Resource Conservation and Recovery Act information
Federal law in the United States
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Other short titles
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
Long title
An Act to provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste.
Acronyms (colloquial)
RCRA
Nicknames
Solid Waste Utilization Act
Enacted by
the 94th United States Congress
Effective
October 21, 1976
Citations
Public law
94-580
Statutes at Large
90 Stat. 2795
Codification
Acts amended
Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965
Titles amended
42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare
U.S.C. sections created
42 U.S.C. ch. 82 § 6901 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 2150 by Jennings Randolph (D–WV) on July 21, 1975
Committee consideration by Senate Public Works Committee; House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Passed the Senate on June 30, 1976 (88-3)
Passed the House on September 27, 1976 (367-8, in lieu of H.R. 14496) with amendment
Senate agreed to House amendment on September 30, 1976 (agreed)
Signed into law by President Gerald Ford on October 21, 1976
United States Supreme Court cases
City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey, 430 U.S. 141 (1977)
Hallstrom v. Tillamook County, 493 U.S. 20 (1990)
Department of Energy v. Ohio, 503 U.S. 607 (1992)
City of Chicago v. Environmental Defense Fund, 511 U.S. 328 (1994)
Meghrig v. KFC Western, Inc., 516 U.S. 479 (1996)
Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. 343 (2012)
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the principal federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.[1]
^United States. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 94–580, 90 Stat. 2795, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., October 21, 1976.
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