[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2752 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2752

To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the transportation of 
solid waste from the State in which the waste was generated to another 
State for purposes of treatment, storage, or disposal, unless the State 
   in which the waste was generated has in effect a law prohibiting 
                   nonreturnable beverage containers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 1993

Mr. Carr of Michigan introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the transportation of 
solid waste from the State in which the waste was generated to another 
State for purposes of treatment, storage, or disposal, unless the State 
   in which the waste was generated has in effect a law prohibiting 
                   nonreturnable beverage containers.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Interstate Recycling Promotion 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SHIPPING WASTE OUTSIDE STATES WITHOUT BOTTLE 
              BILLS.

    (a) Prohibition.--(1) Subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6941 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new section:

``SEC. 0411. PROHIBITION ON SHIPMENT OF WASTE OUTSIDE CERTAIN STATES.

    ``It shall be lawful for any State to exclude from treatment, 
storage or disposal within its boundaries any quantity of solid waste 
from any other State which does not have, at a minimum, a substantially 
equivalent State law promoting or requiring the recycling of any 
portion of the solid waste products involved. Such laws shall include 
but not be limited to a law prohibiting the manufacture, sale or 
introduction into commerce of any nonreturnable beverage container with 
respect to which no reasonable refundable money deposit is required by 
consumer.''.
    (2) The table of contents for such Act is amended by inserting the 
following after the item relating to section 4010:

``Sec. 4011. Regulation on shipment of waste between certain States''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Section 4011 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, 
as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on January 1, 1994.

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