[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 22]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR255.1]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 255--IDENTIFICATION OF REGIONS AND AGENCIES FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT--
Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 255.1  Scope and purpose.


    (a) These guidelines are applicable to policies, procedures, and 
criteria for the identification of those areas which have common solid 
waste management problems and which are appropriate units for planning 
regional solid waste management services pursuant to section 4002(a) of 
the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act of 1976 (the Act). The guidelines also define and guide 
the identification of which functions will be carried out by which 
agencies pursuant to section 4006 of the Act.
    (b) The purposes of these guidelines are to (1) provide useful 
criteria for selecting the regions and agencies to be identified 
pursuant to section 4006 of the Act and (2) provide guidance for 
conducting the process which will result in formal identification of 
those regions and agencies.
    (c) Identifications made pursuant to these guidelines should be 
consistent with State solid waste management plans and strategies. A 
State strategy establishes: Goals for prevention of adverse effects on 
the environment resulting from improper solid waste disposal including 
protection of surface and ground water quality, air quality and the 
land; priorities among waste types; priorities among disposal practices; 
and the roles of existing agencies with responsibilities in solid waste 
management. The identification process should cover all waste types 
(residential and commercial solid waste, hazardous wastes, industrial 
sludges and pretreatment residues, municipal sewage sludge, air 
pollution control residue, septage, mining and agricultural waste, other 
industrial waste, and solid waste from community activities), all 
disposal practices (impoundments, pits, ponds, lagoons, landfills, 
dumps, land-spreading, and industrial leaching fields) and all 
technological approaches (conservation, recovery, incineration, 
disposal).

(Also sec. 4002(a), Pub. L. 94-580, 90 Stat. 2795 (42 U.S.C. 6942))