[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 182 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 182

 To authorize Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to 
retain revenues from the sale of materials collected for the purpose of 
                   recycling, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 26 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. McConnell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to 
retain revenues from the sale of materials collected for the purpose of 
                   recycling, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This section may be cited as the ``Federal Recycling Incentive 
Act''.

2. RECYCLING.

    Subtitle F of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following:

                           ``federal agencies

    ``Sec. 6005. (a) Proceeds From Sale of Materials Collected for 
Recycling.--Any moneys received by any department, agency, or 
instrumentality from the sale of materials collected for the purpose of 
recycling shall be available for use by the department, agency or 
instrumentality of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of 
the Federal Government for activities within the legal authority of 
such entity. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with 
existing Federal programs within the Department of Defense to separate 
materials from solid waste for the purpose of recycling.
    ``(b) Report.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall annually report to the Congress with respect to the extent 
of compliance by each department, agency, and instrumentality of the 
executive, legislative, and judicial branches with the guidelines 
recommended under section 6907 of this title for the preceding twelve-
month period. Such report shall identify any such department, agency, 
and instrumentality which fails to comply, in whole or in part, with 
such guidelines. A copy of the report shall be published in the Federal 
Register.
    ``(c) Authorization.--For the purpose of enabling the Administrator 
of Environmental Protection Agency to carry out this section, there are 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary.''.

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