[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5288 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5288

To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit a certain requirement 
   from applying to out-of-State municipal solid waste generated and 
 disposed of within the same bi-State level A metropolitan statistical 
                                 area.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 1994

  Mr. Wheat 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 a certain requirement 
   from applying to out-of-State municipal solid waste generated and 
 disposed of within the same bi-State level A metropolitan statistical 
                                 area.

    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 ``Bi-State Waste Disposal Efficiency 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON APPLICATION OF CERTAIN REQUIREMENT TO CERTAIN 
              WASTE.

    (a) Prohibition.--The Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end of subtitle D the following new 
section:

``SEC. 4011. PROHIBITION ON APPLICATION OF CERTAIN REQUIREMENT TO 
              CERTAIN WASTE.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any requirement in a 
Federal law that an owner or operator of a landfill or incinerator 
obtain authorization to receive out-of-State municipal solid waste 
shall not apply if the out-of-State waste is generated within, and the 
landfill or incinerator is located within, the same bi-State level A 
metropolitan statistical area (as defined by the Office of Management 
and Budget and as listed by the Office of Management and Budget as of 
the date of the enactment of this section) which contains two 
contiguous major cities each of which is in a different State.''.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--The table of contents for subtitle D of 
such Act is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``Sec. 4011. Prohibition on application of certain requirement to 
                            certain waste.''.
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