98 STAT. 3240
PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984
this section for underground tanks that cannot be entered for inspection. Within forty-eight months after the date of the enactment of the Hsizardous and SoHd Waste Amendments of 1984, such standards shall be modified, if necessary, to cover at a minimum all requirements and standards described in section 9003.". FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION
Ante, p. 3226.
SEC. 208. Section 3004(a) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (as redesignated by section 201 of this Act) is amended by inserting "(including financial responsibility for corrective action)" immediately after "and financial responsibility" in paragraph (6). MINING WASTE AND OTHER SPECIAL WASTES
Ante, p. 3239. 42 USC 6924.
Post, p. 3243.
SEC. 209. Section 3004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by adding the following new subsection after subsection (w): "(x) If (1) solid waste from the extraction, beneficiation or processing of ores and minerals, including phosphate rock and overburden from the mining of uranium, (2) fly ash waste, bottom ash waste, slag waste, and flue gas emission control waste generated primarily from the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels, or (3) cement kiln dust waste, is subject to regulation under this subtitle, the Administrator is authorized to modify the requirements of subsections (c). (d), (e), (f), (g), (o), and (u) and section 3005(j), in the case of landfills or surface impoundments receiving such solid waste, to take into account the special characteristics of such wastes, the practical difficulties associated with implementation of such requirements, and site-specific characteristics, including but not limited to the climate, geology, hydrology and soil chemistry at the site, so long as such modified requirements assure protection of human health and the environment.', Subtitle B—Amendments Primarily to Section 3005 AUTHORITY FOR PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE, OR DISPOSAL FACILITIES
42 USC 6925.
15 USC 2605.
SEC. 211. Section 3005(a) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by— (1) striking "a" immediately after "owning or operating" in the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "an existing facility or planning to construct a new"; (2) inserting in the second sentence "and the construction of any new facility for the treatment, storage, or disposal of any such hazardous waste" immediately after "any such hazardous waste"; and (3) adding the following at the end thereof: "No permit shall be required under this section in order to construct a facility if such facility is constructed pursuant to an approval issued by the Administrator under section 6(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act for the incineration of polycholorinated biphenyls and any person owning or operating such a facility may, at any time after operation or construction of such facility has begun, file an application for a permit pursuant to this section authorizing such facility to incinerate hazardous waste identified or listed under this subtitle.".
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