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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

98 STAT. 3288

PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984

(b) The table of contents of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by inserting the following after the items relating to subtitle H: "Subtitle I—Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks "Sec. 9001. Definitions. "Sec. 9002. Notification. "Sec. 9003. Release detection, prevention, and correction regulations. "Sec. 9004. Approval of State programs. "Sec. 9005. Inspections, monitoring, and testing. "Sec. 9006. Federal enforcement. "Sec. 9007. Federal facilities. "Sec. 9008. State authority. "Sec. 9009. Study of underground storage tanks. "Sec. 9010. Authorization of appropriations.".

TITLE VII—OTHER PROVISIONS REPORT TO CONGRESS ON INJECTION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

SEC. 701. (a) The Administrator, in cooperation with the States, shall compile and, not later than six months after the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of Representatives, an inventory of all wells in the United States which inject hazardous wastes. The inventory shall include the following information: (1) the location and depth of each well; (2) engineering and construction details of each, including the thickness and composition of its casing, the width and content of the annulus, and pump pressure and capacity; (3) the hydrogeological characteristics of the overlying and underlying strata, as well as that into which the waste is injected; (4) the location and size of all drinking water aquifers penetrated by the well, or within a one-mile radius of the well or within two hundred feet below the well injection point; (5) the location, capacity, and population served by each well providing drinking or irrigation water which is within a fivemile radius of the injection well; (6) the nature and volume of the waste injected during the one-year period immediately preceding the date of the report; (7) the dates and nature of the inspections of the injection well conducted by independent third parties or agents of State, Federal, or local government; (8) the name and address of all owners and operators of the well and any disposal facility associated with it; (9) the identification of all wells at which enforcement actions have been initiated under this Act (by reason of well failure, operator error, ground water contamination or for other reasons) and an identification of the wastes involved in such enforcement actions; and (10) such other information as the Administrator may, in his discretion, deem necessary to define the scope and nature of hazardous waste disposal in the United States through underground injection.