appropriate committees of Congress. "(m) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $8,000,000 for the fiscal years 1978 and 1979 to carry out this section other than subsection (j). "CJOORDINATION, COLLECTION, AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
42 USC 6983.
"SEC. 8003. (a) INFORMATION.—The Administrator shall develop, collect, evaluate, and coordinate information on— " (1) metnods and costs of the collection of solid waste; "(2) solid waste management practices, including data on the different management methods and the cost, operation, and maintenance of such methods; "(3) the amounts and percentages of resources (including energy) that can be recovered from solid waste by use of various discarded materials management practices and various technologies; "(4) methods available to reduce the amount of solid waste that is generated; "(5) existing and developing technologies for the recovery of energy or materials from solid waste and the costs, reliability, and risks associated with such technologies; "(6) hazardous solid waste, including incidents of damage resulting from the disposal of hazardous solid wastes; inherently and potentially hazardous solid wastes; methods of neutralizing or properly disposing of hazardous solid wastes; facilities that properly dispose of hazardous wastes; "(7) methods of financing resource recovery facilities or, sanitary landfills, or hazardous solid waste treatment facilities, whichever is appropriate for the entity developing such facility or landfill (taking into account the amount of solid waste reasonably expected to be available to such entity); "(8) the availability of markets for the purchase of resources, either materials or energy, recovered from solid waste; and "(9) research and development projects respecting solid waste management.
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