[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2654 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2654

 To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
   to exempt certain small landfills from the groundwater monitoring 
   requirements contained in landfill regulations promulgated by the 
                                Agency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 1993

Mr. Sarpalius (for himself, Mr. English of Oklahoma, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. 
 Roberts, Mr. Combest, Mr. Edwards of Texas, Mr. Laughlin, Mr. Andrews 
of Texas, Mr. Pete Geren of Texas, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Chapman, 
   Mr. Glickman, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. Volkmer, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. 
 Dooley, Mr. Orton, Mr. Penny, Mr. Hayes, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. McCurdy, Mr. 
Smith of Oregon, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. 
 Poshard, Mr. Dornan, Mr. Skeen, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Smith of 
    Texas, Mr. Williams, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Traficant, Mr. Stump, Mr. 
  Bonilla, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Hutto, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Pastor, Mr. 
   Barrett of Nebraska, Mr. Coleman, and Mr. Peterson of Minnesota) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
   to exempt certain small landfills from the groundwater monitoring 
   requirements contained in landfill regulations promulgated by the 
                                Agency.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO EXEMPT CERTAIN SMALL LANDFILLS FROM GROUND 
              WATER MONITORING REQUIREMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
              AGENCY LANDFILL REGULATIONS.

    Section 4010(c) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 
6949a(c)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Not later than March 31, 
        1988,'';
            (2) in the last sentence, by inserting ``, except as 
        provided in paragraph (2),'' before ``ground water 
        monitoring''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2)(A) The Administrator may exempt from the ground water 
monitoring requirement any facility--
            ``(i) at which less than 20 tons of municipal solid waste 
        is disposed of daily;
            ``(ii) at which there is no evidence of existing ground 
        water contamination from the facility; and
            ``(iii) which serves a community--
                    ``(I) that experiences an annual interruption of at 
                least 3 consecutive months of surface transportation 
                that prevents access to a regional waste management 
                facility; or
                    ``(II) that has no practicable waste management 
                alternative and is in an area that receives 25 inches 
                or less of precipitation annually.''.

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