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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

98 STAT. 3264

PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984

(b) The table of contents for such subtitle C is amended by adding the following new item after the item relating to section 3016: "Sec. 3017. Export of hazardous waste.".

Ante, p. 3256.

(c) Section 3008(d) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by section 232 of this Act, is amended by adding after paragraph (5) "; or" and the following new paragraph: "(6) knowingly exports a hazardous waste identified or listed under this subtitle (A) without the consent of the receiving country or, (B) where there exists an international agreement between the United States and the government of the receiving country establishing notice, export, and enforcement procedures for the transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes, in a manner which is not in conformance with such agreement". DOMESTIC SEWAGE

SEC. 246. (a) Subtitle C of the Solid Wsiste Disposal Act is amended by adding the following new section after section 3017: "DOMESTIC SEWAGE

42 USC 6939. 42 USC 6921.

33 USC 1317.

"SEC. 3018. (a) REPORT.—The Administrator shall, not later than 15 months after the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, submit a report to the Congress concerning those substances identified or listed under section 3001 which are not regulated under this subtitle by reason of the exclusion for mixtures of domestic sewage and other wastes that pass through a sewer system to a publicly owned treatment works. Such report shall include the types, size and number of generators which dispose of such substances in this manner, the types and quantities disposed of in this manner, and the identification of significant generators, wastes, and weiste constituents not regulated under existing Federal law or regulated in a manner sufficient to protect human health and the environment. "(b) REVISIONS OF REGULATIONS.—Within eighteen months after submitting the report specified in subsection (a), the Administrator shall revise existing regulations and promulgate such additional regulations pursuant to this subtitle (or any other authority of the Administrator, including section 307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) as are necessary to assure that substances identified or listed under section 3001 which pass through a sewer system to a publicly owned treatment works are adequately controlled to protect human health and the environment. "(c) REPORT ON WASTEWATER LAGOONS.—The Administrator shall,

within thirty-six months after the date of the enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, submit a report to Congress concerning wastewater lagoons at publicly owned treatment works and their effect on groundwater quality. Such report shall include— "(1) the number and size of such lagoons; "(2) the types and quantities of waste contained in such lagoons; "(3) the extent to which such waste has been or may be released from such lagoons and contaminate ground water; and