HR 2036 · 104th Congress · Environmental Protection
Land Disposal Program Flexibility Act of 1996
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EnactedLatest: Became Public Law No: 104-119.(1996-03-26)
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Land Disposal Program Flexibility Act of 1995 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to exempt from land disposal restrictions solid waste identified as hazardous based on characteristic alone, but which no longer exhibits such characteristic prior to land disposal, and which was so characterized: (1) as part of a treatment or disposal system prior to its discharge through a point source regulated under the Clean Water Act; (2) prior to and including injection into any Class I deep well regulated under safe drinking water provisions of the Public Health Service Act; or (3) under a zero-discharge system that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines to be engaging in Clean Water Act-equivalent treatment. Makes certain groundwater monitoring requirements inapplicable to new or existing municipal solid waste landfill units or lateral expansions of such units that dispose of fewer than 20 tons of municipal solid waste daily, based on an annual average, if: (1) there is no evidence of groundwater contamination from such units or expansions; and (2) the units or expansions serve a community that experiences an annual interruption of at least three consecuti…
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3 Democrats2 Republicans